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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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Your Understanding Of Another

Byron Katie

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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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The Nature Of Mind Is That It Loves Everything Once It Loves Itself, Just As It Opposes Everything When It Opposes Itself.

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With Inquiry, Every Painful Story Unravels. Freedom Is Possible In Every Moment.

People Who Believe Their Unquestioned Thoughts Cannot See What Is Obvious And Directly In Front Of Their Faces At All Times, Because They Are Invested In What They Believe To Be True. As Long As They Live Out Of An Unquestioned Mind, They Must Continue To Argue With What They Believe Is Happening Rather Than The Reality Of What Is Really Happening.

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Reality Is Always Kinder Than Your Thinking.

Those Questions - When You Think About A Thought, When You're Believing A Thought Or Concept And You Question It - You Realize That It Changes Things. Every Cell In Your Body Is Awake With Inquiry.

Everyone Wants Peace, Inside And Outside, And We Would All Have It If We Knew How. Now We Know How. It Begins With You.

Nothing Comes Ahead Of Its Time, And Nothing Ever Happened That Didn't Need To Happen.

I Like To Say Understanding Is The Power.

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If I Want Something, I Go Get It. Anything That I Believe Will Stop Me, I Question.

Thoughts Are Just What Is. They Appear. They're Innocent. They're Not Personal.

People Don't Need Sudden Revelations. They Get What They Need When They Need It, Thought By Thought By Thought. It's A Constant Thing When The Mind Starts To Wake Up To Itself.

So, How Do You Get Back To Heaven? To Begin With, Just Notice The Thoughts That Take You Away From It. You Don't Have To Believe Everything Your Thoughts Tell You. Just Become Familiar With The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness. It May Seem Strange At First To Get To Know Yourself In This Way, But Becoming Familiar With Your Stressful Thoughts Will Show You The Way Home To Everything You Need.

The World Is Nothing But My Perception Of It. I See Only Through Myself. I Hear Only Through The Filter Of My Story.

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.

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.

If Your Beliefs Are Stressful And You Question Them, You Come To See That They Aren't True - Whereas Prior To Questioning, You Absolutely Believe Them. How Can You Live In Joy When You're Believing Thoughts That Bring On Sadness, Frustration, Anger, Alienation, And Loneliness?

We Are Never Really In Control. We Just Think We Are When Things Happen To Be Going Our Way.

Peace Doesn't Require Two People; It Requires Only One. It Has To Be You. The Problem Begins And Ends There.

If You Are Mentally Somewhere Else, You Miss Real Life

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