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Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
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Listening to your own mind gives you good reasons why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!
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Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
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Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
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It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.
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Be still quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
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Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
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Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
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Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
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It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
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The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
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We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
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The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
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The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.
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It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
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The only world in which defeat exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.
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What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
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