235 Quotes by Guy Finley

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.

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.

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.

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there’s always more to see.

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.

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.

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!

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

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