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Who would you be without your story?

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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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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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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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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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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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How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?
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When a thought appears such as Do the dishes and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.
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The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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