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Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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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The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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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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Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
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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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Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
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It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.
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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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The only world in which defeat exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.
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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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If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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