Top 100 Guy Finley Quotes
#1. The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.
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#2. Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
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#3. 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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#4. You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done ... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.
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#5. All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
Guy Finley
#6. The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
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#7. Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
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#8. What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
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#9. Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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#10. 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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#11. The Peace you long for also longs for you.
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#12. Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
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#13. Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
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#14. The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
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#19. To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.
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#20. 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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#21. Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
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#25. What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.
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#26. My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.
Michael Finley
#27. 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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#28. False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.
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#29. Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.
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#30. There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
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#31. If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
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#32. 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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#33. If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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#39. The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.
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#40. 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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#41. Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.
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#42. All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
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#43. Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
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#44. Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
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#45. What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.
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#46. No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
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#47. A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.
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#48. Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
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#49. When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate ... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
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#50. 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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#51. Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
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#52. One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
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#53. Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
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#54. Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
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#55. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
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#56. 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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#57. We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.
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#58. 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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#59. The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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#60. Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
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#61. The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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#62. We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer ... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
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#63. Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
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#64. Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
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#65. Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
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#66. 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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#67. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself
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#68. Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
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#72. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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#73. The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
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#74. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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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#77. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
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#78. You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
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#79. We are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.
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#80. 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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#81. Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
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#82. Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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.
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#86. 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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#87. The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
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#88. The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People
Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
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#89. As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.
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#90. 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?
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#91. Never again help anyone to feel as though they have a right to feel badly.
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#92. No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
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#93. The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
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#94. Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
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#95. Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
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#96. Real achievement
the true measure of how far we have advanced in life
is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.
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#97. Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.
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#98. Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
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#99. The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
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#100. You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.
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