Guy Finley Quotes

I want to walk through life.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

You don't need to figure out exactly who you are right now. Just live your life.

I live very gently.

There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

A word to the wise is sufficient

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Think before thou speakest.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.