Guy Finley Quotes

Let's look at ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible and where, as a result of our misunderstanding, we are still sowing and reaping the harvest of frustration and headache:

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.

A prisoner mentality is anything that blames anything outside of you for the pain you have.

...and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.

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.

Whatever forms your resentments may take, they wreck only you, not the one you resent.

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.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.

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.

Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?

There is no natural place inside of a human being for negative states. None. So if you're negative, frightened, worried, anxious, fearful, it's because you have bought into the work of the image, who shows you what it needs to show you so that you can be the person who now has to hate your condition.

We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized.

The way you answer life's events, and what you experience as your life, are really one.

No man is powerful as long as power is his need.

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.