"Before we can ever learn to love one……" — Guy Finley
"Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly."
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144 Quotes by Guy Finley
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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure.…
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
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Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is…
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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
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What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at…
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way…
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Love is effortless attention.
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The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
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No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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