Title: The Secret Author: Rhonda Byrne

It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen and bought for vast sums of money. This centuries-old Secret has been understood by some of the most prominent people in history: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie, Einstein – along with other inventors, theologians, scientists, and great thinkers. Now The Secret is being revealed to the world.

This book poses the question, 'what do you want?' or more correctly, 'why aren't you living out what you want?'

Bob Proctor, “The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness health and wealth. The Secret is the law of attraction.”

Which is the most powerful law in the Universe.

'The law responds to your thoughts, no matter what they may be... unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts.'

Bob Proctor, “If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.”

Mike Dooley, “Thoughts become things.”

Think of it like a TV. You might not understand exactly how it works, but you know that each channel has it's own images and stories. You have the power to change the channel. The images and stories you see are what make up your life. You have the power to change your thoughts, which is the power to change the channel. Every thought attracts more thoughts like it. What channel are you tuned in to? What thoughts do you have in your head?

John Assaraf, “Here's the problem, most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.”

'What you think about most is what will appear in your life. Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think.'

Michael Bernard Beckwith, “... it has been scientifically proven that an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought.”

'However, if you persist in thinking negative thoughts over a period of time, they will appear in your life.'

Dr. Joe Vitale, “You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your thoughts carefully...”

'To become aware of your thoughts, you can set the intention, “I am the master of my thoughts.” Say it often... and as you hold to that intention, by the law of attraction you must become that.'

Dr. J. Vitale, “Everything that surrounds you right now in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted... This is one of the hardest concepts to get, but once you've accepted it life transforms.”

'You have a choice, and whatever you chose to think about will become your life experience.'

Bob Doyle, “Most of us attract by default... our thoughts and feelings are on autopilot, and so everything is brought to us by default.”

Marci Shimoff, “It's impossible to monitor every thought we have... our feelings let us know what we're thinking.”

'It's impossible to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. If you don't make any effort to change your thoughts you are in effect saying, “Bring me more circumstances that will make me feel bad.”

Jack Canfield, “our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track [to our desires] or not...”

'When you're feeling bad it's communication from the Universe saying, “Warning! Change thinking now. Negative frequency recording. Change frequency (thoughts). Counting down to [negative] manifestation.” In that moment you are blocking your own good from coming to you because of the negative frequency of your thoughts. Change your thoughts and think about something good, and when good feelings start to come you will know it was because you shifted yourself on to a new frequency, and the Universe has confirmed it with better feelings.'

Bob Doyle, “If you start out having a good day and you're in that particular happy feeling, as long as you don't allow something to change your mood, you're going to continue to attract, by the law of attraction, more situations and people that sustain that happy feeling.”

Michael B. Beckwith, “It means that whatever thought has done in your life, it can be undone through a shift in your awareness.”

Dr. J. Vitale, “... the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good.”

Marci Shimoff, “Once you begin to understand and try to master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That’s where your freedoms is, that's where all your power is.”

B. Proctor, “Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using The Secret.”

'Up until now you may have been thinking that life is hard... and you have experienced life as hard... Begin right now to shout to the Universe, “Life is so easy! Life is so good! All good things come to me!”

Step One, Ask.

Dr. J. Vitale, “It's life having the Universe as your catalogue. You flip through it and say, “I'd like to have this experience and I'd like to have that product, and I'd like to have a person like that.” It's you placing an order with the Universe.”

B. Proctor, “Begin [every thought] with, 'I am so happy and grateful now that I have …..'”

Step Two, Believe.

Lisa Nichols, “Believe that it's already yours... act, speak and think as though you are receiving it now.”

Focusing on your lack of having it only brings more lack of having it. That is why you need to think like you already have it, to make it manifest in your life.

Dr. J. Vitale, “The Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen. You don't need to know how it's going to come about....”

Just believe and feel like it's already happened. Cling to the contentedness you'd feel if all your dreams were really happening in your life.

'When you are trying to work out how it will happen you are emitting a frequency that contains a lack of faith.'

B. Proctor, “You will attract the way.”

Step Three, Receive

Lisa Nichols, “The final stop in the process is to receive. Begin to feel wonderful about it. Feel the way you will feel once it arrives. Feel it now.”

Feel it to achieve it. Allow yourself to feel how good it would be to receive your desires.

'When you feel as though you have it now, and the feeling is so real that it is like you have it already, you are believing that you have received it, and you will receive. Imagine life as a fast-moving river. When you are active to make something happen it will feel as if you are going against the current of the river. It will feel hard and like a struggle. When you are acting to receive from the Universe, you will feel as if you are flowing with the current of the river. It will feel effortless. That is the feeling of inspired action, and of being in the flow of the Universe and life.'

Dr. J. Vitale, “The Universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, act. That is your job and that's all you have to do.”

'Trust your instincts... Remember, you are a magnet...'

Michael B. Beckwith, “You can start with nothing and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made.”

How long does it take?

Dr. J. Vitale, “It's... a matter of you being in alignment with the Universe.”

Are you aligned with the things that you want? Check your thoughts; your feelings will let you know.

You might argue that some are luckier than others. Those people simply expect to attract luck, and it works. They often receive good and lucky situations or things to prove that they are lucky, when really it was the belief that they were lucky in the first place that caused them to be lucky.

B. Proctor, “Desire connects you with the things desired and expectation draws it into your life.”

'Expect the things you want.'

Buddha, “All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”

Marci Shimoff, “Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.”

'Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of, 'not enough,' those feeling cannot bring you what you want. They can only return to you more of what you do not want. Make it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude in abundance, for the great day ahead as though it is done.'

Jack Canfield, “Our job is not to figure our the 'how.' The 'how' will show up our of a commitment and belief in the 'what.'”

Dr. J. Vitale, “What's really important to the whole Secret is feeling good... You want to be high, happy, in line, as much as possible.”

Marci Shimoff, “The only difference between people who live [The Secret] and those who don't is that [those who do] made a habit of using [The Secret] all the time.”

'The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!'

Lord Langemeier, “I grew up on 'You'll have to work hard for money.' So I replaced that with, 'Money comes easily and frequently.'”

'Any action we take must be preceded by a thought. Thoughts create the words we speak, the feelings we feel, and our actions. Actions are particularly powerful, because they are thoughts that caused us to act.'

'Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody. Attend to your joy first. When you tend to your own joy and do what makes you feel good, you are a joy to be around... and you will attract more joy. The reason you have to love you is because it's impossible to feel good if you don't love you. When you don't feel good about your, you are on a frequency that is attracting more people, situations, and circumstances that will continue to make you feel bad about you. All you have to do is begin with one prolonged thought of something good about you, and the law of attraction will respond by giving you more like thoughts.'

'All stress begins with one negative thought. The effect is stress. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it... with one, small, positive thought and then another. When we think negative thoughts we are cutting ourselves off from our rightful [abundance.] No matter what you have manifested you can change it. Start being happy. You have [to keep] your finger on the 'feeling happy' button. Press it, firmly, no matter what is happening around you.'

Lisa Nichols, “In our society [we fight] against things. Fight against cancer... poverty... war... drugs.. terrorism... violence. We fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight.”

'Don't try to change the outside pictures. You have to emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings to create new pictures. Everything in this world began with one thought. The bigger things get bigger because more people give their thoughts to it. If we took our minds off it and focused instead on love, it could not exist. Focus on everybody being in joy. Focus on an abundance of food. Give your powerful thoughts to what is wanted. You have the ability to give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-being.'

Michael B. Beckwith, “Energy flows where attention goes.”

Lisa Nichols, “It's not your job to change the world, or the people around you. It's your job to go with the flow inside the Universe and to celebrate it inside that world that exists.”

'Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited. But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them. So let all others create the life they want.'

Robert Collier, “If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or you do not understand the power that is yours.”

Praise and bless everything that is good and beautiful. 'When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love. The dictionary defines blessing as, “invoking divine favour and conferring well-being or prosperity.” So begin right now to invoke the power of blessing in your life, and bless everything and everyone. Likewise with praising, for when you are praising someone or something you are giving it love and as you emit that magnificent frequency, it will return to you a hundred-fold. Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so praise and bless your enemies. If you curse your enemies, the curse will come back to harm you.'

'Being energy, you also vibrate at a frequency and what determines your frequency is whatever you are thinking and feeling. All things you want are made of energy and when you think about what you want, and emit that frequency, you cause the energy of what you want and bring it to you. All you have to do is hold your mind on the end result and you will call it into being. As you ask and feel and believe you will receive. When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want the perfect people, circumstances and events will be attracted to you.'

All power is from within and therefore under our control.

Jack Canfield, “The real question is, 'what are you going to do now?' What do you chose now? When people start focusing on what they want what they don't want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears.”

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, “Every single 'I'm not,' is a creation.”

'Knowing this, would it be a good idea to begin to use the most powerful words, I AM, to your advantage? How about, “I AM receiving good things. I AM happy. I AM abundant. I AM healthy. I AM love. I AM Always on time. I AM eternal youth. I AM filled with energy every single day.”'

Affirmation: I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.

'When you are aware, you are in the present and you know what you are thinking. You have gained control of your thoughts, and that is where all your power is. All of your power is in your awareness of your power.'

Charles Haanel, “The real secret of power is consciousness of power.”

'The truth is that they Universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are aware. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside of you.'

Charles Haanel, “[that presence]... the 'I' is perfect and complete; [it] is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect. It can never have any lack, limitation or disease.”

Start attracting the things that you want today.

'Erase everything from the past that does not serve you. Do the things that you love and that bring you joy.'

Dr. John Hagelin, “So inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.”

The knowledge of The Secret is being given to you and what you do with it is entirely in your hands.

Morris Goodman, “And then you can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.”

'The only thing you need to do is feel good now.'

And go buy the book because there are more tricks, tips and tidbits than I could ever incorporate in this blog.

***Please note, single quotations, 'quote,' are meant to signify the authors voice where double quotations, “quote,” are to signify a direct quote from the corresponding speaker in the book.

This does not apply for quotations within quotations in which the reverse will be applied.

Ex. Speaker, “I read this great book once, 'The Secret.' t was powerful. It moved me.”