Maxwell Maltz Quotes

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Thought makes reality.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.