Quotes from Pam Grout

we humans decide in advance how we're going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see.

Follow your muses instead of trying to solve the social wounds of your adolescence. We've lost a whole generation of people who are dealing with their environment by retreating, by going into therapy. So instead, you go to open mic at a crummy tavern and perform your art. Rather than being introspective and constantly working on your shortcomings, get angry, get excited, get social.

there's no such thing as an idle thought and that all of us are way too cavalier and tolerant of our minds' wandering.

the universe doesn't exist without a perceiver of that universe.") All

To bring something into the physical world requires focusing not on what we see, but on what we want to see.

Once you get on the joy and gratitude frequency, you come to see that the universe is not only a co-creative force, but it's your strongest ally.

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

A belly laugh A toy from your childhood Your favorite song from high school The number 222 A beach ball A senior citizen in a fashionable hat A smile from a baby A billboard with a message for you

expectations, in fact, are so powerful that placebos (fake treatments like sugar pills, saline injections, and sham surgery) cause bald men to grow hair, high blood pressure to drop, ulcers to heal, dopamine levels to increase, and even tumors to shrink. And although pharmaceutical companies would rather keep this on the down low, placebos relieve symptoms on par with real medication. In other words, it's our beliefs that do the healing.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.

You better have fun. Because you're going to be gone in a minute.

It's imperative to practice conscious, moment-by-moment awareness. Otherwise, you're operating out of old encrusted beliefs, beliefs you downloaded before you were five years old. Do you really want a five-year-old running your life?

As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other's lives better by our own hands. Yes, yes, yes—this is possible.

Our beliefs about ourselves and about the

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

I am a child of God and therefore do not inherit sickness.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

When we don't stop daily to inventory all the gazillion things going right in our lives, the crazy voices in our heads try to make us their

Nothing could be more vital than to be suspicious of the voice in my head.

The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating." It will also prove that your fears are pointless and that maybe it's okay to take a big, deep breath.

Like most people, I started with baby steps—making simple intentions like securing up-front parking spots, finding four-leaf clovers

love trumps fear, laughter trumps tears, and abundance trumps loss. And

What I'd like to suggest in this three-day experiment is that all the important stuff you need to know is happening right outside your window, right there in your neighborhood, right in your own heart.