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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Humans
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The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.
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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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