Top 100 Guy Finley Quotes
#1. Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
Guy Finley
#2. 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.
Guy Finley
#3. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
#4. The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
Guy Finley
#5. As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
Guy Finley
#6. 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.
Guy Finley
#7. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself
Guy Finley
#8. One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
Guy Finley
#9. The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
Guy Finley
#10. Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
Guy Finley
#11. The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
Guy Finley
#12. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
Guy Finley
#13. Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
Guy Finley
#14. Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
Guy Finley
#15. 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.
Guy Finley
#16. Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.
Guy Finley
#17. Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
Guy Finley
#18. No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
Guy Finley
#19. 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?
Guy Finley
#20. The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People
Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
Guy Finley
#21. In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.
Guy Finley
#22. 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.
Guy Finley
#23. Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
Guy Finley
#24. Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
Guy Finley
#25. Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
Guy Finley
#26. 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?
Guy Finley
#27. We are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.
Guy Finley
#28. You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
#29. As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.
Guy Finley
#30. What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.
Guy Finley
#31. The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
Guy Finley
#32. 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.
Guy Finley
#33. Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
Guy Finley
#34. Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
Guy Finley
#35. To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.
Guy Finley
#36. 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.
Guy Finley
#37. Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
Guy Finley
#38. Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
Guy Finley
#39. The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
Guy Finley
#40. All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
Guy Finley
#41. 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.
Guy Finley
#42. Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
Guy Finley
#43. What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
Guy Finley
#44. Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
Guy Finley
#45. 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.
Guy Finley
#46. When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate ... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
Guy Finley
#47. Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
Guy Finley
#48. A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.
Guy Finley
#49. What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.
Guy Finley
#50. Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
Guy Finley
#51. Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
Guy Finley
#52. All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
Guy Finley
#53. Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.
Guy Finley
#54. 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.
Guy Finley
#56. Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
Guy Finley
#57. 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.
Guy Finley
#58. 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.
Guy Finley
#59. 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.
Guy Finley
#60. If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
Guy Finley
#61. False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.
Guy Finley
#62. Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
Guy Finley
#63. The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
Guy Finley
#64. 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!
Guy Finley
#65. Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
Guy Finley
#66. Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
Guy Finley
#67. Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror ... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
Guy Finley
#68. If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life ... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?
Guy Finley
#69. Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Guy Finley
#70. If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Guy Finley
#71. Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.
Guy Finley
#72. A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies ... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.
Guy Finley
#73. Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
Guy Finley
#74. The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
Guy Finley
#75. In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
Guy Finley
#76. On the other side of resistance is the flow.
Guy Finley
#77. If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
Guy Finley
#78. 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.
Guy Finley
#79. The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Guy Finley
#80. 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.
Guy Finley
#81. 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.
Guy Finley
#82. 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.
Guy Finley
#83. Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.
Guy Finley
#84. It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.
Guy Finley
#85. 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.
Guy Finley
#86. I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.
Guy Finley
#87. The only one interested in hearing your sad story is ... you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
Guy Finley
#88. 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.
Guy Finley
#89. The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.
Guy Finley
#90. Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.
Guy Finley
#91. Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.
Guy Finley
#92. 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.
Guy Finley
#93. 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.
Guy Finley
#94. 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.
Guy Finley
#95. 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.
Guy Finley
#96. 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.
Guy Finley
#97. Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait ... and peace will appear.
Guy Finley
#98. We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
Guy Finley
#99. It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
Guy Finley
#100. We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.
Guy Finley
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
