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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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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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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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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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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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Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
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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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To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
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It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
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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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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
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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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Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
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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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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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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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The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
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