"The only world in which "defeat" exists..." - Quote by Guy Finley
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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“Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.”
“When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.”
“Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.”
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“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”
“Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.”
“It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.”
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“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
“How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.”