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Letting Go with Guy Finley

The only sure way to drop a problem is to never pick it up in the first place.

When you know in your heart that you must keep going but your feet just aren’t getting the message, self-understanding can open and carry you through doors that self-insistence cannot. The key to leaving behind our self-created and self-limited world is found in our willingness to keep going, even when it “feels” like something bad…

Only the person who never gives up in life, who persists with his wish to find and fulfill the promise of himself, makes this truly self-liberating discovery: those places that he once mistook as being impassible barriers to his happiness become as bridges to the same, but only if he learns to welcome them as…

The crowning moment of any species, the culmination of its possibilities, can’t be just its ability to adapt and survive. Natural history demonstrates that entire populations peak and are then terminated whenever Mother Nature so decides. The great book of life simply closes out one chapter of creation after another once it no longer serves…

When you realize, at last, that there is no place in life toward which you are racing that is not already disappearing, and that there is no place where you willingly remain that isn’t always beginning anew within itself, then you will have at last arrived where your Heart of hearts longs to be.  …

The real reason why we must be willing to do the needed work for self-change is because we become what we despise about ourselves if we don’t change. To see the truth of this gives us reason, will, and courage sufficient to go through our resistance to change.

If we wish for new understanding to come into our hearts we must learn to wait in the right place…

It is only what you do right now that is the seed of change. Your conscious choice for real change in the present moment automatically cancels the need for a better you in a better future. All will be better for you now, which is the only time it really matters!

Our prayer for the true, new life is at last empowered when we cease wasting our powers on wanting power over anything save ourselves…

Question: Most of us have made drastic changes trying to make a fresh start in life, and yet no matter what we do, we always end up feeling the same way. The outer conditions may be different, but inside we’re still the same. We know that changing the outside condition isn’t really going to give…
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