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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

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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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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
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Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
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You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.
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We don't attach to people or to things we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Even breathing is a contribution.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
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If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
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If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
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