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'I don't know' is my favorite position.

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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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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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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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I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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It's very benign, it seems, to think, There's a tree. In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world. We begin to think, Who am I in a world without trees?
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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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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When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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