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Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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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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Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?
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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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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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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts 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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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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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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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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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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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
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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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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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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.
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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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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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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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