Guy Finley Quotes

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

Love is effortless attention.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?

Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.