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No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
Byron Katie
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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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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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Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.
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I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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No one can hurt me - that's my job.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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It's very benign, it seems, to think, There's a tree. In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world. We begin to think, Who am I in a world without trees?
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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