Guy Finley Quotes - Page 3

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

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 one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

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.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

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.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

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

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

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.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

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.

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.

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