Guy Finley Quotes

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.