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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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The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
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Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
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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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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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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 reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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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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Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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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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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.
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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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Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
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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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Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.
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Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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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.
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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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