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Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

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
Personalities
Personality
Asks
Nothing
Something
Love

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No one can hurt me - that's my job.
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It's very benign, it seems, to think, There's a tree. In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world. We begin to think, Who am I in a world without trees?
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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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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Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
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I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
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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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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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