Quote

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Guy Finley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
Philosopher
Radio Personality
Songwriter
Writer
Needs
Realize
Really
Realizing
Things
Peace
Spiritual
Bottomless
Understand
Basket
Nature
Baskets
Seems
Gradually
Need
Interested

More quotes by Guy Finley

Image
Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
Guy Finley
Image
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!
Guy Finley
Image
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
Image
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Guy Finley
Image
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
Guy Finley
Image
The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
Guy Finley
Image
Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.
Guy Finley
Image
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
Guy Finley
Image
The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.
Guy Finley
Image
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
Guy Finley
Image
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
Guy Finley
Image
Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.
Guy Finley
Image
It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
Guy Finley
Image
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Guy Finley
Image
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
Guy Finley
Image
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
Guy Finley
Image
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
Guy Finley
Image
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
Guy Finley
Image
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
Guy Finley
Image
The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
Guy Finley