87 Quotes & Sayings By Eric Michael Leventhal

Eric Michael Leventhal is the founder and director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, now celebrating its 21st year as a nonprofit organization. He is also the author of The Napoleon Hill Reader: Classic Writings from the Foundation. Prior to founding the Foundation, Eric was a licensed attorney and corporate executive. As an attorney, he represented Fortune 500 companies, state and local governments, and individuals in many areas of business and litigation Read more

He has served as chair of several national and international law and business-related organizations including the American Bar Association's Committee on Corporate Governance and the Business Committee for National Security. Eric received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. He resides in New York City with his wife, Julie, and their three children.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for...
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Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love. Eric Michael Leventhal
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create...
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The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating. Eric Michael Leventhal
We are at our most powerful the moment we no...
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We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. Eric Michael Leventhal
True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing...
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True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly. Eric Michael Leventhal
Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them...
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Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. Eric Michael Leventhal
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In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics. Eric Michael Leventhal
We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether...
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We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free. Eric Michael Leventhal
To experience what isn't, love what is.
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To experience what isn't, love what is. Eric Michael Leventhal
Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(...
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Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.( One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.) Eric Michael Leventhal
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The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it. The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it! Eric Michael Leventhal
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Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts. Eric Michael Leventhal
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You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions. Eric Michael Leventhal
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In the search for truth, what you believe matters lessthan how you believe. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Either nobody's perfect, or everyone is. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The question isn't whether the world is perfect. The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it? Eric Michael Leventhal
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Feeling bad is not the problem. The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad. Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad, and start feeling better about feeling bad, then pretty soon you'll just feel better. And then you'll feel awesome. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun. Eric Michael Leventhal
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You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship. Eric Michael Leventhal
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As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be. Eric Michael Leventhal
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True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. Eric Michael Leventhal
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A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses. Eric Michael Leventhal
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When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul. Eric Michael Leventhal
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No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Love is the highest form of meditation. Eric Michael Leventhal
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A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment. Eric Michael Leventhal
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What matters in relationship isn't how you see each other, but whether you see each other. Eric Michael Leventhal
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All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing. Eric Michael Leventhal
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We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality. Eric Michael Leventhal
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With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists. Eric Michael Leventhal
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All work done with love is healing work. Eric Michael Leventhal
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He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves. Eric Michael Leventhal
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It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded. But if you knew this secret from the start, then you'd have quit this Game before you played it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something. Eric Michael Leventhal
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What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Acceptance is the vessel of realization. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness. Eric Michael Leventhal
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In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole. Eric Michael Leventhal
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As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection. Eric Michael Leventhal
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If you want to see, then begin to see how you see. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human? Eric Michael Leventhal
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To the ego, love is poison. Eric Michael Leventhal
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To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. Eric Michael Leventhal
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We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been. Eric Michael Leventhal
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At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us. Eric Michael Leventhal
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无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.) Eric Michael Leventhal
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The less human you feel, the more human you become. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. Eric Michael Leventhal
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From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do. Eric Michael Leventhal
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I knew I loved youwhen 'home' went from being a placeto being a person. Eric Michael Leventhal
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There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light. Eric Michael Leventhal
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All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. Eric Michael Leventhal
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I never realized it was all a game, until I started winning. Eric Michael Leventhal
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I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her. Eric Michael Leventhal