Guy Finley Quotes

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Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

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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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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 must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

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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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The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

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We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

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It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

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Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

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Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

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We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

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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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To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

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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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Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

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What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

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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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Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

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Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

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Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

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Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?

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You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

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You are going to have to struggle with something that you have never struggled with before. I am talking to you about it now. I am talking to you about the fact that your whole life to date has been in an effort to control what you see as being finite. The whole of life for human beings, predicated on the idea that one must acquire power in order to overpower conditions that will not give them what they say they need in order to have a fixed sense of security and well-being.

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Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.

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It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

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What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

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... and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.

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Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

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