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You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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 vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
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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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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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Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
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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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A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.
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I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.
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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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Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
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In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
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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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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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If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.
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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.
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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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Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
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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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