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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Suffering
Free
Ends
Every
Mind
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
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When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.
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You are the effect of your story, that's all.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?
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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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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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