All quotes from
Michael's book
When I
say “God”, I’m not talking religion. I’m
simply pointing as best I can to the impersonal energy and intelligence behind
life that causes grass to grow, cuts to heal, rain to fall, and inspiration to
strike.
Look past
the illusion of our own thinking.
If we
want to achieve great things in life, it is necessary to spend at least as much
time, if not more, attending to our base camp as we actually do in climbing
mountains.
We live
in a world of unrecognized thought.
Your
thinking doesn’t matter as much as you think.
The
harder we work to get rid of our thinking, the more thinking there is to get
rid of.
We are
not our thinking, we are the space where thoughts arise.
Feelings
are no more (or less) than the shadows of the thoughts that pass through our
mind from moment to moment.
There
is no such thing as a solution to a feeling.
When it’s
okay to feel good when you feel good and bad when you feel bad, recognizing
that as thoughts change, the feelings change with them, there’s no need to
prefer one feeling over another, let alone attempt to fix it.
No
matter how “spiritually enlightened” I might get, I’m always going to have to
deal with my very human psychology.
We
live in the feeling of our thinking, not the feeling of our circumstances.
Peace
of mind is both the path and the goal of the spiritual journey.
When and
if I need to know, I’ll know; if I don’t need to know, I probably won’t.
Peace is
our natural state.
In
order to forgive, you have to already have judged.
True
forgiveness is when you can feel the same way about the person as you did
before anything ever happened.
The less
you have on your mind, the higher your level of performance.
Resilience,
wellbeing, confidence, learning and creativity are already built into the human
system.
Our
experience of life is really an
experience of thought.