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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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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Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.
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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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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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Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
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You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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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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The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
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Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
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Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
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See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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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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