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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.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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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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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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Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
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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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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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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
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