Seth quotes

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?

Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.

Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.

It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite the conscious mind with the other portions of your being.

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own.

We see what we believe, not the other way around.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror. What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

As I have told you before, in a manner of speaking you are given the gifts of gods. Your beliefs become reality. What you believe is, and becomes real in your experience. There is no area in your life to which this does not apply.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.

The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.

The present is the point of power.

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

You do not hate anyone you are not capable of loving. Remember that.

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold of your entire consciousness in whatever aspect it shows itself in this life. Through all of this you must realize that you are not powerless. Remember, also, that this life is a dimension of experience and reality even if it is, in contrast, a dream in a higher level of reality in which you have your larger consciousness.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.

The ends do not justify the means

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams; according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

In the next life you will be working with those attitudes that are now yours.

Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

You create your reality. You will find this freedom by learning to look inward, and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. There are no exceptions to this rule. Your successes and your failures alike, you have yourselves created. If you would but understand, this is the truth that would make you free.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.

Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You can’t afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing messages, in large groups, and hope that some will send you money. Instead, the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.

It's easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back.

The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

I don't care how many friends you have on Facebook or how many followers you have on Twitter. Those are not actual friends or truly followers. I care about how many people will miss you if you're not back here again tomorrow.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

Try is the opposite of hiding.

You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.