Quotes from Guy Finley

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.

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.

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.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

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.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

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.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

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.

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

Walk lightly through life.

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.