Guy Finley Quotes

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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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We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

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Consciously giving up the last word is a secret prayer because the you that wants the last word isn't really you at all... it's that dark spirit of one-upmanship, that dark spirit of combativeness.

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Our Real Self is a ceaseless, ever-changing, and vital expression of eternal energies, even though this timeless nature remains veiled from us because of our present level of consciousness.

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As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

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An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.

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The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

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Nothing in the universe can hold down that rare individual who clearly realizes that he or she dosen't know what's in the way of his or her happiness, but who is willing to find out.

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Whatever forms your resentments may take, they wreck only you, not the one you resent.

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The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

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There is no natural place inside of a human being for negative states. None. So if you're negative, frightened, worried, anxious, fearful, it's because you have bought into the work of the image, who shows you what it needs to show you so that you can be the person who now has to hate your condition.

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Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment.

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Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

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You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

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Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

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Let's look at ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible and where, as a result of our misunderstanding, we are still sowing and reaping the harvest of frustration and headache:
1. It is impossible to make others see where they have made a mistake.

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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

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No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

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Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

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We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized.

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The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

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The way you answer life's events, and what you experience as your life, are really one.

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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

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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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Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

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