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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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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
Philosopher
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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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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
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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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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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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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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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Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
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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 change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
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Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
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Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
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The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
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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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The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
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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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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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