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I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
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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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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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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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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Personalities don't love. They want something.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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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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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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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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