Guy Finley Quotes - Page 4

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

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.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

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

Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

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

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

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

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?

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

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.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

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.

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

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

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?

To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.