“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we’re able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“you should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we’ve gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We’ve forgotten that we still don’t know what we’re surviving for.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“the First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one’s life, the feeling that some other process is operating.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“And when it comes to relationships, we’re so demanding that we’re making them near impossible.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“you’re going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“We’re all looking for more fulfillment in our lives, and we won’t put up with anything that seems to bring us down.”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“if the idea comes to you that”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“This restless searching is what’s behind the ‘me–first’ attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it’s affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs.” She”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
“why humans treat each other so violently. We’ve always known that this violence comes from the urge humans feel to control and dominate one another, but only recently have we studied this phenomenon from the inside, from the point of view of the individual’s consciousness. We have asked what happens inside a human being that makes him want to control someone else. We have found that when an individual walks up to another person and engages in a conversation, which happens billions of times each day in the world, one of two things can happen. That individual can come away feeling strong or feeling weak, depending on what occurs in the interaction.’ I gave him a puzzled look and he appeared slightly embarrassed at having rushed into a long lecture on the subject. I asked”
― James Redfield, quote from The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
Born place: in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
Born date March 19, 1950
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