James Van Praagh > Quotes

“If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. ”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.”
― James Van Praagh, Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side

“We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.”
― James Van Praagh

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“When you consider your thoughts, know that they are as real to the subconscious of the person you’re thinking about as if you picked up your cell phone and said them out loud. Take responsibility for your thoughts; they’re not just yours. They go shooting out of you to the intended target just like arrows. That’s why meditation is so relaxing—your archers can take a break!”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“We are all the same. God has not chosen one group above another. When we dare to be aware, we will raise our understanding and compassion and see everyone as part of the universal energy of God. We will be free of prejudice and hatred based on someone’s color, race, sex, or gender preference. God is not limited. Only humans limit their thinking.”
― James Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death

“When people live lives of spiritual awareness and mindfulness, everything they do and say can change the lives of others. Those random acts of kindness can alter someone’s attitude.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“All of us are navigating our own personal yellow brick roads. Some of us are still asleep in the poppy field; some of us remain content with the material pleasures of the Emerald City. Some of us still think that the Wizard is great and powerful and follow his arbitrary commands to curry favor, while others have seen the man behind the curtain and have become disillusioned or feel betrayed. For the rest of us, once we acknowledge that our hearts’ desires lie in our own backyard—inside of us—we’ll be closer to home. And there’s no place like home.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“The mystery of life doesn’t seem so mysterious if you venture inward and listen to your soul’s voice.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“Random acts of kindness such as a smile to a stranger carry more weight than attending church every Sunday out of obligation. You can literally change the energy field around you by keeping your thoughts high-minded, and only attract those who gravitate toward the higher vibration. Remember that like attracts like, so when you bring that energy into your life, only good things can happen—and what you reap may arise from something you had no conscious awareness of sowing.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“When you’re filled with Spirit, you feel a connectedness and oneness with everyone. Your soul will have a sense of joy and peace, with a focus on service to others.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“Stay positive. When you resist change, you are trying too hard to control the outcome and not paying enough attention to the process.”
― James Van Praagh

“To me, God is an energy and I am made of it. I am not separate from God, and neither is anything you see.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“Remember that ghosts can read your mind and recognize your fear, and if you don’t respect them by entering their world with knowledge and preparation, the results can have dire physical, mental, and emotional effects on you and anyone with you.”
― James Van Praagh, Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side

“order to reclaim your joy. Set Your Intention Having a clear, positive intention for your day is the easiest way to raise your vibration. Make sure that your intention is clear, but don’t feel guilty if you don’t manifest it. Just like a pole jumper who fails to clear the bar, dust yourself off and try again. Your intention can be general, like I want to be less judgmental today, or it can be specific if you’re concerned about a confrontation or decision that is in the offing. Always envision the outcome as a happy ending.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“Mistakes are the best way to understand your strengths and weaknesses, but they will bear fruit only if you acknowledge them and view them as opportunities to learn, instead of defeats.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. —Erica Jong”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“Time spent on earth is one of learning. From a spiritual point of view, all that is expected of us is to love ourselves—not in a narcissistic sense, but to value ourselves for the spiritual beings we are. We are here to do the best we can and to treat others with compassion and kindness. The”
― James Van Praagh, Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side

“The time will come for the individual soul to open up to the awareness that it is not the body, the ego, the limitations, the thoughts, the personality, and so forth.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“The situations and people in our life that cause us the most trouble are also our greatest teachers.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life

“You are connected to everything, and the creative power of the Universe is you; never feel separate from it. You have the choice of how you want to live today. You are not defined by your past or by things that may have happened to you in the past. Without those experiences, you wouldn’t be who you are today. Sometimes you can’t have what is in front of you if you’re not willing to let go of what’s behind you.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“To all those who may listen, there is no need to fear the crossing from your world to this. It is a great adventure. It is the great awakening into a greater world of loveliness and beauty and freedom of thought. Truly this is a spiritual world but not as Man has depicted it. Indeed, it is so, so different and so tremendously alive, so vital, so tremendously, as it were … so far removed from Man’s conception of things that it cannot be depicted or described. One can only feel it and know it and sense it. It is so vast and so beautiful. Do not fear that passing from your world to this. For whatever condition of life you may enter, no matter how lowly it may be, it will be a reflection of your world but according to its condition and according to your condition of passing and particularly according to your development or lack of it, so you will find a condition that will apply to you and be best suited.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions

“We have to constantly remind ourselves that we may not be able to control the world and its problems, but we do have control over our microworld and our choices, with the hope that through sound, love-based decisions, we not only make our lives better but make the world at large a better place.”
― James Van Praagh, Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions