Guy Finley Quotes - Page 6

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

Love is effortless attention.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

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

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.

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

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

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.

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

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.

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

Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.