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Guy Finley
21 quotes
“Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment.”
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“Whatever forms your resentments may take, they wreck only you, not the one you resent.”
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“Nothing in the universe can hold down that rare individual who clearly realizes that he or she dosen't know what's in the way of his or her happiness, but who is willing to find out.”
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“The way you answer life's events, and what you experience as your life, are really one.”
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“Let's look at ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible and where, as a result of our misunderstanding, we are still sowing and reaping the harvest of frustration and headache:”
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“Our Real Self is a ceaseless, ever-changing, and vital expression of eternal energies, even though this timeless nature remains veiled from us because of our present level of consciousness.”
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“We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized.”
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“What we find in life is based on where we put our attention. When we focus on the small worlds our thoughts create, we miss out on the beauty and possibilities we are meant to enjoy.”
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“An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.”
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“Consciously giving up the last word is a secret prayer because the you that wants the last word isn't really you at all...it's that dark spirit of one-upmanship, that dark spirit of combativeness.”
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“No man is powerful as long as power is his need.”
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“Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?”
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“It's impossible to discover who you really are if you limit what you are willing to find out about yourself to only what you want to know.”
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“Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.”
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“There is no natural place inside of a human being for negative states. None. So if you're negative, frightened, worried, anxious, fearful, it's because you have bought into the work of the image, who shows you what it needs to show you so that you can be the person who now has to hate your condition.”
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“We are not here to learn to play, we are here to play to learn.”
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“...and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.”
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“A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have.”
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“You are going to have to struggle with something that you have never struggled with before. I am talking to you about it now. I am talking to you about the fact that your whole life to date has been in an effort to control what you see as being finite. The whole of life for human beings, predicated on the idea that one must acquire power in order to overpower conditions that will not give them what they say they need in order to have a fixed sense of security and well-being.”
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“Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.”
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“Every wall that I run in to is what I have yet to understand about myself and this life, and there is no other wall, none.”
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