Guy Finley Quotes
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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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Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
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We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
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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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Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.
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Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
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No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.
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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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Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
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Love is effortless attention.
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In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.
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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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Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!
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Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
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See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
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We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.
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Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender
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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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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.
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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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Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
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We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.
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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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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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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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The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
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The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.
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Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
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Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
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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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