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Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Love
Effortless
Irresistible
Clear
Action
Kind

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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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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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In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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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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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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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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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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