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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
Enlightened
Cancer
Son
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Dying
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The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
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Who would you be without your story?
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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I like to say it was born out of laughter.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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We don’t attach to things we attach to our stories about them.
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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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