Guy Finley

Guy Finley
Guy Finleyis an American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 February 1949
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational love-is about-yourself
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
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Love is effortless attention.
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Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
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Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
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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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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its darksleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place youwant to leave.
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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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We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
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Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.
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Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
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What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
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Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
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Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.