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Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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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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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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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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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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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Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
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Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
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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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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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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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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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An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
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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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Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
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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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If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
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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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