Quotes from Pam Grout

Whatever you focus on expands

What shows up in our lives is a direct reflection of our inner thoughts and emotions.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

If we simply devote our minds to feeling rich, to being grateful for all the already-apparent riches in our lives—say, our families and our wonderful friends—being broke would disappear. We only experience it because we devote our thoughts to it. That's how powerful our minds are.

It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.

But here's what physicists tell us. Things, in the quantum world, do not happen in steps. They happen immediately.

Scientists tell us that 98 percent of our 60,000 thoughts are repeats from the day before.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness." —NEVILLE GODDARD, BARBADIAN AUTHOR AND MYSTIC

The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.

A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —

Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.

So instead of asking the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" perhaps the better question is "Why do good people think bad things can even happen?" Bad is nothing but a judgment call, a judgment call we're not qualified to make. Just like American Idol hasn't requested your services next to JLo and Keith Urban, you aren't qualified to judge what is good and bad.

The most dangerous ads, as far as I'm concerned, are the new prescription drug ads, because they teach people to be sick.

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven. The

Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing." —A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Today, I see and create a radically new vision, one where everyone wins, everyone gets a seat at the table.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD In

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

The brain is basically a bureaucrat. It looks at the past, applies it to the present and uses it as a map to predict the future. It literally makes up stories.

As it says in A Course of Miracles, "You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere.

You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.

You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk.

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.