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From:
Luisa Fernanda Nino, Ontario, Canada.
 What an inspiration! I am very thankful to have had the
chance to preview this book.
Of all the sections I have ever read, Chapter 9, this is
the most impactful, strong, and clear. I
finally understood what meditation is all about: not acting
on your thoughts. I finally understood
how using the discipline of selective action frees the world
from the ego in you. I finally understood,
exactly and clearly how to act (or perhaps better said not act)
on simple thoughts. With the example
of the thoughts of toys that are no longer useful, I
finally understood how selecting a single guiding
principle to always rule your actions, can guide you to take
actions only aligned with that principle
until it becomes a discipline. For whatever reason, this
chapter totally connected the dots for me.
Last night I worked non-stop until midnight, such was
the impact of this piece! I couldn't stop until
it was complete. Thank you for giving the world clarity
about the ego and how many of our thoughts
can be simply disregarded.
Thank you very much for this clarity! ~ Luisa.
From: Patricia
Hampton, San Diego, California.
As I continue to read your book I am stunned and awed
by its insightfulness. I have been somewhat
of a wandering sadhu and a "spiritual harlot"
for 40 years and have never seen such depth of under-
standing of the subconscious (conditioned) mind. (I even
took in a one-year hypnotherapy school to
try and understand myself). Also, you indicate a
direction out of the conditioned mind, without
elaborate techniques. I can't tell you how grateful I am to find
your teaching.
It has made so many
things clearer for me. I thought that it would be
impossible to reprogram all the years of the past and
each minute dysfunction. I knew clearly how thinking
got you there, but didn't know how to get out
of the trap. Even without yet knowing the exercises you
give, except the stillness body meditation,
just rising above the conditioned mind with "I am
free" is a relief. Now I know not to get dragged
back into the conditioned mind. I just re-read Chapter 10.
I really like the planetary analogy and
artwork. I think the gurus had it all backwards, body
stillness should be first, as you suggest.
For me, it all hinges on As soon as you admit that you are
free, you are.
From: Lynnda
Pollio: NYC
I just got back from the gym where your booj was
bouncing around in my head and I think,
for me, what rang truly unique from other books similar
to Power and Grace was the idea of
attentive action. So many of these books live in the
ether. It's about affirmation, thought and
surrender. Ultimately it's the responsibility of the spirit -
not us. Your book puts the
responsibility clearly in our hands but provides powerful tools
to help the reader. We can think
and pray about everything else but ultimately we must take
conscious action for our lives to
change. Accepting this responsibility is HUGE and in doing so shifts
all other energies to support
our action. Thanks! You've motivated me to take action in my
own life instead of waiting for the
and pray about everything else but ultimately we
must take conscious action for our lives to
universe to do it for me...
From: Rogier
in NYC
I think that Mick Quinn very nearly is to Buddhism what
Helen Schucman and ACIM are to
Christianity - blasting a path to psychological/spiritual
integration and obliterating the old dualistic
misinterpretations of the teachings of the Buddha and Jesus
respectively. My path definitely is ACIM,
but I'm enjoying your work tremendously. Very interesting how a
different way of saying things,
which essentially are familiar really shook me up, and right
now I'm quite clear that just reading,
proofing your material has been like a breath of fresh air.
From: Maria
Chella, Santiago, Spain.
 I
wish to thank you for the simplicity and clarity of the meditation
instructions! Today I saw a great
light in a vast emptiness. I went towards it, yet in a
moment the light became an arrow and it came
to me. It crossed right through me, and then I was full
of light as if I were rising, both in the universe,
and as the universe. Yet I never lost my unique point of perception.
There seemed to be no difference
between the observer and the observed. I even wanted to cry -
not for the pain, but for the
overwhelming sense of emotion. It was very strong. Now
I am "new", like a rose.
But
this experience was different from the first one that happened,
just weeks after I began meditating.
I cannot remember that experience at all, because I was
‘gone’ for 50 minutes. I don’t know where,
and I cannot tell you anything about it - only that when I
opened my eyes time had advanced one hour.
The kind of emotion in this latest meditation is impossible to
explain with words. What is clear, though,
is that I now know of a great sorrow - that other people do
not know of this potential in themselves.
Because of this, I am sure about my job from now to the end of my
life: to help people who do not
know that this kind of joy and completeness is possible, to be
able to know for themselves.
It
was a gift from the universe, and now I have to respond to
it.
From: Ann,
Colorado, USA.
Your writing has given me cause to re-evaluate my perceptions of
life. As I read about conditioning, I
wonder if some conditioning isn't necessary to give humans a
framework in which to experience their
world. However, we have taken it to the extreme of
believing that it is all and everything. We often
make a similar mistake with language. Language is a tool
humans created to convey ideas. But we
have come to fancy the tool more than its purpose. These
superficialities of life create the veil that
keeps the light from shining through.
From: Bill Dowling,
Illinois, USA.
I have been on the path for years and have to
admit that I had grown somewhat cynical, especially of
a writer who is twenty-five years my junior. I was quite
shocked at first to find out much clarity the
values section of this writing brought to my decision
making process.
I always knew that I had different values to do with
different parts of my life, but I had no idea the
extent to which the ego manipulates this, keeping me
from sustaining joy in my life.
That shock turned to humility and for a time I could actually see
the possibility of my own freedom.
Then the humility was overrun by fear. But this time it was
becoming clearer to me that this was the
ego rushing back in to try and take control of my life
all over again. This time though I have learned
to be equipped with a very valuable tool that allows me to to
go about my day in peace, with one
watchful eye on the ego and its long list of fears and
desires because now I know what it is I am
looking for. For years the ego was in charge of quest for freedom
and I did not even know it. I know
when I have to make a decision I now have to choose to place
my desire for joy first, in front of the
ego and its hankerings. And, yes, it screams, it fights,
and then it stops!
The result is none less than magical. Thank you.
From: Jessica Franks, Montana,
USA.
How lucky we will be to have a touchstone for the knowledge Mr. Quinn has gained
in his life.
He has performed no miracles thus far, except for
showing others that they can. How often do we
want to manifest change and get stuck in analysis?
I know personally the impetus that Mick Quinn
can be in one's life - a catalyst for the most simple
and most powerful changes. His words are not
dogma, not ritualistic, not empty promises. They are
the purest call to attention it has been my
delight to receive. My life has changed because of me,
because of Mick Quinn.
From:
Belinda Ramos,
New York, USA.
The material was direct and concise. The teacher
exhibited enthusiasm for the subject and the
participants. He provided a cohesion from the abstract dream
to the tangible road to reality.
Lots of reference sources were given which allows for
different styles and personalities.
From:
David Oakley, New Jersey, USA.
Your inspiration has triggered a series of non-stopping thoughts,
goals and subsequent actions.
From the center of my passion and appreciation, Thank
You for that first wonderful conversation...
You have unleashed and unchained my essence and now I
must bring it out into the sunlight.
Again, Thank You!
From: Wendy
Silverstein, Long
Island, New York, USA.
I
was thinking this morning about some of the doors you have enabled
me to open by myself. I was
thinking back on one conversation we had a few years ago—we
were talking about the incorrect
ways in which I was identifying with the presence of certain
thoughts that appeared in my mind.
Thereafter I just started adopting a new position of
objectivity in relation to these particular thoughts.
When I think of all of the adventures that I have had since
that conversation, I realize what a
wonderful gift you gave to my daughter and I, and you
did it just by causing me to ask myself a
question.
Thank
you for the wisdom, insight and light that you have brought
into our life.
From: Mike
DiFluvio, New
York, NY, USA.
As always...great to hear back from you as I so much
enjoy reading your letters! Little chance Mick
that I would fail to read your E-mail as I find it just about
the only true... non-political or self serving
mail I receive these days!
I am so impressed and interested in the words you create into
sentences as they awake my internal
consciousness and thought. Not only do I read your
messages, but yours are about the only ones I
read many times...to make sure I really understand your point,
as I attempt to find the value when
placed in my own life...with it's own issues be them personal
or business or whatever...it is good!
From: Tara
Fleig,
Washington State, USA.
We've been trained that any kind of psychological
analysis of ourselves takes years and is a long
grueling process, and even then most people are no closer to
inner peace than they were when
they began.
The same goes with the path of enlightenment.
Maybe we've all been wrong and it really doesn't need to be
so arduous...
See:
Evidence
of awakenings in the words of those who wrote:
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