Michael Neill Quotes & Sayings

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

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life. — Michael Neill

If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen. — Michael Neill

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking. — 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

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

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole. — Michael Neill

Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future. — Michael Neill

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

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important. — Michael Neill

Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want. — Michael Neill

When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams. — Michael Neill

There aren't enough cookies in the world to make you feel loved and whole. — Michael Neill

You are the expert on you. — Michael Neill

Urgency is insecurity. — Michael Neill

We create other people by how we listen to them — Michael Neill

You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think. — Michael Neill

The secret of happiness is simply this ... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want. — Michael Neill

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment. — 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 universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle ... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it. — Michael Neill

You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do. — Michael Neill

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of ... we are afraid of what we think. — Michael Neill

To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life. — Michael Neill

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life. — Michael Neill

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience. — Michael Neill

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river. — Michael Neill

We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off. — Michael Neill

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want. — Michael Neill

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy. — Michael Neill