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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Craziness
Thoughts
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World

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