Guy Finley Quotes

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative.

Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Time is eternity begun.

It's always tea-time.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.