Top 90 James Redfield Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.”

— James Redfield

52. “No, you were drawn in because you made the same mistake you made earlier: you didn’t just open up and listen to those souls; you gave yourself over to them, as if they automatically had all the answers, without checking to see of they were connected and motivated by love.”

— James Redfield

53. “Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima.”

— James Redfield

54. “What we don’t realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else’s energy.”

— James Redfield

55. “And when it comes to relationships, we’re so demanding that we’re making them near impossible.”

— James Redfield

56. “When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.”

— James Redfield

57. “This restless searching is what’s behind the ‘me–first’ attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it’s affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs.” She.”

— James Redfield

58. “After a while, the conversations became almost cordial.”

— James Redfield

59. “With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my perceptual field, from the small insects close to my face all the way to the galaxy of stars behind the moon. I was looking at everything from the larger perspective of the entire Universe.”

— James Redfield

60. “They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.”

— James Redfield

61. “Michael Tomlinson’s music truly explores the issues of the heart.”

— James Redfield

62. “Do you see how preoccupied everyone has been? This perspective explains a lot. How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.”

— James Redfield

63. “Clearing the past was a precise process of becoming aware of our individual ways of controlling learned in childhood. And once we could transcend this habit, it said, we would find our higher selves, our evolutionary identities.”

— James Redfield

64. “And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn’t alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again.”

— James Redfield

65. “The movement of this energy, if we can systematically observe it, is a way to understand what humans are receiving when we compete and argue and harm each other. When we control another human being we receive their energy. We fill up at the other’s expense and the filling up is what motivates us. Look, I must learn how to see these energy fields.”

— James Redfield

66. “Then, we’re ready to begin the evolutionary flow.” “And how do we engage this process?” I thought for a moment. “By keeping our current life questions firmly in mind,” I said. “And then watching for direction, either in a dream or in an intuitive thought or in the way the environment illuminates and jumps out at us.” I.”

— James Redfield

67. “He paused, thinking, so Dobson asked again that we sit.”

— James Redfield

68. “After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.”

— James Redfield

69. “In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we’re trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and the level of nations.”

— James Redfield

70. “In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.”

— James Redfield

71. “Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You’ll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you’ll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You’ll get more opportunities to be successful.”

— James Redfield

72. “Perhaps you met so that you could receive some information that will extend your journey here. And doesn’t it follow that perhaps you have some information for him as well?”

— James Redfield

73. “Every human being, simply by virtue of his or her humanity, is a child of God and therefore in possession of rights that even kings must respect.”

— James Redfield

74. “Because you are giving me more energy than I would have otherwise, I can see what my truth is and more readily give it to you. When I do that, you have a sense of revelation about what I’m saying. This leads you to see my higher self even more fully and so appreciate and focus on it at an even deeper level, which gives me even more energy and greater insight into my truth and the cycle begins over again.”

— James Redfield

75. “Not much. It just says we are members of the same thought group with certain other people. Thought groups are usually evolving along the same lines of interest. They think the same and that creates the same expression and outward experience. We intuitively recognize members of our thought group and very often they provide messages for us.”

— James Redfield

76. “He took a long breath, then said, ‘There’s only one way. Each of us has to go back to our family experience, that childhood time and place, and review what happened. Once we become conscious of our control drama, then we can focus on the higher truth of our family, the silver lining so to speak, that lies beyond the energy conflict. Once we find this truth, it can energize our lives, for this truth tells us who we are, the path we are on, what we are doing.”

— James Redfield

77. “If one believes that life is just a matter of personal survival in an essentially meaningless and unfriendly world, then it makes perfect sense to focus all one’s wits on living as comfortably as possible and seeing to it that one’s children have the same opportunities. But if one grasps the first nine Insights and sees life as a spiritual evolution, with spiritual responsibilities, then our view completely changes.”

— James Redfield

78. “Julia leaned toward me again. ‘The Manuscript says we will learn that sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.”

— James Redfield

79. “We could not save the environment and democratize the planet and feed the poor before because for so long we could not release our fear of scarcity and our need to control, so that we could give to others. We couldn’t release it because we had no view of life that served as an alternative. Now we do!”

— James Redfield

80. “We either fear that human culture is falling apart, or we can hold the Vision that we are awakening. Either way, our expectation is a prayer that goes out as a force that tends to bring about the end we envision. Each of us must consciously choose between these two futures.”

— James Redfield

81. “Once you become conscious of the questions active in the moment, you always get some kind of intuitive direction of what to do, of where to go. You get a hunch about the next step. Always. The only time this will not occur is when you have the wrong question in mind. You see, the problem in life isn’t in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.”

— James Redfield

82. “Reneau said that this is a classical co-dependent relationship and that it has built-in problems that begin to arise immediately.”

— James Redfield

83. “We saw many fearful world leaders, including those in the Chinese government, being helped to join the global community and to implement economic and social reforms.”

— James Redfield

84. “When we visualize,’ he said, ’that each breath pulls energy into us and fills us like a balloon, we actually become more energized and feel much lighter and more buoyant.”

— James Redfield

85. “Humans link up energy and then fight over who is going to control it. And the loser always pays the price.”

— James Redfield

86. “Maya caught my eye. She was looking at me in a state of complete openness and honesty, and as I watched her, it seemed as though I could see her Birth Vision as a subtle expression on her face. She knew who she was and it beamed outward for everyone to observe. Her mission was clear; her background had prepared her perfectly.”

— James Redfield

87. “In any family, the child must first receive energy from the adults in his life. Usually, identifying with and integrating the energy of the same-sexed parent is accomplished easily, but receiving energy from the other parent can be more difficult because of the differences in the sexes.”

— James Redfield

88. “How people are excluded is important,’ he said. ‘When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this – instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy – we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.”

— James Redfield

89. “A sense of recognition,’ she replied. ‘Seeing someone who looks familiar, even though you know you’ve never seen the person before.”

— James Redfield

90. “Finally I said, “That humans are stuck in a kind of competition for each other’s energy. When we can get others to acquiesce to our view, they identify with us and that pulls their energy into us and we feel stronger.” He smiled. “So the problem is that everyone is trying to control and manipulate each other for energy, because we feel short of it?” “That’s right.” “But there is a solution, another source of energy?” “That’s what the last insight implied.”

— James Redfield

91. “The Manuscript says that what we should do instead in that situation is to stop what we are doing, no matter what, and find out the message we have for that person, and that the person has for us. The Manuscript predicts that once humans grasp this reality, our interaction will slow down and become more purposeful and deliberate.”

— James Redfield

92. “To regain this buoyancy, I try to breathe in the energy with which I have just connected.”

— James Redfield