Phil Stutz

True individuality can only be gained through discipline and submission. Not submission to an individual, but to a higher form of authority that is presented to us in the specific demands of life itself.

Commit to this training and you will gain the ability to transmute your biggest problems, your darkest days, into unstoppable courage, endless enthusiasm and an unshakable faith in the future. This program will change your life. And, if enough of us commit, it will change the world.

Human beings are only happy when they are reaching toward their highest potential. Paracelsus, a Renaissance physician and mystic, put it this way: 'Happiness does not consist in laziness... In labour and in sweat must each man use the gifts that God conferred upon him on earth.'

Instead of seeing problems as an expression of a 'condition' whose cause was in the past, we needed to see them as catalysts for developing forces that were already present, lying dormant inside us.

But you’re not really free until all hope for magic is crushed.

To put it simply, love is a process. All processes require endless work because perfection is never achieved. Accepting this fact is not thrilling, but it is the first step to happiness. You can work on finding satisfaction in your relationship the same way you’d work on your piano playing or your garden.

If changing your life were only a matter of attitude, you wouldn’t need this book. Real change requires you to change your behavior—not just your attitude.

That is the essence of an addiction: we try to fill an infinite hole with a finite experience.

If enough of us commit, it will change the world.

I began to understand what faith really meant: faith is the confidence that higher forces are always there to help when you need them.

Your primary emotional responsibility is to keep yourself in a positive state, no matter what’s happening around you. ... We all have the ability to do this—to generate an enthusiastic, inspired sense of life no matter what circumstances we’re in.

When you have an instinct, you must train yourself to act on it immediately. This activates the cycle and puts you in touch with the creative forces of the universe. These forces will change your state at the very moment you take the action. Whether you succeed or fail is irrelevant.

To put it more simply, Part X invents problems that we don’t really have, and creates solutions that only make those problems worse.

He was trapped by the illusion that he could live without demands or commitments, that it was possible to live a life that was stress-free. Paradoxically, nothing creates more stress than the desire to avoid stress.

The more persistently you fight Part X, the more you feel the bracing wind of life’s limitless potential. Your problems no longer stop you—they energize you to work even harder for your aspirations.

Demoralization is like a boulder beginning to roll down a steep hill. The secret is to stop it the moment it starts to roll, so you prevent it from picking up speed. By the time it’s halfway down the hill, it has so much momentum you will struggle to stop it. Get into the habit of using... the tool the moment the negative thoughts and feelings start.

If fate is woven of a series of events, then mental health is the ability to accept our fate with enthusiasm.

If there is a key to influencing the future, it’s through bold action.

The reason you can’t commit to anything is because it hurts you too much if it fails. Success means putting everything on the line and, if it doesn’t work out, doing it again. And again. No blaming. No excuses.

Real success is the aliveness you feel when you create something new. It has nothing to do with external results. Success occurs when you inhabit a space in the universe where you connect with flow.

To reiterate: as human beings we are given access to the infinite, but we have to work for it; it doesn’t come for free.

It’s your actions, more than your thoughts, that dictates who wins.

Until you can control your mind, you’re spiritually immature.

Real happiness is the constant presence of higher forces in our lives.

Life is uncertain, often painful, and most of all an endless process requiring work. Nonetheless, it is human nature to cling to the illusion that we can live in an alternate reality where life is easy.

Lasting peace of mind can only come from a connection to the Source.

Your Life Force gets stronger as you conquer each obstacle, and the overall trajectory of your life is one of ascension.