Guy Finley Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Guy Finley
Guy Finley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.
One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"
Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
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.
The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
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.
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is ... you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.
Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.
Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.