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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

Byron Katie

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Imagined
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Future
Fear
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Always
Unquestioned

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