Guy Finley quotes - page 4

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body! (Guy Finley)
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer. View quote
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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. View quote
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Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. View quote
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The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment. View quote
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One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be. View quote
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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. View quote
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Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. View quote
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Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides. (Guy Finley)
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows. View quote
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Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life. View quote
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Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life. View quote
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Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life? View quote
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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you. View quote
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The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed. View quote
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The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep. (Guy Finley)
We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. View quote
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