You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. Guy Finley More Quotes by Guy Finley More Quotes From Guy Finley When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be. Guy Finley fearless light heart Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. Guy Finley pain ease running If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer. Guy Finley doomed suffering house Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise. Guy Finley down-and want reality Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows. Guy Finley love-grows fades watches 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. Guy Finley important simple practice 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. Guy Finley tasks eye promise 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 worry may needs 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 wisdom self sweet True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear. Guy Finley stress dark meaningful 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 lessons mistake running Walk lightly through life. Guy Finley wise-words walks wise Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed. Guy Finley casual everyday moments 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 defeat self dark Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur. Guy Finley real self prayer 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 moments appearance wisdom False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible. Guy Finley real-life real life-is 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. Guy Finley effort secret remember If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed. Guy Finley cutting clever heart It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time. Guy Finley impossible
