Beckwith Quotes & Sayings

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer. — Michael Beckwith

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux. — Michael Beckwith

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire! — Michael Beckwith

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others. — Michael Beckwith

We are on the planet to ... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us ... — Michael Beckwith

The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self. — Michael Beckwith

Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until ... "? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment! — Michael Beckwith

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time. — Michael Beckwith

There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you. — Michael Beckwith

When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is. — Michael Beckwith

The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you — Michael Beckwith

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you. — Michael Beckwith

When you see the world that God sees, you see a world that is loving, compassionate, and filled with individuals who live together in harmony and peace. — Michael Beckwith

And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that's in the world. — Michael Beckwith

I know that within you there is an energy of forgiveness that forgives me and sets me free. My words and actions have no power over you. You are free and I am free. All is well between our spirits. Peace is the order of the day. — Michael Bernard Beckwith

It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. — Michael Beckwith

Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization that we have already arrived! — Michael Beckwith

It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! — Michael Beckwith

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted ... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life. — Michael Beckwith

When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over. — Michael Beckwith

Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing. — Michael Beckwith

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression. — Michael Beckwith

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self. — Michael Beckwith

Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured. — Michael Beckwith

Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy. Having less means hearing "No, you cannot have that," and we loathe being told what we can and cannot do. — Harry Beckwith

Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed. — Ulysses Grant Dietz

Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us. — Michael Beckwith

Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you. — Michael Beckwith

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before. — Michael Beckwith

Instead of telling God about your big problems, tell your problems about your big God. — Michael Beckwith

You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now. — Michael Beckwith

If the grass is greener somewhere else ... start watering your own lawn! — Michael Beckwith

Stop looking outside for help. You're sourced and fuelled and funded by a renewable resource, which is within you. It never runs out. It is your Essence. It's your life. — Michael Beckwith

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. — Michael Beckwith

Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it. — Michael Beckwith

We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade. We've forgotten that we are the light-the electricity and the luminosity that lights up every man, woman, and child. The light is who we truly are. — Michael Beckwith

This is our moment. This is our destiny. It's a good destiny — Michael Beckwith

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see. — Michael Beckwith

If you want love, love somebody. — Michael Beckwith

Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace. — Francis J. Beckwith

Know that you're coming from plentitude and abundance.
You lack nothing. You have star power. — Michael Beckwith

Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul. — Michael Beckwith

Today, continue to nourish your dreams. Hold fast to your vision and do something every day to bring it into manifestation. Everything is possible in God, because God is the infinite Possibility within everything. Know that you are God's Beloved in whom God is pleased. Never giving up on yourself is what it takes to be your own hero. — Michael Beckwith

Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult. — Michael Beckwith

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. — Michael Beckwith

There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing missing in us. Everything is for us and there is nothing against us. Let us remember this together. — Michael Beckwith

So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about God, morality, and science that they don't know they believe. In Three Theological Mistakes, Ric Machuga, with clarity and grace, explains the genesis of these mistakes and provides the intellectual tools by which we can recover from them. — Francis J. Beckwith

Nowadays, being "connected" means 24/7 availability. Emailing, texting, Twittering, calling, keeping one's website and Facebook status current seem essential to being and remaining relevant in the world. In addition to the positive impact of globally interconnecting humanity, the information era is also contributing to the creation of a high-tech, low-touch society. It is impacting language, the publishing world, education, and social revolts. Neurologists and other pundits, including Nicholas Carr in his Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", point out the paradoxical downsides of not setting healthy boundaries or applying discipline to how we engage technology. Some have gone so far as to suggest that it is making us "spiritually stupid" by keeping us too distracted to participate in spiritual practices. But how about this: can using technology with mindfulness lead to beneficial social and spiritual connection? — Michael Bernard Beckwith

You can begin to shape your own destiny by the attitude that you keep. — Michael Beckwith

There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, 'There's not enough good to go around. There's lack and there's limitation and there's just not enough.'

The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There's more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.

There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth. — Michael Beckwith

make a simple plan, inform everyone involved with it, don't change it, and kick it in the ass. — Charlie A. Beckwith

Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there. — Michael Beckwith

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith

Complaint is a prayer to the devil. — Michael Beckwith

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around. — Michael Beckwith

A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual. — Michael Beckwith

I am inspiring and activating others to wake up to their unique selves to anchor the next stage of our unfoldment. — Michael Beckwith

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. — Michael Beckwith

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed. — Michael Beckwith

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening. — Michael Beckwith

So as you are beginning your day anchor yourself in the truth. Know that all is well. Extend this to your friends, colleagues and all that you meet. That life is for YOU! It is never against you. — Michael Beckwith

Happiness is the natural state of our being — Michael Beckwith

Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you. — Michael Beckwith

Problems can only exist if they have your attention. — Michael Beckwith

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden! — Michael Beckwith

When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty. — Michael Beckwith

The beautiful thing about the law of attraction is that you can begin where you are, and you can begin to think, real thinking, and you can begin to generate within yourself a feeling tone of harmony and happiness. The law will begin to respond to that. — Michael Beckwith

Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up. — Michael Beckwith

Mediocrity always attacks excellence — Michael Beckwith

Lasting happiness starts with one question ... what can I celebrate? — Michael Beckwith

There's an old saying that God made us in His image, and we've been trying to return the favor ever since. People often view God in a human image. This God changes His mind, gets upset, answers some prayers but not others, loves some people but not others. But even with that limited image, if we pray sincerely, we'll eventually realize that God is changeless. He's the same all the time because He's not in time-time is in Him. — Michael Beckwith

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience. — Michael Beckwith

There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships, it can be vastly complicated. Each of us has our own unique love-history, perceptions, and expectations. — Michael Beckwith

I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships. — Michael Beckwith

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mrs. Beckwith turning over her sketches under the lamp. Then, being tired, her mind still rising and falling with the sea, the taste and smell that places have after long absence possessing her, the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under. It was a wonderful night, starlit; the waves sounded as they went upstairs; the moon surprised them, enormous, pale, as they passed the staircase window. She had slept at once. — Virginia Woolf

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts. — Michael Beckwith

I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure. — Michael Beckwith

We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit. — Michael Beckwith

Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself ... Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born. — Michael Beckwith

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package. — Michael Beckwith

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you. — Michael Beckwith

This is the great Secret of life. — Michael Beckwith

At some point you have to own up to how
great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and
potential you have. Drop complaining about what other people didn't give
you or do for you, or how they mistreated you. Take repossession of
your Self and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours
all along. — Michael Beckwith

We are pushed by pain until we are pulled by vision. — Michael Beckwith

You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness. — Michael Beckwith

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself. — Michael Beckwith

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit. — Michael Beckwith

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. — Michael Beckwith

Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. — Michael Beckwith

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be. — Michael Beckwith

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you. — Michael Beckwith

Don't listen to what I'm saying. Listen to what I'm listening to. — Michael Bernard Beckwith

Happiness is a natural state of being. — Michael Beckwith

When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source! — Michael Beckwith

I would like to emphasize that this book does not belong to any existing view, school, or field, as far as I am aware, so that it does not subscribe to any tradition walled off from the rest of intellectual life. It therefore has no gatekeepers, clad in the traditional metaphorical chain-mail armor and bearing the traditional metaphorical halberd, proclaiming threats to their perceived enemies in archaic languages, dedicated to keeping new knowledge out and stamping out all possible threats to those inside its walls so that the residents can safely continue their traditional beliefs without the necessity of thinking about them. — Christopher I. Beckwith

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind. — Michael Beckwith

J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed by his insights and wondering, 'Why didn't I think of that?' And then it dawns on me, 'That's what C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton do to me as well.' The Line Through the Heart is another destination in J. Budziszewski's philosophical quest to lead his readers to the promised land of the good, the true, and the beautiful, to guide us to that place where we have always been but can't seem to find. — Francis J. Beckwith

We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity — Michael Beckwith

When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet. — Michael Beckwith

Within our core self is an indelible blueprint of unrivaled individuality - the singular being that each of us exists to express. In this three-dimensional movie called "Life" there are no stand-ins, body doubles, or understudies - no one can fill in for us by proxy! Realization of this truth alone eliminates the need to imitate, conform, limit, or betray our loyalty to the originality of Self. Imagine the relief of removing your carefully crafted masks fashioned by societal forms of conditioning and instead responding to what comes into your experience directly from your Authentic Self. One of the first principles to honor in your relationship with yourself is to respect and trust your own inner voice. This form of trust is the way of the heart, the epitome of well-being. — Michael Bernard Beckwith