Best 137 quotes of Guy Finley on MyQuotes

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

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.

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

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

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.

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

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

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.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

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

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.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

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.

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.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

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.

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.

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.

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

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

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

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

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

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

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's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

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.