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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Comprehending
Understand
Thinking

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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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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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My experience is the opposite.
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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.
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When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
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