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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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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 ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.
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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
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The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.
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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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If you argue against reality you will suffer.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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