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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
Everyone
Would
Begins
Outside
Inside
Wants
Knew
Peace

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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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No one can hurt me - that's my job.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
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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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Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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