Guy Finley Quotes

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Walk lightly through life.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

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