Guy Finley Quotes

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

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

“We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.”

“The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.”

“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.”

“The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.”

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

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