Robert N. Anthony Quotes

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Does our hand show in this?

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

You create your own universe as you go along.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.