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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.

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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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All sadness is a tantrum.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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No one can give you freedom but you.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Who would you be without the thought I need more money to be safe? You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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