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I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Intimate
Free
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People

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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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What we believe, we see.
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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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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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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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