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If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Life
Terror
Son
Thoughts
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What we believe, we see.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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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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Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.
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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.
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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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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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