Quotes from Guy Finley

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off.

the less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

Never again help anyone to feel as though they have a right to feel badly.

When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.

But you can't be saying I should walk away from everything I have worked for all my life? No, I am not. What I am saying is that we need to take a much closer look at what we have been calling our life. To what purpose? To see if it is really ours. Once we know what is authentically our own, then we also know what to keep and protect and what to let go.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

Never speak out of anger, never act out of fear, never choose from impatience, but wait...and peace will appear.

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken-

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken (- Robert Frost-)

Our problem is that we're sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.

Geride b?rakmak için, önce baÄŸlan?p kalman?n art?k iÅŸe yaramad???n? kavramam?z gerekir

Umutsuzca mutlulu?u aramak, mutsuzlu?un devam?d?r.

Kimse parçalanmay? seçmez, mutluluk hakk?ndaki düÅŸünceleri paramparça olmad??? sürece.

Sizi inciten her neyse, onu ba?kas?na yapmay?n. Size ac? veren bir ?eyle ba?kas?n? incitmeyin. Kendinize yap?lmas?n? istemedi?iniz ?eyleri ba?kas?na yapmay?n.