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Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Peace doesn't require two people it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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What we believe, we see.
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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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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.
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I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
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It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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