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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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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 next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: Is this what I really want?
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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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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
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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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Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
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You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
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To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
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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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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
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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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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
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Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
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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 yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?
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Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
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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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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
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