Guy Finley

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

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

“It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Love is effortless attention.”

“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.”

“Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.”

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

“Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.”

“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.”

“We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.”

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

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

“Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.”

“As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.”

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

“One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.”

“It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.”

“To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.”

“You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.”

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

“From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.”

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

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