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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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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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