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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.