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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!
Guy Finley
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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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More quotes by Guy Finley
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
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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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Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
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Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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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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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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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be still quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
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Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
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An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
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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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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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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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Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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