Explore Quotes by James Redfield

You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

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

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

It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.

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

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.

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

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

We all have times that we get off center.

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams.

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.

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

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.