Guy Finley
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Freedom
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.Collection: Strength
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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.
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.
When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.
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.
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
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.
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.
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
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.
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.
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
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.
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.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
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.
We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
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.
Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.
All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
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.
Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.Collection: Pain
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.Collection: New Beginnings
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.Collection: Thinking
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.Collection: True To Yourself
Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.Collection: Life
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.Collection: Understanding
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.Collection: Disappointment
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?Collection: Want
We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.Collection: Destiny
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.Collection: Thinking
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.Collection: Inspirational
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.Collection: Wisdom
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.Collection: More Time
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?"Collection: Meaningful
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.Collection: Wisdom
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Spiritual