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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.

Byron Katie

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing out there is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
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Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
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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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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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