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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Nature
Everything
Mind

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