Maria Nemeth > Quotes

“We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.”
― Maria Nemeth

“Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.”
― Maria Nemeth

“If your goals are attempts to get away from fear, you waste a lot of energy trying to get something you don’t really want.”
― Maria Nemeth, The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

“The secret to using affirmations in a way that works is to affirm what you know to be true now, not what you hope will be true in the future. Along those lines, affirm what is true in metaphysical reality. Don't use an affirmation to try to change anything in physical reality. Try this experiment to see what I mean: Say out loud the affirmation "I am wealthy. I have all the money I want." Now, say out loud "I am willing to be financially successful.”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“Each of us operates on three levels. The first is who we pretend to be. Underneath who we pretend to be is who we're worried we are. The third aspect of ourselves lives at the center: who we really are.”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“Life is hard when you don’t do what you truly value because you are putting all your energy into trying to get rid of your fears rather than into materializing your dreams. When you’re stuck within your comfort zone, life becomes stifling—and therefore, very uncomfortable! In a paradoxical way, the easy life includes the experience of discomfort. It is when we try to avoid naturally occurring pain or discomfort that life becomes difficult.”
― Maria Nemeth, The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

“Success is consistently doing what you said you would do with clarity, focus, ease, and grace. Success, seen this way, is an inside job. You don't compare yourself to anyone else. You don't even look at whether what you're doing is big or small. You look instead at the quality of your action and of your experience.”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“People who are successful are willing to do what they don't want to do. They are willing to do what they are afraid of doing. They are also willing to do what they don't know how to do.”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“As a man's real power grows, and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower, until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do. - Ursula LeGuin”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? This quote from McDonald's founder Ray Kroc neatly sums up our need to continuously innovate and create in our lives.”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“In fact, you may come to see that any distress you experience in the face of difficulty is a measure of your courage as you move outside your comfort zone. It’s a sign of how much you’re stretching beyond your present capacities or place in life. It shows that you are expanding both your skills and your strengths.”
― Maria Nemeth, The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

“Would you prefer to be known for your complaints or your contributions? Your issues or your ideas? Your drama or your dreams? Your reasons or your results?”
― Maria Nemeth, Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

“enlightenment may be nothing more than a simple shift of attention and energy, away from Monkey Mind and toward your goals.”
― Maria Nemeth, The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment