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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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Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
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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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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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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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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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Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
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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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Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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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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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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The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: Is this what I really want?
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Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
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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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Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
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