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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
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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All sadness is a tantrum.
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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