Notes from Your Heart's Desire

My sister gave me the book Your Heart's Desire by Sonia Choquette for Christmas, and I recently finished it. Here are the parts I highlighted in it:

I felt I was failing to do my job correct if I was merely forecasting failure, not counseling toward success.

As I studied, I began to understand that awareness was the hidden key to success.

Remember that joy is found in creating, not in having.

[...] make a conscious choice to be receptive to experiencing your dream with each breath you take from this moment forward.

You need to protect your dreams by removing yourself from all nonsupportive influences, such as critical, jealous, or negative friends, abusive associations, and cynics who have hardened their hearts.

If your desire is prosperity, then remove yourself from poverty-minded people and circumstances in your path.

People mistakenly believe that their dreams need the approval of the people they love in order to manifest.

You can only be who you really are, and only you can give yourself permission to express it.

Pregnancy was simply a mechanical process to her.

She quit her job, started working freelance out of her home, and is now the mother of a beautiful baby boy.

As we begin to control our minds and believe in ourselves, we reawaken to the truth that we are spiritual beings and that, as such, Divine consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us.

If people cannot intellectually perceive answers, they rule out the possibility of answers existing.

You never know if you might not be asking an angel.

He played games with himself over what he chose to eat, reasoning, "I was good all week, so I just had to have a tiny reward."

Simply choose to let people know who you are, and let the Universe take care of the rest.

It's better to be honest and trust that people can adjust their needs if they must when you allow yourself to follow your heart.

You will help people far more by being true to yourself and living your dream than by being angry, bitter, and resentful.

In the second year she paid off her old debts, moved to a beautiful apartment, and was asked to be an outside consultant for a holistic health center as an intuitive diagnostician.

That is the secret of charisma--loving what you are doing so much that there is no drag, no resistance, no negativity, in your energy field.

[...] sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is nothing!

Faith comes as easily as breathing if you search for it through the eyes of your soul.

Your words are the full transference of your energy from psychic to physical expression. They are indeed the magic wand of creativity.

The amazing part is that in reality, creating illness, disappointment, and poverty takes much more effort than creating success.

It's always tempting to the ego to use intellectual knowledge to tell someone else how to create, because it is a convenient distraction from the work of creating your own happiness. This kind of effort doesn't create a thing for others or for you and therefore doesn't show up on the physical plane.

Keep your dreams protected by silence.

Stop defending your pain and disappointment with your words.

They say artists starve, actors wait tables, and writers can't survive.

From: From: Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want by Sonia Choquette, Three Rivers Press, 1997