Guy Finley Quotes

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

The secret of passion is purpose.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.

It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

I am moved by the light.

Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.