Guy Finley Quotes

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

“All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.”

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

“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.”

“Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.”

“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.”

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

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

“False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.”

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

“Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.”

“Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?”

“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.”

“The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?”

“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.”

“Walk lightly through life.”

“Love is effortless attention.”

“Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"”

“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.”

“A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.”

“Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today”

“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.”

“You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”

“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.”

“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.”