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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Intimate
Free
Enough
Love
People

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There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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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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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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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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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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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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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
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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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