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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Harmless
Unless
Thought
Believe

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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
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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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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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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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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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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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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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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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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.
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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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I like to say it was born out of laughter.
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
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