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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Authentic
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Suffering
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.
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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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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
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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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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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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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All sadness is a tantrum.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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