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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, Who cares if you're enlightened forever?
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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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 was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.
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One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.
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I like to say it was born out of laughter.
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