"One way to measure your own fears..." - Quote by Guy Finley
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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“Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"”
“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.”
“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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“I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear”
“What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.”
“I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
More on Self Awareness
“What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.”
“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”
“If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.”