Michael Neill > Quotes

“If you are doing things in order to be happy...
you're doing them in the wrong order.”
― Michael Neill

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“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!”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life

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

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“Remember – and this is very important – you’re only one thought away from happiness, you’re only one thought away from sadness. The secret lies in Thought. It’s the missing link that everybody in this world is looking for… It’s a gift that we were given to have the freedom to walk through life and see what we want to see. How much better than that can you get? That you have the freedom to walk through life and see as a free thinker, that is the greatest gift ever, to be a free thinker. SYD BANKS”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself – and there isn’t one.’ Wei Wu Wei”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“Mind + Thought + Consciousness = Reality Mind + New Thought + Consciousness = New Reality”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“You can ask anyone for anything if you don’t buy into your thinking about what it would mean if they said ‘no.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.’ WINSTON CHURCHILL”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“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.”
― Michael Neill, Creating the Impossible: How to Get Any Project Out of Your Head and into the World in Less Than 90 Days

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“And as your understanding of what’s possible grows, your life will begin to change for the better, all by itself.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“There’s nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“Why do we put up with boorish behavior and ignorant decision-making from the people above us in our company? Why is the customer ‘always right’? Because in both cases, they’re the ones with the money, and we’re seeing ourselves as a common resource in pursuit of a scarce one.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“Remember – and this is very important – you’re only one thought away from happiness, you’re only one thought away from sadness. The secret lies in Thought. It’s the missing link that everybody in this world is looking for… It’s a gift that we were given to have the freedom to walk through life and see what we want to see. How much better than that can you get? That you have the freedom to walk through life and see as a free thinker, that is the greatest gift ever, to be a free thinker. SYD BANKS When I first heard practitioners of the Three Principles talk about the principle of Thought in semi-rapturous tones, I thought that at best they were a bit simple”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“Anywhere there’s a positive difference to be made, there’s money to be made. If you can’t (or won’t) make much of a difference, you’re unlikely to make very much money.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“Hope is the gateway to new possibilities. It isn’t a promise that something you want will happen; it’s an invitation to enjoy the possibility of what you want while you and life negotiate the eventual outcome.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“People hire coaches for one simple reason: they want to get more out of themselves and their lives than they seem to be getting on their own.”
― Michael Neill, Supercoach: 10 Secrets To Transform Anyone's Life

“while people and circumstances certainly matter, what’s even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances.”
― Michael Neill, The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

“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.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home