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

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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 realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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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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A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.
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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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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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When a thought appears such as Do the dishes and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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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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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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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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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
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