Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities, if you believe it won't you will see obstacles.
In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
