Inspirational Quotes From Guy Finley
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Part 1
Stillness is the first action of truth. Stillness has no momentum, which means it never runs into anything. On the other hand, since all movement has its beginning in stillness, anything that moves into it is found to have simply returned to its original source.
Part 2
Wholeness is a living state; it is the vital creative expression of ceaseless perfection as revealed each moment; (it is) not a static condition -- as in the imagined, but false idea of some eternal sense of personal satisfaction. (9/30/12)
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Your susceptibility to flattery is inseparable from the suffering you go through whenever you hear that someone may dislike you even when you couldn't care less about the person involved. (9/28/12)
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The work to become increasingly conscious of whatever impediments remain concealed within you is the cost of reclaiming your spiritual freedom. (9/26/12)
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When living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that you have been in favor of discovering all that you are yet to be. (9/23/12)
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Whether to aspire or to despair, that is the question and which of these seeds flowers all depends upon which one you choose to grow. (9/21/12)
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A single ounce of what is real can't be moved by a ton of what is not; only by learning to stand within yourself -- daring to be yourself -- will you ever discover that whatever it is within you that is always describing you, defining you -- telling you who you are -- does so for one reason only: to first tempt, and then to drag you into its world... where you are then ruled by whatever dream that it has dreamt up for you. (9/19/12)
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You can't be "ready" for any real moment of self-transformation. You can only be brought into an awareness of its immediate possibility, and then agree, or not, with its process. (9/16/12)
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There's only one way to uncover the dark nature of what's always trying to protect itself from life's most important lessons and the higher self-corrections they provide: you must stop agreeing to take its side. (9/14/12)
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When you finally see that you can have almost anything in the world that you want, but that nothing you give to yourself actually brings an end to your wanting, then you'll slowly cease giving yourself to this painful nature that lives to want... which turns out to be what you really wanted all along. (9/12/12)
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Whoever doesn't know himself, suffers unwillingly for the sake of ignorance. Whoever works to know himself, agrees to suffer for the sake of Wisdom. Whoever becomes Wise, slays the suffering born of ignorance. And whoever transcends the suffering born of ignorance shares in the birth and burden of creation, in which can be found no greater peace or joy. (9/9/12)
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This is everything you need to know if you wish to know the Truth that sets you free: it's impossible to talk to yourself and be true to yourself at the same time. (9/7/12)
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The living now is a timeless Presence; it is neither the outcome of the past, nor a door to some imagined future. Passing time is just one of the ways in which that which is always present appears, but this apparent movement of time no more defines or confines Real Life than the rising and setting of the sun changes the nature of light. (9/5/12)
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We've come to know quite a bit about the nature of the invisible forces that govern this world through which we move, but we understand almost nothing about the unseen forces that move through us. (9/2/12)
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The smaller one's character, the bigger the shadow it casts. (8/31/12)
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The true interior, spiritual life is not for people looking for ways to be happy; it's for those who have started to realize that they've never known the real nature of happiness. (8/29/12)
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As surely as an abandoned home is slowly taken over by invasive forms that have nothing to do with its original purpose for being built, so too does the unattended mind become a house of lower forces whose unconscious nature makes impossible the entrance of any higher presence. (8/26/12)
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Who you really are can't be threatened by some seemingly dark moment in life any more than the sun trembles because a cold wind is blowing somewhere on earth. (8/24/12)
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Rushing through anything is a sure sign that you neither understand what you're doing in the moment, nor why you are actually doing it. Getting anxious over any task is proof that you don't know who you are. (8/22/12)
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Part 1
We are meant to consciously serve, moment to moment, the Light of Life that ceaselessly introduces us to ourselves, not live in unconscious servitude to the nature of that (passing) character to which we are introduced.
Part 2
When living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that you have been in favor of discovering all that you are yet to be. (8/19/12)
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The failure to reconcile what disturbs you about the world around you, while averting your eyes from the world within you, is very much like continuing to overeat... and then blaming your stomach for getting upset. (8/17/12)
