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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
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Life
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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