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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

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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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Imagination
Everyone
Life

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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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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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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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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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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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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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If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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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 love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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