Michael Neill Quotes

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams.

You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

We create other people by how we listen to them

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

Urgency is insecurity.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

You are the expert on you.

There aren't enough cookies in the world to make you feel loved and whole.

Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.

We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off.