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We cannot see what we don't believe.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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No one can hurt me - that's my job.
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My life is a contribution.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
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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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If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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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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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.
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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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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
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Who would you be without the thought I need more money to be safe? You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.
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A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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