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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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Implies
Enlightened
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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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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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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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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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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Who would you be without the thought I need more money to be safe? You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.
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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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It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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