Guy Finley Quotes
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
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.
As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
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.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
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.
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon 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.
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.
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.
No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
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.
To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.
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.
Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
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.
No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
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.
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.
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.
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!
Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"
What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.