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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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