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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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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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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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Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
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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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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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It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
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