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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
Philosopher
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The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
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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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Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
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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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Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
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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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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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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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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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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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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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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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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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An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
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We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
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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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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
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Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
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Be still quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
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