This book has changed the way I view the world. I like to re-read The Secret at least once a year. I own the book, audio book, and film. I will openly admit that there are some ideas, phrases and quotes that cause me to laugh out loud, but the overall message of the book is one of optimism, gratitude, love and power. The sequel, The Power is likewise amazing.
I believe thoughts are powerful and the general idea of The Law of Attraction - that we attract things to us whether positive or negative by what we are focusing on, just makes sense. We create our lives by thoughts and ideas put into action. I feel this book is worth reading - it might just change your outlook on life. The Secret would fall into Self-Help or Metaphysical categories.
After re-reading The Secret in Fall 2019, I decided to finally look into some source material by reading Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness. I really enjoyed the book, read the title twice in 2020 as well as all other Jerry and Esther Hicks books. Eventually I intend to read other related works such as: The Science of Getting Rich,Think and Grow Rich etc.
I read The Secret an unprecedented three times in 2020. During a global pandemic, I found myself stressed due to uncertainty. In 2021, I saw the connections to the newest installment: The Greatest Secret
I believe that every experience, interaction, film watched, book read affects our lives in some way, however seemingly insignificant. I also believe that an intelligent individual can take the ideas presented in The Secret, What the Bleep, The Law of Attraction etc. and with discernment decide which can benefit their unique life.
Favorite Quotes:
You are now receiving the knowledge that will enable you to create the most magnificent version of You. The possibility of that version of you already exists on the frequency of "the most magnificent version of You." Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become your life.
-Rhonda Byrne
Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life, you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life."
-Rhonda Byrne
Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.
-John Assaraf
Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced . . . Now you are learning The Secret, and with this knowledge, you can change everything.
-Rhonda Byrne
When you focus your thoughts on something you want, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning what you want with the mightiest power in the Universe. The law of attraction doesn't compute "don't" or "not" or "no," or any other words of negation.
-Rhonda Byrne
Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.
-Michael Bernard Beckwith
If you're feeling good, then you're creating a future that's on track with your desires. If you're feeling bad, you're creating a future that's off track with your desires. As you go about your day, the law of attraction is working in every second. Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.
-Marci Shimoff
You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill
There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.
- Rhonda Byrne
That a man can change himself....and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.
- Christian D. Larson
You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.
-Dr. Joe Vitale
You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want. This is your work. If you're not clear, then the law of attraction cannot bring you what you want. You will be sending out a mixed frequency and you can only attract mixed results. For the first time in your life perhaps, work out what it is you really want. Now that you know you can have, be, or do anything, and there are no limits, what do you want?
-Rhonda Byrne
All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
- Buddha
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the Universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.
-Wallace Wattles
The Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.
-Dr. Joe Vitale
Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want, because we can't see how it's going to manifest.
-Jack Canfield
We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
-Genevieve Behrend
The only difference between people who live in this way, who live in the magic of life, and those who don't is that the people who live in the magic of life have habituated ways of being. They've made a habit of using the law of attraction, and magic happens with them wherever they go. Because they remember to use it. They use it all the time, not just as a one-time event.
-Marci Shimoff
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important that what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make a list of some Secret Shifters to have up your sleeve. By Secret Shifters, I mean things that can change your feelings in a snap. It might be beautiful memories, future events, funny moments, nature, a person you love, your favorite music. Then if you find yourself angry or frustrated or not feeling good, turn to your Secret Shifters list and focus on one of them. Different things will shift you at different times, so if one doesn't work, go to another. It only takes a minute or two of changing focus to shift yourself and shift your frequency.
- Rhonda Byrne
Time is just an illusion. Einstein told us that. If this is the first time you have heard it, you may find it a hard concept to get your head around, because you see everything happening - one thing after the other. What quantum physicists and Einstein tell us is that everything is happening simultaneously. If you can understand that there is no time, and accept that concept, then you will see that whatever you want in the future already exists. If everything is happening at the one time, then the parallel version of you with what you want already exists!
-Rhonda Byrne
It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.
-Charles Haanel
There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that Truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer. You know that inherently, because you feel awful when you are experiencing the lack of good things. All good things are your birthright! You are the creator of you, and the law of attraction is your magnificent tool to create whatever you want in your life. Welcome to the magic of life, and the magnificence of You!
-Rhonda Byrne
When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humor, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.
-Prentice Mulford
Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it.
-Jack Canfield
You must stop and move yourself off that frequency. Take a few moments and shift yourself . . .
-Rhonda Byrne
A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances. Whatever your circumstances right now, that is only your current reality, and current reality will begin to change as a result of beginning to use The Secret.
-Dr. Joe Vitale
"That man can change himself . . . and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."
- Christian D. Larson
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and all good things will be yours.
-Rhonda Byrne
The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
-Wallace Wattles
You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that car. Not "I wish I could get that car," or, "Some day I'll have that car," because that's a very definite feeling associated with that. It's not in the now, It's in the future. If you stay in that feeling, it will always be in the future.
-Bob Doyle
Now that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway through which the power of the Universe will begin to express.
-Michael Bernard Beckwith
Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up out of a commitment and belief in the what.
-Jack Canfield
The "hows" are the domain of the Universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.
-Mike Dooley
If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.
-Dr. Joe Vitale
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 have caused us to act.
-Rhonda Byrne
"Whatever the mind . . . can conceive it can achieve."
- W. Clement Stone
There is a big difference between giving and sacrifice. Giving from a heart that is overflowing feels so good. Sacrificing does not feel good. Don't confuse the two - they are diametrically opposed. One emits a signal of lack and the other emits a signal of more-than-enough. One feels good and one does not feel good. Sacrifice will eventually lead to resentment. Giving from a full heart is one of the most joyous things you can do, and the law of attraction will grab hold of that signal and flood even more into your life. You can feel the difference.
-Rhonda Byrne
Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that "looking out for Number One", as directed by the Infinite, is really looking out for Number Two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit Number Two.
-Prentice Mulford
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs, and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power within the world.
-Michael Bernard Beckwith
I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.
-Charles Haanel
Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That's what it is. And if just experience joy sitting there and meditating for an hour, by golly, do that. If you experience joy eating a salami sandwich, then do that!
-Neale Donald Walsch
When I pet my cat I'm in a state of joy. When I walk in nature I'm in a state of joy. So I want to constantly put myself in that state, and when I do, then all I have to do is have the intention of what I want, and what I want manifests.
-Jack Canfield
Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!
-Bob Proctor
Most of the leaders in the past missed the great part of The Secret, which is to empower and share with others.
This is the best time to have ever been alive in history. It's the first time we've ever had the power to gain knowledge at our fingertips.
-Dr. Denis Waitley
With this knowledge you are becoming aware - of the truth of the world, and yourself. My greatest insights into The Secret on the subject of the world came form the teachings of Robert Collier, Prentice Mulford, Charles Haanel, and Michael Bernard Beckwith. With that understanding came total freedom. I truly hope that you can come to the place of the same freedom. If you can, then through your existence and the power of your thoughts, you will bring the greatest good to this world and to the future of all humankind.
-Rhonda Byrne
Divine Mind is the one and only reality
-Charles Fillmore
The real secret of power is consciousness of power.
-Charles Haanel
To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You.
-Rhonda Byrne
So inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.
-Dr. John Hagelin
You will live in a different reality, a different life. And people will look at you and say, "What do you do different from me?" Well, the only thing that is different is that you work with The Secret.
-Marie Diamond
You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You! The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.
-Rhonda Byrne
