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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Identify
Wake
Painful
Question
Else
Thought

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As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing out there is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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My life is a contribution.
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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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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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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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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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Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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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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