Peter McWilliams Quotes (49 Quotes)

This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

The value of action is that we make mistakes mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real -- a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies . Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. Arresting people for medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have enough fortitude and they probably wouldn't succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.

To affirm is to make firm.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

Feeling right is a strong drug. Some people sacrifice a lot to be right. Ever hear the expression dead right

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.