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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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The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
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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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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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Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
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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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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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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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Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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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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One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
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What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
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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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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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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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All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
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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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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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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.
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A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.
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