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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
Simple
Happens
Everything
Life
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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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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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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My experience is the opposite.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
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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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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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Even breathing is a contribution.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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