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

Byron Katie

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Wake
Painful
Question
Else
Thought
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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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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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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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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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It's not your job to like me - it's mine
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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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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If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.
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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
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Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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Who would you be without the thought I need more money to be safe? You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.
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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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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think.
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Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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