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If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Son
Okay
Dying
Least
Enlightened
Cancer

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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.
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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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Who would you be without your story?
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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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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
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My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
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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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It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
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The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.
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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 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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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.
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