Quotes by Guy Finley

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Guy Finley is an American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician.
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Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Guy Finley

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is i...

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Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

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Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It'...

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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 ...

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It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

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Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

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All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

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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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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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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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Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and sum...

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When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

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All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

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Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

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It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameGuy Finley
  • DescriptionAmerican self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
  • BornFebruary 22, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Songwriter; Musician