James Redfield

“Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.”

“I'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what's going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths.”

“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”

“What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.”

“The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.”

“Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.”

“This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.”

“The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness—an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the “chance coincidences”—strange synchronistic events in our life. We begin to realize that some underlying process is operating our life.”

“I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.”

“We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.”

“Inspiration is what keeps us well.”

“...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”

“I didn't start a Celestine movement.”

“I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.”

“I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.”

“Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.”

“One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.”

“The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.”

“Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.”

“Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.”