Guy Finley citations

“Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.”

“Les gens sereins, sages, heureux et prospères voient leur vie et les événements sous un angle différent. Un homme sage ne peut se laisser duper ni induire en erreur. Les "mauvaises nouvelles" n'ont pas d'emprise sur une femme sincèrement heureuse. Une personne prospère ne se laisse pas affoler par une nouvelle télédiffusée ou par une manchette sensationnelle du journal. Ces personnes sont habitées de façon permanente par une sagesse, un contentement et une richesse intérieurs et non extérieurs.”

“Le vrai besoin qu'il avait éprouvé tout ce temps-là était de goûter un moment de silence qu'il ne pouvait trouver à l'endroit où son esprit ordinaire le gardait occupé à chercher.”

“Notre besoin d'être forts nous pousse à chercher quelque chose ou quelqu'un qui puisse nous aider à ne pas être anéantis chaque fois que notre vie commence à d'effondrer.
Notre besoin de signification nous oblige à nous inventer un but stérile après l'autre et à investir nos énergies dans des tâches inépuisables.
Notre besoin d'être aimés nous contraint à accepter la cruauté des autres en échange d'une parcelle de leur gentillesse.”

“Quiconque est authentiquement heureux ou sage le demeure dans chaque situation. Il apporte cette qualité avec lui partout où il va. La sagesse et le contentement font partie de sa nature.”

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

“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.”

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat.”

“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.”

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

“Saying "yes" for fear of saying "no" is a recipe for resentment.”

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

“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.”

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

“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:”

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