Inspirational Quotes From Guy Finley
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Half measures produce half results, and half results are one and the same as lessons only half learned. Lessons half learned guarantee you're halfway there, once again, to repeating those lessons in your life that you have yet to learn! (2/3/12)
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Allowing anything to eat at you -- by consenting to sit at the "table of torment" -- serves nothing... save the dark and hungry ghost of some past pain that lives only to consume negative energy. (2/1/12)
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The worlds you see before your eyes are but a fraction of the whole; to behold Reality requires being (it). (1/29/12)
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Starting life over begins with bringing a conscious end to all lingering relationships you may have with old thoughts and feelings that want you to keep seeing your life through their eyes. (1/27/12)
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You cannot do the work of starting life over, and be busy reliving your past at the same time. Being new is a deliberate choice, an act of alignment that places you in conscious contact with a living presence that's incapable of repeating itself. (1/25/12)
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Just as the Light of Truth is timeless, so too are its Laws; the soul that learns to reflect this goodness, and to embody its virtue, never perishes. (1/22/12)
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The way to ensure that your suffering goes on unabated is to just keep talking to yourself about it! (1/20/12)
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Only through our willingness to be made aware of all that we are -- high and low, light and dark -- will we ever come to realize the perfect freedom now lying dormant in our own celestial possibilities. (1/18/12)
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The repetition of patterns, even painful ones, is a form of safety to the sleeping mind because therein it can rest -- within the continuation of the known -- even when it doesn't like being there! (1/15/12)
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One sure way to guarantee that you'll continue rushing through the present moment is to cling to the false belief that you can escape unwanted thoughts and feelings by trying to run away from them. (1/13/12)
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The only way it's possible -- psychologically speaking -- to have the painful experience of feeling like someone, or something is standing between you and your happiness, is if you are inwardly divided. (1/11/12)
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Resistance recreates and then reinstates whatever it opposes, including the sleeping level of self that tries, in vain, to escape the pain of the opposing forces that created it. (1/8/12)
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Since you would never willingly allow someone else to denigrate your name -- or otherwise call you something ugly -- then why do you accept within you the painful presence of some dark unseen character that likes to do the same? (1/6/12)
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Part 1
On any battlefield, a good general always wants command of the higher ground because he knows it leads to victory. In (our) spiritual battles, being one with the higher ground is the victory.
Part 2
The following holds true in all worlds, exterior and interior: the greater the clarity of what one needs to do to succeed with what's been envisioned, the more likely is that success to come. (1/4/12)
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Negative self-talk -- turning on yourself with a vengeance -- seems to prove the presence of an innocent "you" -- someone (who is) superior to the inferior character you condemn (in yourself). But hating and berating yourself is actually the avoidance of seeing yourself as you are in that moment. All forms of dark dialogue serve an unconscious and divided level of self whose purpose is to create the illusion that there's a difference between the judge, and the judged. There is not; they are one and the same... Which explains, in part, the timeless teaching, "Judge not that ye be not judged." (1/1/12)
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Your best possible guarantee for a brighter tomorrow is found within the dedicated inner work you do today to welcome the Light of higher self-understanding. (12/30/11)
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First, creation groans, then it celebrates. (12/28/11)
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As surely as the beauty and fragrance of summer's first rose waits in the silence of her still dormant seed, within me sleeps the eternal flowering of (what) I am. (12/25/11)
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The pain of impatience doesn't exist without some unseen level of self, already in place, that secretly demands events must take place precisely as it has imagined they should. (12/23/11)
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The true purpose of any troublesome "mountain" that seems to appear out of nowhere -- standing directly between us and what we want -- isn't to make us into better climbers, or even to somehow claim its summit; such barriers exist for a single reason: to help us see that no impassable "mountain" exists apart from the unconscious mind that creates it. (12/21/11)
