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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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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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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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I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
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You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
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A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
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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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It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.
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When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.
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If you argue against reality you will suffer.
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