Guy Finley Quotes

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

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.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

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.

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

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

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

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.

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

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.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

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

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

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

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.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

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

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?

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

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.

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

Love is effortless attention.

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

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

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.