James Redfield > Quotes

“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights

“When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!”
― James Redfield

“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“Inspiration is what keeps us well.”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights

“The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“This is [her] soul group.’
What do you mean?’
It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called transcendent, spiritual. If you find yourself reading this book, then perhaps you already sense what is happening, already feel it inside. It begins with a heightened perception of the way our lives move forward. We notice those chance events that occur at just the right moment, and bring forth just the right individuals, to suddenly send our lives in a new and important direction. Perhaps more than any other people in any other time, we intuit higher meaning in these mysterious happenings.

We know that life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. And we know something else as well: know that once we do understand what is happening, how to engage this allusive process and maximize its occurrence in our lives, human society will take a quantum leap into a whole new way of life one
that realizes the best of our tradition and creates a culture that has been the goal of history all along.

The following story is offered toward this new understanding. If it touches you, if it crystalizes something that you perceive in life, then pass on what you see to another for I think our new awareness of the spiritual is expanding in exactly this way, no longer through hype nor fad, but personally, through a kind of positive psychological contagion among people.

All that any of us have to do is uspend our doubts and distractions just long enough... and miraculously,this reality can be our own.”
― James Redfield

“In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we’re able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: how to refresh your approach to tomorrow with a new understanding, energy and optimism

“you should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

“Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.”
― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“Prayer of Application to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit who solves all promblems, who lights all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who give me the divine giftto forgive and forget all evil against meand that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things and to confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you, even and in spite of all matrial illusion. I want to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy toward me and mine.
The person must say this prayer for three consecutive days. After three days the favor requested will be granted even if it may appear difficult. This prayer,including these instructions must be published immediately after the favor is granted without mentioning the favor; only your initials should appear at the bottom.
MK”
― James Redfield