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I first read The Secret in my early 20s and thought it was life-changing. I recommended it to friends and family, believing it held all the answers. But after going through real struggles, my perspective on life completely changed. I now see this book for what it really is: harmful, toxic, and incredibly misleading.
Rhonda Byrne pushes the idea that you should only think positive thoughts to attract good things into your life. But life doesn’t work that way. Negative emotions exist for a reason. They help us process pain, grow, and move forward. Ignoring them doesn’t make them go away. It only suppresses reality. If a loved one dies, you should grieve. If someone mistreats you, you should acknowledge it. Pretending everything is fine and forcing positive thinking isn’t strength. It is denial.
Beyond that, this book promotes an incredibly selfish mindset. It is all about me, me, me. How I can attract what I want. It makes you believe that your thoughts alone control everything, which leads to a distorted and narcissistic way of thinking. If good things happen, you take all the credit. If bad things happen, it must be your fault for not thinking the right way. That is not just unrealistic. It is dangerous.
What bothers me even more is how Byrne misuses Bible verses to support her claims. I became a Christian because of this book, but looking back, I realize how misleading it was. She cherry-picks scripture and twists its meaning to fit her message. Love, according to her, is just about feeling good, but real love is not that shallow. Love is patient, kind, and honest. Being kind to yourself means allowing yourself to grieve, struggle, and feel every emotion. It does not mean forcing yourself to be happy all the time.
As a creative person, I also disagree with her claim that creativity comes only from feeling good. Some of my best work has come from pain and struggle. Many great artists have created masterpieces from their darkest moments. Creativity is not about avoiding negativity. It is about channeling it into something meaningful.
This book is not just flawed. It is harmful. If I could ban one book, it would be this one.
Rhonda Byrne pushes the idea that you should only think positive thoughts to attract good things into your life. But life doesn’t work that way. Negative emotions exist for a reason. They help us process pain, grow, and move forward. Ignoring them doesn’t make them go away. It only suppresses reality. If a loved one dies, you should grieve. If someone mistreats you, you should acknowledge it. Pretending everything is fine and forcing positive thinking isn’t strength. It is denial.
Beyond that, this book promotes an incredibly selfish mindset. It is all about me, me, me. How I can attract what I want. It makes you believe that your thoughts alone control everything, which leads to a distorted and narcissistic way of thinking. If good things happen, you take all the credit. If bad things happen, it must be your fault for not thinking the right way. That is not just unrealistic. It is dangerous.
What bothers me even more is how Byrne misuses Bible verses to support her claims. I became a Christian because of this book, but looking back, I realize how misleading it was. She cherry-picks scripture and twists its meaning to fit her message. Love, according to her, is just about feeling good, but real love is not that shallow. Love is patient, kind, and honest. Being kind to yourself means allowing yourself to grieve, struggle, and feel every emotion. It does not mean forcing yourself to be happy all the time.
As a creative person, I also disagree with her claim that creativity comes only from feeling good. Some of my best work has come from pain and struggle. Many great artists have created masterpieces from their darkest moments. Creativity is not about avoiding negativity. It is about channeling it into something meaningful.
This book is not just flawed. It is harmful. If I could ban one book, it would be this one.
Similar to The Secret in its teachings, but a deeper dive and more concentrated on one concept, that of love. Strong reminders of the power that's available to us if we choose it. Recommended to me by Aya I.
"When you wake up each day, you should be filled with excitement because you know the day is going to be full of great things. You are meant to be laughing and full of joy. You are meant to feel strong and safe. You are meant to feel good about yourself and know you're invaluable. Of course there will be challenges in your life, and you are meant to have them too, because they help you to grow, but you are meant to know how to overcome problems and challenges. You are meant to be victorious! You are meant to be happy! You are meant to have an amazing life!" pg. 1-2
"You were not born to struggle. You were not born to live a life where the moments of joy are few and far between. You were not born to toil in your work five days a week, with fleeting moments of happiness on weekends. You were not born to live with limited energy, feeling exhausted at the end of each day. You were not born to worry or be afraid. You were not born to suffer. What would be the point of your life? You are meant to experience life to its fullest and have everything you want and, at the same time, be filled with joy, health, vitality, excitement, and love, because that is an amazing life!" pg. 2
"When you feel good, your thoughts are automatically good too. You cannot feel good and have negative thoughts at the same time! Likewise it's impossible for you to feel bad and have good thoughts at the same time." pg. 31 [like not serving two masters]
"You can harness the power of a good feeling to the fullest by turning up its volume. To turn up the volume of a feeling, take charge of it and deliberately intensify it so you feel as good as you can. To amplify enthusiasm, revel in the feeling of enthusiasm; milk the feeling for all that you can by feeling it intensely! When you feel passion or excitement, revel in those feelings and intensify them by feeling them as deeply as you can. The more you amplify your good feelings, the greater the love you give, and the results you will receive back in your life will be nothing short of spectacular." pg. 33
"Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of you life movie. You decide what your life will be--by what you give out." pg. 35
"All the things you want are motivated by the good feelings they will give you! And how do you receive the good things you want in your life? Good feelings! Dollars want you. Health wants you. Happiness wants you. All the things you love want you! They are bursting to come into your life, but you have to give good feelings to bring them to you. You don't have to battle and struggle to change the circumstances of your life; all you have to do is give love through good feelings, and what you want will appear!" pg. 37
"The Creation Process
Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it.
1. IMAGINE
Use your mind to focus on and imagine what you desire. Imagine yourself being with your desire. Imagine yourself doing things with your desire. Imagine yourself having your desire.
2. FEEL
At the same time as you imagine, you must feellove for what you're imagining. You must imagine and feel being with your desire. You must imagine and feel doing things with your desire. You must imagine and feel having your desire.
Your imagination connects you to what you want. Your desire and feelings of love create the magnetism, the magnetic power, drawing your desire to you. This completes your part in the Creation Process.
3. RECEIVE
The force of love will work through the visible and invisible forces of nature to bring what you desire to you. It will use circumstances, events, and people to give what you love to you.
Whatever you desire you must want it with all your heart. Desire is love, and unless you have a burning desire in your heart, you will not have enough power to harness the force of love. You must really desire what you want, as an athlete desires to play a sport, a dancer desires to dance, and a painter desires to paint. You must desire what you want with all your heart because desire is a feeling of love, and you must give love to receive what you love!
Whatever you want to be in your life, whatever you want to do in your life, whatever you want to have in your life, the Creation Process is the same. Give love to receive love. Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it.
When using the Creation Process, imagine and feel that you have what you want already, and never deviate from that state of being. Why? Because the law of attraction copies whatever you give, and so you must imagine and feel having it now!" pg. 62-63
"If you are using the Creation Process to change something negative, know that you do not have to turn the negative into a positive. That feels really hard to do and it is not how creation works. Creation means something new is created--which automatically replaces the old. You don't need to think about what you want to change. All you have to do is give love for what you want, and the force of love will replace the negativity for you." pg. 87 [like what David Ross says about finding something that brings joy when desiring to change a habit. Doing the joyful thing doesn't leave room for the old habit and so things change from a place of joy instead of the desire to change an old (negative) habit. "What do you want now?"]
"So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person--you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love to fall in love with life.
Whatever you're doing, wherever you are in your day, look for the things you love. . . .See what you love. Hear what you love. Speak about what you love." pg. 119
"Make a written list of everything you love, which I urge you to do every month in the beginning, and then at least every three months. Include the places you love, the cities, the countries, the people you love, colors you love, styles you love, qualities in people you love, companies you love, services you love, sports you love, athletes you love, music you love, animals you love, flowers, plants, and trees you love. List all the material things you love, from all the different types of clothes you love, homes, furniture, books, magazines, newspapers, cars, appliances, to all the different foods you love. Think about the things you love to do and list them all, such as dancing, playing a sport, going to galleries, concerts, parties, shopping, list the movies you love, vacations and restaurants you love." pg. 121-122
"One way to stay alert is to trick your mind by asking questions such as 'What can I see that I love?' 'How many things can I see that I love?' 'What else is there that I love?' 'What can I see that thrills me?' 'What can I see that excites me?' 'What can I see that I'm passionate about?' 'Are there more things I can see that I love?' 'What can I hear that I love?' When you ask your mind questions, your mind can't help itself and it gets busy right away to give you the answers. It stops other thoughts immediately so as to come up with the answers to your questions." pg. 124
"When you're grateful for the things you have, no matter how small they may be, you will receive more of those things. If you're grateful for the money you have, however little, you will receive more money. If you're grateful for a relationship, even if it's not perfect, the relationship will get better. If you're grateful for the job that you have, even if it's not your dream job, you will receive better opportunities in your work. Because gratitude is the great multiplier of life!" pg. 129
"There are three ways to use the power of gratitude in you life, and every one of them is giving love:
1.Be grateful for everything you have received in your life (past).
2. Be grateful for everything you are receiving in you life (present).
3. Be grateful for what you want in you life, as though you have receive it (future).
If you're not grateful for what you've received, and what you're receiving, you're not giving love, and you don't have the power to change any of your current circumstances. When you give thanks for what you've received and what you're continuing to receive, it multiplies those things. At the same time, gratitude brings what you want! Be grateful for what you want in your life, as though you have received it, and the law of attraction says you must receive it." pg. 130
"Give thanks for your senses: your eyes that see, your ears that hear, your mouth that tastes, your nose that smells, and your skin that lets you feel. Give thanks for the legs you walk on, your hands that you use to do almost everything, your voice that enables you to express yourself and communicate with others. Give thanks for your amazing immune system that keeps you well or heals you, and for all your organs that maintain your body immaculately so that you can live. Give thanks for the magnificence of your human mind that no computer technology in the world can duplicate. Your entire body is the greatest laboratory on the planet, and there's nothing that can come even close to replicating its magnificence. You are a miracle!" pg. 134
"If you experience a time delay in receiving what you want, it's only because of the time it takes you to get onto the same feeling frequency that your desire is on. And to get onto the same frequency as your desire, you have to feel the love of having your desire now! When you get yourself onto the same feeling frequency and stay there, what you desire appears." pg. 142
"Imagine that you are wealthy right now. Imagine that you have all the money you need right now. How would you live your life differently? Think about all the things you would do. How would you feel? You would feel different and because you would feel different, you would walk differently. You would talk differently. You would hold your body in a different way, and you would move differently. You would react differently to everything. Your reaction to bills would be different. Your reaction to people, circumstances, events, and everything in life would be different. Because you would feel different! You would be relaxed. You would have peace of mind. You would feel happy. You would be easygoing about everything. You would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to tomorrow. That's the feeling you want to capture. That is the feeling of love for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky!" pg. 157
"You will not know how you will receive what you want until you receive it, but the force of love knows. Get out of your own way, and have faith. Imagine what you want, feel the happiness inside you, and the attractive force of love will find the perfect way for you to receive it. Our human minds are limited but the intelligence of love is unlimited. Its ways are beyond our comprehension. Don't limit your life by thinking money is the only way to get something you want. Don't make money your only target, but make your target what you want to be, do, or have. If you want a new home, imagine and feel the joy of living in it. If you want beautiful clothes, appliances, or a car; if you want to go to college, move to another country, receive training in music, acting or a sport--imagine it! All these things can come to you in an unlimited number of ways." pg. 166
"The most enlightened beings throughout history told us to love others. You were not told to love others just so that you would be a nice person. You were being given the secret to life! You were being given the law of attraction! When you love others, you will have an amazing life. When you love others, you will receive the life you deserve." pg. 172
"You can tell in your relationships right now what you've been giving. If a current relationship is great, it means you are giving more love and gratitude than negativity. If a current relationship is difficult or challenging, it means you are inadvertently giving more negativity than love.
Some people think a relationship is either good or bad because of the other person, but life doesn't happen that way. You can't say to the force of love, 'I will give love only when the other person gives it to me!' You can't receive anything in life unless you give it first! Whatever you give, you receive, so it's not about the other person at all: it's all about you! It's all about what you are giving and what you are feeling." pg. 173
"I am sharing this story because the ending of intimate relationships is very challenging for some people. You cannot deny someone else's right to choose what they want, because that is not giving love. It is a bitter pill to swallow when your heart is breaking, but you must respect everyone's freedom and right to choose. What you give to another person you receive yourself, and when you deny another person's freedom to choose, you will attract negative things that deny your own freedom. Maybe the flow of money to you decreases, or your health weakens, or your job takes a downturn, because all of these things would affect your freedom. There is no 'other person' for the law of attraction. What you give out to others, you give to yourself." pg. 176
"You have opportunities every day to give love to other people through your good feelings. When you feel happy, it is your guarantee that you will be giving positivity and love to whomever you come into contact with. When you give love to anyone, the love will return to you, but in a far greater way than you may have realized.
When you give love to another person, if your love affects the other person so positively that they then give love to someone else, then no matter how many people are positively affected, no matter how far your love travels, all that love comes back to you. Not only do you receive back the love you gave to the original person, you receive all the love back from everyone who was affected! And the love returns to you dressed as positive circumstances, positive people, and positive events in your life." pg. 189
"'If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at ay moment.' -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Roman Emperor." pg. 190
"Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should still feel!" pg. 197
"All cells must work as a team, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for their entire life. Their sole purpose is to maintain the life and health in your body. You have around 100 trillion cells in your body. That's 100,000,000,000,000 cells who are working nonstop to give you life! All 100 trillion cells are under your command, and you are commanding them and instructing them with your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.
Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have." pg. 202
"Every possible outcome can happen, but you must be on a good feeling frequency to receive good outcomes." pg. 209
"What you continually give to your body with your beliefs or strong feelings, you receive in your body. Every feeling you have saturates every cell and organ in your entire body." pg. 218
"You are the ruler of a kingdom, and your cells are your most loyal subjects who serve you without question, so whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom--the law within your body." pg. 218
"Do you see how important it is that you feel good before you begin your day? If you don't take the time to feel good, then you can't receive good things in your day. And once negative things come, it takes far more effort to change them, because once they're in front of you, you really believe in them! It is much easier to take the time to feel good so that they don't come in the first place. You can change anything in your life by changing the way you feel, but isn't it a better idea to have more good things come to you in the first place?" pg. 222
"Life is responding to you. Life is communicating with you. There are no accidents or coincidences: every single thing has a frequency, and when anything comes into your life, it means it's on the same frequency as you are. Everything you see--every sign, color, person, object--everything you hear, every circumstance and event is on your frequency." pg. 223
"When you ask a question, you are giving a question, and you must receive the answer! But you have to be alert and aware to see or hear the answers to your questions. You may receive the answer through reading something, hearing something, or dreaming something. Sometimes suddenly you will just know the answer to your question. But you will always receive the answer!" pg. 229
"Small details distract you, and they can sabotage your life. If you give too much importance to unnecessary details, you will not feel good. None of those things matters in the scheme of your life! Not one of them! Simplify your life. Do it to protect your good feelings. Do it, because when you get rid of the small details, you create space for everything you want to pour into your life." pg. 233
"There are no accidents or coincidences in life--everything is synchronicity--because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action." pg. 238
"You are an eternal being. You have all the time in the world to experience everything. There's no lack of time because you have forever! You have so many adventure ahead, so many things to experience. Not just adventures on Earth, because once we've masted Earth, we will begin new adventures in other worlds. There are galaxies, dimensions, and life that we can't even imagine now, but we will experience all of them. And we will experience them together because we are a part of creation. Billions of years from now, when we look out into creation for our next adventure, there will be worlds among worlds, galaxies among galaxies, and unlimited dimensions, stretching out before us for all eternity." pg. 245
"Give the best of you. Give your love because it is the magnet to all the riches of life. And your life will become richer than you thought was possible, because when you give love, you are fulfilling the entire purpose of your life. When you give love, you will receive back so much love and joy that you will feel it is almost more than you can take. But you can take unlimited love and joy, because it's who you are." pg. 247
Book: borrowed from SF Richmond Branch Library.
"When you wake up each day, you should be filled with excitement because you know the day is going to be full of great things. You are meant to be laughing and full of joy. You are meant to feel strong and safe. You are meant to feel good about yourself and know you're invaluable. Of course there will be challenges in your life, and you are meant to have them too, because they help you to grow, but you are meant to know how to overcome problems and challenges. You are meant to be victorious! You are meant to be happy! You are meant to have an amazing life!" pg. 1-2
"You were not born to struggle. You were not born to live a life where the moments of joy are few and far between. You were not born to toil in your work five days a week, with fleeting moments of happiness on weekends. You were not born to live with limited energy, feeling exhausted at the end of each day. You were not born to worry or be afraid. You were not born to suffer. What would be the point of your life? You are meant to experience life to its fullest and have everything you want and, at the same time, be filled with joy, health, vitality, excitement, and love, because that is an amazing life!" pg. 2
"When you feel good, your thoughts are automatically good too. You cannot feel good and have negative thoughts at the same time! Likewise it's impossible for you to feel bad and have good thoughts at the same time." pg. 31 [like not serving two masters]
"You can harness the power of a good feeling to the fullest by turning up its volume. To turn up the volume of a feeling, take charge of it and deliberately intensify it so you feel as good as you can. To amplify enthusiasm, revel in the feeling of enthusiasm; milk the feeling for all that you can by feeling it intensely! When you feel passion or excitement, revel in those feelings and intensify them by feeling them as deeply as you can. The more you amplify your good feelings, the greater the love you give, and the results you will receive back in your life will be nothing short of spectacular." pg. 33
"Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of you life movie. You decide what your life will be--by what you give out." pg. 35
"All the things you want are motivated by the good feelings they will give you! And how do you receive the good things you want in your life? Good feelings! Dollars want you. Health wants you. Happiness wants you. All the things you love want you! They are bursting to come into your life, but you have to give good feelings to bring them to you. You don't have to battle and struggle to change the circumstances of your life; all you have to do is give love through good feelings, and what you want will appear!" pg. 37
"The Creation Process
Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it.
1. IMAGINE
Use your mind to focus on and imagine what you desire. Imagine yourself being with your desire. Imagine yourself doing things with your desire. Imagine yourself having your desire.
2. FEEL
At the same time as you imagine, you must feellove for what you're imagining. You must imagine and feel being with your desire. You must imagine and feel doing things with your desire. You must imagine and feel having your desire.
Your imagination connects you to what you want. Your desire and feelings of love create the magnetism, the magnetic power, drawing your desire to you. This completes your part in the Creation Process.
3. RECEIVE
The force of love will work through the visible and invisible forces of nature to bring what you desire to you. It will use circumstances, events, and people to give what you love to you.
Whatever you desire you must want it with all your heart. Desire is love, and unless you have a burning desire in your heart, you will not have enough power to harness the force of love. You must really desire what you want, as an athlete desires to play a sport, a dancer desires to dance, and a painter desires to paint. You must desire what you want with all your heart because desire is a feeling of love, and you must give love to receive what you love!
Whatever you want to be in your life, whatever you want to do in your life, whatever you want to have in your life, the Creation Process is the same. Give love to receive love. Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it.
When using the Creation Process, imagine and feel that you have what you want already, and never deviate from that state of being. Why? Because the law of attraction copies whatever you give, and so you must imagine and feel having it now!" pg. 62-63
"If you are using the Creation Process to change something negative, know that you do not have to turn the negative into a positive. That feels really hard to do and it is not how creation works. Creation means something new is created--which automatically replaces the old. You don't need to think about what you want to change. All you have to do is give love for what you want, and the force of love will replace the negativity for you." pg. 87 [like what David Ross says about finding something that brings joy when desiring to change a habit. Doing the joyful thing doesn't leave room for the old habit and so things change from a place of joy instead of the desire to change an old (negative) habit. "What do you want now?"]
"So how do you fall in love with life? The same way you fall in love with another person--you adore everything about them! You fall in love with another person by seeing only love, hearing only love, speaking only love, and by feeling love with all your heart! And that is exactly how you use the ultimate power of love to fall in love with life.
Whatever you're doing, wherever you are in your day, look for the things you love. . . .See what you love. Hear what you love. Speak about what you love." pg. 119
"Make a written list of everything you love, which I urge you to do every month in the beginning, and then at least every three months. Include the places you love, the cities, the countries, the people you love, colors you love, styles you love, qualities in people you love, companies you love, services you love, sports you love, athletes you love, music you love, animals you love, flowers, plants, and trees you love. List all the material things you love, from all the different types of clothes you love, homes, furniture, books, magazines, newspapers, cars, appliances, to all the different foods you love. Think about the things you love to do and list them all, such as dancing, playing a sport, going to galleries, concerts, parties, shopping, list the movies you love, vacations and restaurants you love." pg. 121-122
"One way to stay alert is to trick your mind by asking questions such as 'What can I see that I love?' 'How many things can I see that I love?' 'What else is there that I love?' 'What can I see that thrills me?' 'What can I see that excites me?' 'What can I see that I'm passionate about?' 'Are there more things I can see that I love?' 'What can I hear that I love?' When you ask your mind questions, your mind can't help itself and it gets busy right away to give you the answers. It stops other thoughts immediately so as to come up with the answers to your questions." pg. 124
"When you're grateful for the things you have, no matter how small they may be, you will receive more of those things. If you're grateful for the money you have, however little, you will receive more money. If you're grateful for a relationship, even if it's not perfect, the relationship will get better. If you're grateful for the job that you have, even if it's not your dream job, you will receive better opportunities in your work. Because gratitude is the great multiplier of life!" pg. 129
"There are three ways to use the power of gratitude in you life, and every one of them is giving love:
1.Be grateful for everything you have received in your life (past).
2. Be grateful for everything you are receiving in you life (present).
3. Be grateful for what you want in you life, as though you have receive it (future).
If you're not grateful for what you've received, and what you're receiving, you're not giving love, and you don't have the power to change any of your current circumstances. When you give thanks for what you've received and what you're continuing to receive, it multiplies those things. At the same time, gratitude brings what you want! Be grateful for what you want in your life, as though you have received it, and the law of attraction says you must receive it." pg. 130
"Give thanks for your senses: your eyes that see, your ears that hear, your mouth that tastes, your nose that smells, and your skin that lets you feel. Give thanks for the legs you walk on, your hands that you use to do almost everything, your voice that enables you to express yourself and communicate with others. Give thanks for your amazing immune system that keeps you well or heals you, and for all your organs that maintain your body immaculately so that you can live. Give thanks for the magnificence of your human mind that no computer technology in the world can duplicate. Your entire body is the greatest laboratory on the planet, and there's nothing that can come even close to replicating its magnificence. You are a miracle!" pg. 134
"If you experience a time delay in receiving what you want, it's only because of the time it takes you to get onto the same feeling frequency that your desire is on. And to get onto the same frequency as your desire, you have to feel the love of having your desire now! When you get yourself onto the same feeling frequency and stay there, what you desire appears." pg. 142
"Imagine that you are wealthy right now. Imagine that you have all the money you need right now. How would you live your life differently? Think about all the things you would do. How would you feel? You would feel different and because you would feel different, you would walk differently. You would talk differently. You would hold your body in a different way, and you would move differently. You would react differently to everything. Your reaction to bills would be different. Your reaction to people, circumstances, events, and everything in life would be different. Because you would feel different! You would be relaxed. You would have peace of mind. You would feel happy. You would be easygoing about everything. You would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to tomorrow. That's the feeling you want to capture. That is the feeling of love for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky!" pg. 157
"You will not know how you will receive what you want until you receive it, but the force of love knows. Get out of your own way, and have faith. Imagine what you want, feel the happiness inside you, and the attractive force of love will find the perfect way for you to receive it. Our human minds are limited but the intelligence of love is unlimited. Its ways are beyond our comprehension. Don't limit your life by thinking money is the only way to get something you want. Don't make money your only target, but make your target what you want to be, do, or have. If you want a new home, imagine and feel the joy of living in it. If you want beautiful clothes, appliances, or a car; if you want to go to college, move to another country, receive training in music, acting or a sport--imagine it! All these things can come to you in an unlimited number of ways." pg. 166
"The most enlightened beings throughout history told us to love others. You were not told to love others just so that you would be a nice person. You were being given the secret to life! You were being given the law of attraction! When you love others, you will have an amazing life. When you love others, you will receive the life you deserve." pg. 172
"You can tell in your relationships right now what you've been giving. If a current relationship is great, it means you are giving more love and gratitude than negativity. If a current relationship is difficult or challenging, it means you are inadvertently giving more negativity than love.
Some people think a relationship is either good or bad because of the other person, but life doesn't happen that way. You can't say to the force of love, 'I will give love only when the other person gives it to me!' You can't receive anything in life unless you give it first! Whatever you give, you receive, so it's not about the other person at all: it's all about you! It's all about what you are giving and what you are feeling." pg. 173
"I am sharing this story because the ending of intimate relationships is very challenging for some people. You cannot deny someone else's right to choose what they want, because that is not giving love. It is a bitter pill to swallow when your heart is breaking, but you must respect everyone's freedom and right to choose. What you give to another person you receive yourself, and when you deny another person's freedom to choose, you will attract negative things that deny your own freedom. Maybe the flow of money to you decreases, or your health weakens, or your job takes a downturn, because all of these things would affect your freedom. There is no 'other person' for the law of attraction. What you give out to others, you give to yourself." pg. 176
"You have opportunities every day to give love to other people through your good feelings. When you feel happy, it is your guarantee that you will be giving positivity and love to whomever you come into contact with. When you give love to anyone, the love will return to you, but in a far greater way than you may have realized.
When you give love to another person, if your love affects the other person so positively that they then give love to someone else, then no matter how many people are positively affected, no matter how far your love travels, all that love comes back to you. Not only do you receive back the love you gave to the original person, you receive all the love back from everyone who was affected! And the love returns to you dressed as positive circumstances, positive people, and positive events in your life." pg. 189
"'If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at ay moment.' -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Roman Emperor." pg. 190
"Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should still feel!" pg. 197
"All cells must work as a team, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for their entire life. Their sole purpose is to maintain the life and health in your body. You have around 100 trillion cells in your body. That's 100,000,000,000,000 cells who are working nonstop to give you life! All 100 trillion cells are under your command, and you are commanding them and instructing them with your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.
Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have." pg. 202
"Every possible outcome can happen, but you must be on a good feeling frequency to receive good outcomes." pg. 209
"What you continually give to your body with your beliefs or strong feelings, you receive in your body. Every feeling you have saturates every cell and organ in your entire body." pg. 218
"You are the ruler of a kingdom, and your cells are your most loyal subjects who serve you without question, so whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom--the law within your body." pg. 218
"Do you see how important it is that you feel good before you begin your day? If you don't take the time to feel good, then you can't receive good things in your day. And once negative things come, it takes far more effort to change them, because once they're in front of you, you really believe in them! It is much easier to take the time to feel good so that they don't come in the first place. You can change anything in your life by changing the way you feel, but isn't it a better idea to have more good things come to you in the first place?" pg. 222
"Life is responding to you. Life is communicating with you. There are no accidents or coincidences: every single thing has a frequency, and when anything comes into your life, it means it's on the same frequency as you are. Everything you see--every sign, color, person, object--everything you hear, every circumstance and event is on your frequency." pg. 223
"When you ask a question, you are giving a question, and you must receive the answer! But you have to be alert and aware to see or hear the answers to your questions. You may receive the answer through reading something, hearing something, or dreaming something. Sometimes suddenly you will just know the answer to your question. But you will always receive the answer!" pg. 229
"Small details distract you, and they can sabotage your life. If you give too much importance to unnecessary details, you will not feel good. None of those things matters in the scheme of your life! Not one of them! Simplify your life. Do it to protect your good feelings. Do it, because when you get rid of the small details, you create space for everything you want to pour into your life." pg. 233
"There are no accidents or coincidences in life--everything is synchronicity--because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action." pg. 238
"You are an eternal being. You have all the time in the world to experience everything. There's no lack of time because you have forever! You have so many adventure ahead, so many things to experience. Not just adventures on Earth, because once we've masted Earth, we will begin new adventures in other worlds. There are galaxies, dimensions, and life that we can't even imagine now, but we will experience all of them. And we will experience them together because we are a part of creation. Billions of years from now, when we look out into creation for our next adventure, there will be worlds among worlds, galaxies among galaxies, and unlimited dimensions, stretching out before us for all eternity." pg. 245
"Give the best of you. Give your love because it is the magnet to all the riches of life. And your life will become richer than you thought was possible, because when you give love, you are fulfilling the entire purpose of your life. When you give love, you will receive back so much love and joy that you will feel it is almost more than you can take. But you can take unlimited love and joy, because it's who you are." pg. 247
Book: borrowed from SF Richmond Branch Library.
While there are some interesting and useful ideas in this book, most of it is highly problematic. According to the author, it seems to be our own fault if we fall ill, get wrinkles or, you know, simply don't live to eight hundred (yep). You just have to give love and you will live forever in perfect health and beauty, because what you give is what you get, or so she says. Unless you "give a question". The universe will then provide you with an answer. Not sure how that is supposed to work, but physics and logic had already died a long and painful death by that point. Speaking of painful, the writing style also made me wonder how anybody would get something like that past a decent editor. But maybe that's just the power of love at work here? Who knows!
About what to expect from the original The Secret. Nice reminder to be grateful and give love in all ways of life so that it can come back to you.
Loved this followup to The Secret! I listened to it on audio which I think enhances the message to hear the passion in the author's voice. I bought a hardback copy for my office as well since I find myself working with so many of my patients on abundance and losing poverty mentality. I can see how some may find the material abundance distaste3ful, but it is part of the total of abundance that is all around us and available for everyone. I appreciate how this book feels more on the spiritual side than The Secret as well. I was glad to see areas that I could improve - feeling joy for all success including large companies I'd not been happy for in the past as part of the total gratitude and abundance. I find myself thinking about this book many many times throughout the day. It has certainly changed my focus for the better!
Ugh. Although the message is interesting and relevant, the book is a pain to read. Especially the audio version: the music, the emphatic narration, the constant repetition… it’s just so over the top cringe, the message just goes over my head while I’m busy gagging.
There is also an issue with the messaging. If you always get what you give then imagine the anxiety attack when life throws some nasty stuff at you and instead of problem solving you start second guessing yourself: Rhonda said I brought this onto myself etc.
I don’t really recommend this apart as a curiosity exercise.
There is also an issue with the messaging. If you always get what you give then imagine the anxiety attack when life throws some nasty stuff at you and instead of problem solving you start second guessing yourself: Rhonda said I brought this onto myself etc.
I don’t really recommend this apart as a curiosity exercise.
Ein unglaubliches Buch! Ich habe es sehr langsam gelesen und mir jeden Morgen etwas 10 Minuten für ein paar Seiten genommen. Das hat nicht nur meinem Morgen, meinem Tag und meiner Routine etwas gegeben, sondern auch meinem Innersten. Dieses Buch ist ein wahrer Schalter zum Umdenken. Wirklich toll!