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Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
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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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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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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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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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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 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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Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
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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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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
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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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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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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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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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