Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician.
The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
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.
Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.
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!
Love is effortless attention.
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.