Guy Finley Quotes

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.

What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.