Guy Finley Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?"

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

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.

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

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

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?

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

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

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

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

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

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

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

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

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.

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.

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.