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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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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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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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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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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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My experience is the opposite.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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