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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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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 moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
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'I don't know' is my favorite position.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.
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