All quotes from
Michael's book
Ironically,
what we`re seeking is all around us all the time. Right where you`re sitting now is the
infinite whole made manifest in the divine specific. You could no sooner be `not enough` than a
tree could be the wrong color. And you
don`t have to become worthy of love, because love is what you're made of.
I know
two things for sure: I seem to be part of a larger whole, and I`m not in charge
of how things unfold. If you want to
call that larger whole or great unfolding `life` or `the universe` or `spirit`,
I`m okay with that. If you want to call
it `God`, I`m okay with that too.
Knowing
that I`m feeling my thinking and not my life makes all the difference in the
world.
Feelings
are real but the way you`re seeing your life isn`t. it`s just a trick of the
mind, like a mirage.
One of
the great ironies of the human condition is that we seem most motivated to make
dramatic changes at precisely the moments when we`re least equipped to do so.
No matter
how hard a surfer works, the ocean is doing most of the heavy lifting.
You’re
not the pilot on this mission. You’re
the plane.
In any
situation we have a nearly infinite range of choices.
Everything
the body does is designed to return itself to a state of natural health and
equilibrium.
By
recognizing three fundamental principles at play behind every human experience,
it becomes possible to tap into a deeper intelligence behind life that informs
our mental health, supplies us with ongoing wisdom and guidance, and allows us
to unleash incredible creative power into the world.
Experience
always follows thought, regardless of what’s going around.
Our
endless pursuit of “not this” is driven by our deepest fear: that there’s
something wrong with us and we’re not enough.
There is
an energy and intelligence behind life.
This ever present but is not “in control” – it has no inherent morality
or apparent point of view.
We create
our individual experience of reality via the vehicle of thought.
There is
no end of you finding beauty, love and understanding in this world.
The
more you look in the direction of what’s creating experience and away from the
content of that experience the easier it is to hear the quiet wisdom that can
lead to a quantum leap of consciousness.
We’re
only ever one new thought away from a completely different experience of being
alive.
Once
you realize that it’s only your over thinking that you’re experiencing, the
thinking loses much of its hold over you.
The
moment we stop fighting with ourselves and others about what to think and
instead focus on the miracle we are thinking, the details of life begin to work
themselves out, all by themselves.
We’re
living in the feeling of our thinking, not the feeling of the world.
Stress,
fear, and difficulty are perceived to be primary characteristics of the
situation, not of our own thinking.
The
nature of thought is both creative and arbitrary.
Instead
of trying to explain why we think what we think by looking for evidence in the
world or in our upbringing, we recognize that mind is not so much a camera as a
paintbrush and, consciously or unconsciously, we are the artist.
We
don’t experience money; we experience our thinking about money.
