Guy Finley Quotes

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Your nature is the Buddha.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.