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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

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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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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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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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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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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
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I shouldn't steal in this world.
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There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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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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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
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There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
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