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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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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Katie
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Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.
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Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
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I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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No one can hurt me - that's my job.
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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
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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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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
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When a thought appears such as Do the dishes and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
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