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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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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Nothing
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Believe

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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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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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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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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.
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It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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There is no mistake in nature.
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