The Space Within Quotes

“Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the ‘white triangle’ we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, ‘Thought creates our world and then says, “I didn’t do it.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself – and there isn’t one.’ Wei Wu Wei”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“I am as f@#ked up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional (i.e., ‘FINE’) as the next person; however, it has surprisingly little impact on my enjoyment of life or effectiveness in the world.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“intellect is only one facet of the mind, and that beyond it is a universal intelligence which is freely available to each of us. If we’re willing to put down the book entitled My Mind, we can wander around the whole library and even access the thoughts of God.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home