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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Inside
Wants
Knew
Peace
Everyone
Would
Begins
Outside

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