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Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Personalities
Personality
Asks
Nothing
Something
Love

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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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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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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
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You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
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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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The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom.
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
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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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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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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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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.
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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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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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