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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Life
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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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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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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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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I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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We don't attach to people or to things we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
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all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
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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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