Top 15 Guy Finley Quotes

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.

Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.

You are going to have to struggle with something that you have never struggled with before. I am talking to you about it now. I am talking to you about the fact that your whole life to date has been in an effort to control what you see as being finite. The whole of life for human beings, predicated on the idea that one must acquire power in order to overpower conditions that will not give them what they say they need in order to have a fixed sense of security and well-being.

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.

We are not here to learn to play, we are here to play to learn.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.

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.

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