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Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
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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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Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
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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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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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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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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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As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
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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 heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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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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Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.
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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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Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
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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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Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
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It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
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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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The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
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