Guy Finley Quotes

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

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

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.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

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

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!

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

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

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

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.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

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

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

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

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

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

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

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

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

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?"

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.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

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.

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.

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.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

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

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

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.

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

The Peace you long for also longs for you.

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

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

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.

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

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

All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

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

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

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

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

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

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

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

Walk lightly through life.