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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Life
Lecturer
Believing
Suffer
Suffering
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Happens
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