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

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Katie
Simple
Happens
Everything
Life

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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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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 someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.
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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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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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