Guy Finley Quotes

“What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?”

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

“Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"”

“Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.”

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

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

“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.”

“Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.”

“The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!”

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

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

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