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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.
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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.
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My experience is the opposite.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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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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Even breathing is a contribution.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, Who cares if you're enlightened forever?
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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
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My life is a contribution.
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.
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It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.
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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.
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