Guy Finley Quotes

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

The breath of the mind is attention.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.