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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Identify
Wake
Painful
Question
Else
Thought

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All sadness is a tantrum.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Personalities don't love. They want something.
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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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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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