Guy Finley Quotes
born 1949 United States
Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician.
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No man is powerful as long as power is his need.
The way you answer life's events, and what you experience as your life, are really one.
Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment.
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.
A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have.
Whatever forms your resentments may take, they wreck only you, not the one you resent.
Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?
We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized.
We are not here to learn to play, we are here to play to learn.
Nothing in the universe can hold down that rare individual who clearly realizes that he or she dosen't know what's in the way of his or her happiness, but who is willing to find out.
Every wall that I run in to is what I have yet to understand about myself and this life, and there is no other wall, none.
It's impossible to discover who you really are if you limit what you are willing to find out about yourself to only what you want to know.
Our Real Self is a ceaseless, ever-changing, and vital expression of eternal energies, even though this timeless nature remains veiled from us because of our present level of consciousness.
...and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.
Consciously giving up the last word is a secret prayer because the you that wants the last word isn't really you at all...it's that dark spirit of one-upmanship, that dark spirit of combativeness.
Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.
What we find in life is based on where we put our attention. When we focus on the small worlds our thoughts create, we miss out on the beauty and possibilities we are meant to enjoy.