The Secret Gratitude Book: Volume 8 (The Secret Library)

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The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don’t want than what they do want.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Byrne encourages readers to write down things they are grateful for every day and to focus on positive emotions such as joy, love, and gratitude. The book is beautifully designed, with inspirational quotes and affirmations sprinkled throughout, making it a joy to read. Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. It will always be that way. Guaranteed!”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring into your life more situations for you to complain about.”– Rhonda Byrne, The SecretNow that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway through which the power of the Universe will begin to express. When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humor, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance. Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction. The law of attraction can also be called the law of creation in other words, life is not happening to you, you are creating it.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

The Secret is the law of attraction! Everything that’s coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret The book is inspired by the 1910 book, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles which Byrne received from her daughter when she was going through a tough time in her life, in 2004.

John Assaraf, "a former street kid…who has dedicated the last twenty-five years to researching the human brain, quantum physics, and business strategies, as they relate to achieving success in business and life." In the film, John relates an account about the power of visualization whose denouement has him crumpled on the floor and weeping, the former street kid, because he found a picture of a house in a box.

Byrne highlights the importance of gratitude and visualization in achieving one's desires, along with alleged examples. Later chapters describe how to improve one's prosperity, relationships, and health, with more general thoughts about the universe. Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it thought persistent thoughts.” Damn, those Jews were pretty careless before WW2, weren't they? One can see here how this approach makes life easy in a way. One doesn't have to understand or appreciate the world and the circumstances of other's lives. One can straight away be judgemental: they brought it on themselves, whether it is cancer, war, contagious disease, or bad architecture. But of course the something like the boom in London property prices or the Wall street crash and subsequent Great Depression do indeed demonstrate the power of positive thinking. The first could be nothing other than millions of people thinking positive thoughts in concentric rings and the other was the result of millions of people thinking negative thoughts - and what a hero Herbert Hoover was in his one man attempt to try and turn round the thought patterns of a nation by telling everybody that the economy was on the turn. The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret If we are in fear, if we're feeling in our lives that we're victims and feeling powerless, then we are on a frequency of attracting those things to us...totally unconsciously, totally innocently, totally all of those words that are so important.You have the power to change anything, because you are the one who chooses your thoughts and you are the one who feels your feelings. “You create your own universe as you go along.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Well, I guess that's why this person is so insanely fat; she must believe that the food she eats has many calories and fat! Someone should have explained to her that it's 0 calories and good for her! However, the main concept: The Secret - it's where all the controversy would probably start. If you have read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, or Power of your subconscious mind by Murphy, or Peale's Power of Positive Thinking, and found them helpful, you'll feel right at home from the start. Byrne proceeds along the same set of principles - or a combination of them - but the emphasis on the 'unforeseeable force' is lot stronger. But if you have not read anything similar, or hated aforementioned books, this book is not for you in my opinion. The inherent limitation to The Secret is that, there's no way to logically explain the mechanism. Books like Think and Grow Rich, or Power of Your Subconscious Mind do attempt to shift the reader's pre-conceived opinions profoundly (which was the case with me) - either with logic or strong examples - but The Secret relies entirely on reader's acceptance of the principles without argument. This is going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of rational readers. What follows, then, is an arbitrary list of some of the "authorities" that appear on the DVD, the trained animals of the circus or the witch's evil monkeys, depending on the metaphor, waxing explanatory on the The Secret. But don't imagine the monkeys as evil; rather, picture streetwise capuchins earnestly working a cheap accordion with their tiny, hairy hands, glancing up now and then with a smile, anxious to see if you've put a coin yet in their dented tin cups: