Quotes from Michael Neill

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

You are the expert on you.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far we can go.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

Hope is the magic elixir that energizes dreams, fuels possibilities, and lets you live beyond the limits of your historical thinking. It is not a promise that something you want will happen — it is an invitation to enjoy the possibility of what you want while you and life negotiate the eventual outcome. There is never a good reason not to hope!

Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.

while people and circumstances certainly matter, what's even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances.

As you begin moving in the direction of your dreams, the emergence of fresh new thinking and unexpected synchronicities (i.e. 'luck') is 100 percent reliable and 98 percent unpredictable.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.

Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the 'white triangle' we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, 'Thought creates our world and then says, "I didn't do it.

What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.

intellect is only one facet of the mind, and that beyond it is a universal intelligence which is freely available to each of us. If we're willing to put down the book entitled My Mind, we can wander around the whole library and even access the thoughts of God.

I am as f@#ked up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional (i.e., 'FINE') as the next person; however, it has surprisingly little impact on my enjoyment of life or effectiveness in the world.