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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Katie
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Wisdom
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