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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Equals
Dead
Ends
Best
Thinking

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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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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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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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