Inspirational Quotes From Guy Finley
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Who you really are can't be overwhelmed by what you realize within yourself as being a part of yourself, any more than an ocean can be washed away by one of its own waves. (5/13/12)
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Once you realize that you can't separate some imagined fear from the level of self that believes in what it has imagined, you are near the end of your fears. (5/11/12)
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The sky can't fall from its heights. The ocean can't move against itself. Your true nature is as the sky and sea to all that passes through it. (5/9/12)
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The longer you dwell on some dark thought or feeling, the deeper the special kind of hell you get to experience as the cost of imagining -- and then identifying with -- a false sense of "I" that not only believes in the world it has created for itself, but that no other world exists. (5/6/12)
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Agreeing to walk into the "flames" of resistance is the only way to find real and lasting freedom from their illusory nature. (5/4/12)
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The love we have for anything holy or true is already present (within our heart)... before we can think of any reason for this love that we feel. To know this truth from yourself is to also understand why -- if you stay true to this love -- you can't fail to find it... and to realize it as your own. (5/2/12)
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Part 1
You can no more separate a painful pattern in your life from the unseen part of yourself responsible for its return... than you can blame your face for the unhappiness you see upon it while looking in the mirror.
Part 2
If we want "all there is" -- the full measure of love, joy, a life without limitation -- then we must learn what it means to accept all there is - even when life offers us something that we don't want. (4/29/12)
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Whatever seems to be in the way of your happiness must be realized as being a part of the way or... you're going the wrong way. (4/27/12)
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Praying to change the world around us is pointless until we realize that the world around us is the way it is... because we are the way we are; only in the realization of this truth -- and the sacrifices inherent in its revelation -- is there hope for both the world, as well as for ourselves. (4/25/12)
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The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of yourself feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect yourself when, in truth, it's actually the mechanical action of the unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it ought to be. (4/22/12)
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What you're really weary of struggling with is the weight of unseen resistance, and not the unwanted condition you imagine needs to be resisted. (4/20/12)
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Unattended thoughts are thieves; not only do they sneak in and steal your attention in exchange for the thrilling, but fleeting sensations they provide, but then they turn around and sell you "insurance:" more thoughts promising to protect you from the inevitable sense of loss that always comes with having identified with an illusion. (4/18/12)
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The more we dwell on something we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in are the dark waves of our own uninvestigated consciousness. (4/15/12)
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The rush to judge some character flaw in another human being is one and the same as the speed with which the false self races to hide from itself a similar imperfection. (4/13/12)
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The work of reclaiming your life begins with realizing that giving it away just doesn't work! (4/11/12)
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Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. Self-knowledge serves one purpose: awakening to the truth of one's self. Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying to oneself serves one purpose: rebirth. And rebirth is... the purpose and fulfillment of all relationships. (4/8/12)
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Any happiness we feel over the pain that someone else goes through -- regardless of who or why -- insures we remain a blind prisoner of the fact that hidden within our present idea of happiness also lies the source of our suffering. (4/6/12)
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Being present to yourself is... the highest form of productivity. (4/4/12)
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It's an eternal law: everything is always becoming something else; real life is ceaseless transformation expressed through infinite forms. But within us lives the sleeping seed of a celestial Self that alone can see -- in spite of all evidence to the contrary -- nothing really changes. (4/1/12)
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Here's the real reason why talking to yourself about what you resent in someone, or otherwise resist about some event is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing. (3/30/12)
