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Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

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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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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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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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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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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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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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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Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
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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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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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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.
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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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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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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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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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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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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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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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Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
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Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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