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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Everything
Life
Katie
Simple
Happens

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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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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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We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.
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There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
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All sadness is a tantrum.
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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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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
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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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No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
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