Guy Finley Quotes

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

I'm trying not to change.

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

I'm grounded in who I am.

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Figure out who you are.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.