Quotes from Mike Dooley

Please don't confuse random with spontaneous. Spontaneous rocks. It emerges from a field of probabilities that you control, maintaining choice and meaning. It involves instinct and urge, hunches and feelings, imagination and belief. Random implies the opposite. Empty and pointless. Maybe or maybe not. Chance and luck.

Seek not to fix or change others, especially when they've hurt you. Neither should you find excuses for their behavior or "learn to love them"—however good a sound bite the latter makes. What will serve you most is to create as much space as possible within which to heal, be distracted, and fill your life with new friends, ideas, and adventures.

Accordingly, evidence appeared to those who believed.

The process of opening your mind, while expecting answers, coupled with taking action, knocking on doors and turning over stones, makes you a lightning rod for breakthroughs.

Nesting like Russian dolls. Each larger creation becomes more than the sum of its parts yet remains entirely dependent on them.

Your physical body is the portal of your spirit, the God fragment that you are, through which you physically experience and shape the world you create.

your life is a gigantic work in progress

Forgiveness is only necessary when first there's blame.

The idea that life and consciousness was bestowed on us by a God whose brilliance accounts for the entire universe—but possesses the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old—is shockingly illogical.

It always works for you! Every day you get closer; every day it gets easier!

All expenditures, whether from the heart or the wallet, in the past or present, big or small, can be viewed as either "depleting" or "enriching." Enriching works for me.

Work," hands down, is the fastest and easiest way to open the financial floodgates.

No wonder, given the brainwashing of the ages: being told that you are limited, aging, frail, born of sin, into sin, bound to unavoidably sin for the rest of your life, and that you'll be tested and judged anyway. Huh? Why? To see if you didn't sin? Quite an improbable setup. No win/no win. How about we roll back all of those ideas, leave the door open, and not connect dots that don't need connecting?

You, the formless and eternal, now temporarily possess a physical body, chemically and organically borrowed from the substances of earth, to channel your nonphysical energy and personality as you negotiate space, travel through time, and experience what has become known as life. Voilà!

It's not possible. For better or worse, you cannot significantly change your life by manipulating the material world— not by working harder, not by studying longer, not by schmoozing, not by sweating, not by fasting, not by the hair of your chinny chin chin! But change—great change—is inescapable ... when you first begin manipulating the world of your thoughts. It is that simple. The Universe