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The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Causes
Suffering
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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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We don't attach to people or to things we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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When a thought appears such as Do the dishes and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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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 Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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