Top 120 Guy Finley Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.”

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

54. “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

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

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

57. “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

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

— Guy Finley

59. “The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.”

— Guy Finley

60. “I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.”

— Guy Finley

61. “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

62. “Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.”

— Guy Finley

63. “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

64. “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

65. “A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.”

— Guy Finley

66. “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.”

— Guy Finley

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.”

— Guy Finley

70. “To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.”

— Guy Finley

71. “Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself.”

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

73. “The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”

— Guy Finley

74. “Each time that you don’t know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.”

— Guy Finley

75. “From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.”

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

77. “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

78. “The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we’ve run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don’t like needful moments and therefore we resist them.”

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

80. “False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.”

— Guy Finley

81. “Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: “Can confusion know anything about clarity?””

— Guy Finley

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

— Guy Finley

83. “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?””

— Guy Finley

84. “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.”

— Guy Finley

85. “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

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

— Guy Finley

87. “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

88. “It’s time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.”

— Guy Finley

89. “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

90. “The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!”

— Guy Finley

91. “Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.”

— Guy Finley

92. “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.”

— Guy Finley

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “What world is there for us where our essential nature – and its right to live free – is one and the same?”

— Guy Finley

97. “The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as ‘creating a new reality’ for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you’re meant to be.”

— Guy Finley

98. “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

99. “As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.”

— Guy Finley

100. “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