Top 167 Quotes & Sayings by Guy Finley - Page 3

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

The Peace you long for also longs 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.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

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.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

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.

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

Love is effortless attention.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

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.

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. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

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

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.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. 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. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Walk lightly through life.

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

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 secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.