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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
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Wake
Painful
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Thought

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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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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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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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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 mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.
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I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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All sadness is a tantrum.
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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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