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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.
Byron Katie
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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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