Guy Finley Quotes - Page 5

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

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.

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

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

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

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

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

The Peace you long for also longs for you.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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