The Miracle Club Quotes

“As I said, I decided to try an experiment: Right now, from within my perception of my current circumstances, and from within the starkness of this realization, I determined to conceive and focus on what I would tell—and what I have told—my younger self, and live with the consequences. Here is what I wrote down: Immediately disassociate from destructive people and forces, if not physically then ethically—and watch for the moment when you can do so physically. Use every means to improve your mental acuity. Every sacrifice of empty leisure or escapism for study, industry, and growth is a fee paid to personal freedom. Train the body. Grow physically strong. Reduce consumption. You will be strengthened throughout your being. Seek no one’s approval through humor, servility, or theatrics. Be alone if necessary. But do not compromise with low company. At the earliest possible point, learn meditation (i.e., Transcendental Meditation), yoga, and martial arts (select good teachers). Go your own way—literally. Walk/bike and don’t ride the bus or in a car, except when necessary. Do so in all weather: rain, snow, etc. Be independent physically and you will be independent in other ways. Learn-study-rehearse. Pursue excellence. Or else leave something alone. Go to the limit in something or do not approach it. Starve yourself of the compulsion to derive your sense of wellbeing from your perception of what others think of you. Do this as an alcoholic avoids a drink or an addict a needle. It will be agonizing at first, since you may have no other perception of self; but this, finally, is the sole means of experiencing Self. Does this kind of advice, practicable at any time of life, really alter or reselect the perceived past, and, with it, the future? I intend to find out. You”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Practicality and protest go hand in hand. The revolution does not solve my problems next Thursday. For that, I need help that conforms to the boundaries we currently live in, while fighting to expand them. After all these years of the American left wandering in the wilderness, does this really require restating?”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“I challenge you: Select one sacred or ethical book. Live by its principles for nine months. Dedicate yourself to its ideal with total commitment and unreserved abandon. Attempt, for a time, to live a principle-based life, as James Allen did. See what happens.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“So to recap the formula: First, clarify a sincere and deeply felt desire. Second, enter a state of relaxed immobility, bordering on sleep. Third, enact a mental scene that contains the assumption and feeling of your wish fulfilled. Run the little drama over and over in your mind until you experience a sense of fulfillment. Then resume your life. Evidence of your achievement will unfold at the right moment in your outer experience.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“The common denominator in all placebo experiments is the presence of hopeful expectancy. Whether this arrives through moral support, credible encouragement, education, religious belief, anticipation of reward, or a combination, the arousal of expectancy is the catalyzing event. Belief is the fee of actualization.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Wattles wrote of him: Mr. Debs reverences humanity. No appeal for help is ever made to him in vain. No one receives from him an unkind or censorious word. You cannot come into his presence without being made sensible of his deep and kindly personal interest in you. Every person, be he millionaire, grimy workingman, or toil worn woman, receives the radiant warmth of a brotherly affection that is sincere and true. No ragged child speaks to him on the street without receiving instant and tender recognition. Debs loves men. This has made him the leading figure in a great movement, the beloved hero of a million hearts, and will give him a deathless name.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“The one certainty we can derive from the new findings in placebo science is that the energies of the mind play a greater and more varied role in health than clinicians previously realized. The data stream allows us to document this phenomenon but not fully explain it. The common denominator in all placebo experiments is the presence of hopeful expectancy. Whether this arrives through moral support, credible encouragement, education, religious belief, anticipation of reward, or a combination, the arousal of expectancy is the catalyzing event. Belief is the fee of actualization.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“adjunct to the Golden Rule could be: You become what you do not forgive.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“It begins with one absolutely dedicated goal.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“We’re often told that you should never give up on your dreams, and I agree with that—but at the same time your dreams must not be idle or fantastical, and they must employ powers that are within your reach.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Is everything else in your life secondary to this? Then write it down as your goal.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Contrary to many purveyors of spiritual self-help, I reject the notion that we can become anything we dream of. Not all desires are realistic. You must possess the willingness and ability to begin, and to forge ahead on your own.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Your aim must be specific, concrete, and plain. It must be achievable, even if greatly bold.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“In short, it involves saying a traditional Rosary prayer in two cycles: first, in petition of your request for 27 days, and second, in thanksgiving for another 27 days, for a total 54 days.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“If you believe in the intercession of a Higher Power, as I do, use the language of your heart. Whether demanding, lovingly requesting, arguing, or pleading, there is no wrong way to pray, just as there is no wrong way to affirm.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“I think it’s vital to resort to prayer—in a direct appeal to the Higher—when we feel incapable of mustering a feeling-state of fulfillment or the ability to use our minds constructively.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Moreover, I think that our network of psychologically conditioned fears and reactive emotions are sometimes impossible to break through without resorting to prayer. As a prerequisite to visualization and other methods, there are times when we must pray for respite from emotional habits, anxieties, and compulsions that becloud our psyches and sap our energies and enterprise. We need help to pierce the shell of our own psychological limitations in order to embark on the path of using the mind in a creative, generative manner.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“His Methods in Mind Power approach to prayer was to make demands on God and the saints: “You must, you must, you must!”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“He wrote this in “Cancer, Psychosomatic Illness, and Hysteria” in the Lancet of November 7, 1981: In medicine we no longer expect to find a single cause for a disease; rather we expect to find a multiplicity of factors, organic and psychological. It is not suggested that psychological reactions, either psychosomatic or hysterical, are a direct cause of cancer. But it seems likely that reactions resembling those of psychosomatic illness and conversion hysteria operate as causes of cancer, more so in some cases than in others, and that they operate in conjunction with the known chemical, viral, and radiational causes of the disease.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Why does the listing of a sum and date make any difference? Well, it’s far more than just jotting down a number and date. You must have that sum and deadline firmly in mind and fully embrace them as goals. It makes you honest and focused about what you desire. The sum should be believably attainable to you. It must be inwardly persuasive. There are always opportunities to go further—but be reasonable at first so that you do not pit the faculties of logic in opposition to your goal.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“if you recede into laziness, procrastination, dishonesty, exaggeration, or entitlement, the circle of productivity will correspondingly recede and so will the flow of finances to you. (And note that the things I’ve just mentioned are usually forms of fear.)”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“My conviction is that the true nature of life is to be generative. I believe that in order to be happy, human beings must exercise their fullest range of abilities—including the exertions of outer achievement.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“In the period since I wrote that sum, I have listed another sum yet further off in the future. As I am writing these words, certain unforeseeable forms of income have flowed to me in considerable amounts, and I’ve turned away other offers for reasons of preference and time management.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“You must know exactly what you want to accomplish, and you must feel it passionately, even obsessively. You must be willing to turn aside everything and everyone who doesn’t contribute to your realization of that aim.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Your mind is a creative agency, and the thoughts with which you impress it contribute to the actualized events of your existence—including money.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Can a person by holding certain thoughts create wealth? Yes, he can. A man by holding certain thoughts—if he knows the Law that relates effect and cause on the mental plane—can actually create wealth by the character of thoughts he entertains.” But, she added, such thought “must be supplemented by courageous action.” Never omit that.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Therapists have observed that the commitment itself, and the willingness it represents to charge at a problem with all available resources, is therapeutically meaningful. The sense of moral agency that arises when you cross a threshold, when you commit to withholding nothing in pursuit of a solution, can amount to the solution that is sought. The mental act is catalyzing. I”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Another trait that diverts our energies is conformity. We nest within our own subcultures and their attendant social and news media. We repeat what we’re supposed to want, or what we claim to value, often (and sometimes subtly) parroting what we think makes us look good to others. We stand for nothing. Hence, we never realize what we’re capable of.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“When you indulge in fantasies of revenge, such as telling others off or score settling—which, frankly, make up an alarming amount of my passive or associative thoughts—you not only shackle yourself to past wrongs, but also to the wrongs that you would do in exchange. Your acts of violation toward another, whether by mind, talk, emotion, or hand, reenact themselves in your psyche and perceptions. You are lowered to the level of people you resent or even hate when you counter—mentally or otherwise—their type of behavior. An adjunct to the Golden Rule could be: You become what you do not forgive.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

“Stated in another way, every act and every thought you release modifies your own character in exact conformity with the nature of the act or thought, and your character is a sort of center of magnetic attraction, which attracts to you the people and conditions that harmonize with it. You cannot indulge in an act toward another person without having first created the nature of that act in your own thought, and you cannot release a thought without planting the sum and substance and nature of it in your own subconscious mind, there to become a part and parcel of your own character.”
― Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality