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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Love
Monsters
Avoid
Forward
Universe
Joins
Doesn
Exclude
Anything
Monster
Everything
Nightmare
Looks
Appears

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