Guy Finley Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.”

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

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

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

“You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.”

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

“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!”

“No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!”

“We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.”

“Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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