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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!

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
Philosopher
Radio Personality
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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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The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
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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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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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Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
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Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
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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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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
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One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
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No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.
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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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The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
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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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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.
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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
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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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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
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