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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
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Personalities
Personality
Asks
Nothing
Something
Love

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Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
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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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Joy is a natural way of being.
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Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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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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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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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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But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
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