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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: 82
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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If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
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My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think.
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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
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My life is a contribution.
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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
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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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