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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

Byron Katie

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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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Life
Wake
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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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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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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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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If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
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I shouldn't steal in this world.
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I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
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If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.
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Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
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