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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.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
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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.
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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
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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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If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
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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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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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Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.
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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
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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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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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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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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
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Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
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Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
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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!
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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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