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I like to say it was born out of laughter.

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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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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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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
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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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Peace doesn't require two people it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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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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People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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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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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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Joy is a natural way of being.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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