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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
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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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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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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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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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It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
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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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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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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.
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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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Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
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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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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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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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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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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 belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
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The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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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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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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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
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