Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from The Greatest Secret:
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” Rumi”
“When you find yourself wanting love, know that it is like a lake looking for water.”
“Don’t expect people, circumstances, and events to change for you to feel better, because none of them ever will. You’ll never be happy if you wait for the world to change according to your desires or your expectations. To change how you feel in any given moment is always an inside job.”
“A person is what you experience, it is not what you are.”
“Most people believe that negative situations come from outside of them; they believe that it’s either people, circumstances, or events in the world that have caused the negative situations in their life. But nothing is inherently good or bad, as Shakespeare told us: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“Visualisatie is de krachtigste manier om je onderbewustzijn mee te laten werken om je dromen te verwezenlijken”
“Your way out of all difficulties begins with letting go of the belief that you are your body.”
“When you fully recognize who you are, life becomes effortless—everything you need seems to appear without any effort from you. There’s an ease and a flow that take over your life. A life of lack and limitation is over forever. You come to know the ultimate power you have over everything in the world.”
“Whenever we suffer, it’s because we’ve believed something about ourselves that isn’t true; we’ve mistaken our own identity. All of humanity’s suffering comes down to a case of mistaken identity.”
“Who you really are is unlimited, which means absolutely nothing has power over you.”
“Allow the experience of being aware to come into the foreground of experience, and let thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and perceptions recede into the background.”
“The person is limited, but Awareness is unlimited, which means everything is possible. Nothing can ever restrict you; nothing whatsoever has power over you!”
“Am I that, or am I the one that is aware of it?”
“When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred, we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins.”
“Problems are not real. Problems are only imagined. There are no problems. It’s impossible. What you are is free of problems. Problems are manufactured—every single one of them.”
“I’m going to tell you something very powerful. There is not a problem anywhere at any time. There is only a lack of love.”
“When you don’t resist anything, when you accept everything just the way that it is, this is love. Where love exists, no problem can exist. It’s the reason why no problem can touch who you really are, because you are pure love. It is a love that is so pure our minds can’t conceive of it. It is completely welcoming, accepting, all allowing, and totally unattached. It’s the kind of love demonstrated by the remarkable enlightened beings like Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Krishna, and so many more. And this pure love that you are has no problems ever.”
“«La felicidad se da cuando no estamos apegados a ningún objeto —incluido el cuerpo— ni a cosas materiales».”
“«Deja de centrarte en el problema. Deja de querer que se revuelva en un sentido o en otro. Deja de desear que pase. Deja de querer cambiarlo. Deja de querer solucionarlo y controlarlo. Se derrumbará de manera natural cuando decidas ser Conciencia. Todo lo que no es amor se derrumba frente al amor. Todo lo que no es real se derrumba frente a la Conciencia».”
“Saying "No" holds what you don't want to you. Saying "Yes" to what you don't want releases your resistance, allowing what you don't want to change. It's counterintuitive, but it's how it works. When you say, "No, I don't want this," you're resisting, and as you've come to understand, whatever your resist persists.”
“A thought is like a bird flying by. Let the bird fly past without analyzing it. ‘Where are you going? What kind of bird are you? Where’s your family? How old are you?’ Just let the bird fly past.”
“The past is made of memory, the future of imagination. Neither has any existence outside the realm of thought.” Rupert Spira, from The Ashes of Love”
“Whether you like it or not, you’re in the moment. There’s only one moment, it’s infinite, and you can’t be anywhere else but in it.”
“The first step to freedom is when we understand that our thoughts create our life. What you think is what manifests. You won’t have the life you want if you give your attention to thoughts of what you don’t want. And you will have the life you want if you give your attention only to thoughts of what you do want! When you understand this fully, you become very aware of your thoughts, and it puts you well on the path of awakening, because your awareness of your thoughts not only stops you from believing negative thoughts, but it means you are becoming more aware.”
“While we are subjected to the night dream, everything seems to be real. If we see a tiger, we are afraid because we don’t know that we are creating the tiger. If we knew that we couldn’t possibly be afraid, could we? This demonstrates that an illusion can seem to be quite real while we are subjected to it, even though, when we become aware of its illusory nature, we understand that it was we who were creating it all along.” Francis Lucille, from Truth Love Beauty”
“Notice that the mind, in all its changes, has a changeless background.” Hale Dwoskin”
“There’s a fork in every moment. To be what you are or what you are not. You’re choosing in every second.”
“The majority of the time the mind is zoomed in and we are seeing the world through focused attention, which results in a very narrow and distorted perspective of the world.”
“You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word “God,” in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.”
“When you lose the eyes of ego you see with the eyes of God.” Mooji”
