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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

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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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Enlightened
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Reality

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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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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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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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