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You are the effect of your story, that's all.

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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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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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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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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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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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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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Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
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In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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My life is a contribution.
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If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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