Quotes from Peter McWilliams

Emotion is energy in motion.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

To affirm is to make firm.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.