Lawrence Crane Quotes

“All it knows is, if the person doesn't do what you want them to do, beat them up, disapprove of them, send some negative energy their way, ridicule them. This is our idea of love: Do what I want you to do and I'll love you. Don't do what I want you to do and I'll have nothing to do with you. That approach isn't working for you, is it?”

“Almost all people mistake ego approval for love. Because it is not love, it is not satisfying. Consequently, one continuously needs and demands it. And this produces only frustration.”

“Another word used to describe the opposite of love is disapproval. If you're disapproving of anyone or anything, the negative, disapproving energy is in you. By long practiced habit, you've gotten the idea that disapproving of yourself or others is Ok, that it does something for you. Look close and you'll see it runs you into the ditch.”

“Are you willing to do something different in order to have something different? Many people don't act because their mind won't let them. Most people are run by their mind.”

“Despite all evidence thrown at you by your mind, despite all you've ever done in your life or failed to do, love yourself. Love yourself and see what happens. No matter what your mind says, love yourself. Whatever the rest of the world is doing, love yourself.”

“Holding a fear about something actually creates the very thing you fear. When you hold onto the fear, you are holding in mind (so then creating) what you fear. Then why would anyone hold onto fear? Most of the time they think they are protecting themselves with the fear. But trying to protect yourself with fear is just like jumping in a swimming pool with a bag a cement expecting it to help you float.”

“Holding onto anger is very detrimental to your health, your relationships, your money-making ability, and your overall happiness. Remaining in anger about something is like 'drinking poison and waiting for the other guy to die'. You also suffer when you hold onto anger by trying to 'stuff' or suppress it.”

“If you don't trust someone, you don't love them fully.”

“If you hold onto or carry around feelings of guilt, you are punishing yourself. Feeling guilty interferes with your happiness and results in you holding good things away from yourself, subconsciously.”

“If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.”

“Is it possible to solve anything when you are in confusion about it? Of course, not. Confusion is a state of having no answers and keeps us from moving forward. In order to move forward into a state of clarity, having answers, and solutions, you must move out of the confusion.”

“It's impossible to be hurt when you love fully.”

“Life is a decision. You decide your life. You decide to be non-loving. Or, you decide that you've had enough of the misery of that kind of living, and you decide to be loving. Decide to end the life of non-love that you've led up to now. It is just a decision that enough is enough: I am going to be loving. I'm going to love myself.”

“Love is the solution. Love is the answer. When you learn to love yourself the world is yours. When you learn to love yourself you live in the highest energy. When you learn to love yourself you live in the highest feeling possible.”

“Love yourself for just one week and see how much better you feel. It costs you nothing and it gives you everything.”

“Loving yourself is the easiest and smartest thing you can do. Loving yourself is also the simplest thing you can do.”

“Many people resist pain or try to suppress or get away from it. But resisting, suppressing, or trying to escape the pain never actually reduces or removes it. Why not? The reason is simple. Pain is just a signal from your body, like a doorbell ringing, saying: please fix me. So if you never answer the door, the pain never goes away. The way out of pain is to go toward it. Answer the 'doorbell' and allow your body to resolve whatever was going on that caused the pain signal.”

“Most people are trying to suppress their negativity. When you try to suppress your negativity, you actually end up collecting it and then it stays there, interfering with your health, happiness, wealth, and relationships. And we call that stress.”

“People think it's OK to harbor negative thoughts and feelings about other people. They think the other person doesn't know about it. I have news for you. We are all sending and receiving signals without realizing it. If you have negative thoughts and feelings about someone they know it. Don't kid yourself. They know it.”

“Positive attracts positive, negative attracts negative. Love attracts love. Non-love attracts more non-love.”

“Practice the three Breakthrough Actions:

- Let go of your non-love feelings.
- Hold in mind what you want.
- Be positive and loving in spite of whatever happens.”

“Regret does not do you any good at all. It doesn't help you. It drags you down. You regret you did something or didn't do something. Notice that's a negative feeling. Some people spend their whole life living in the past, regretting. That's negative behavior that keeps you negative. All you do is build up more negative energy doing that, and you're taking yourself down.”

“Seeking love from another person is the biggest waste of your time.”

“The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.”

“The more we love the less we have to think.”

“When you are loving, people come your way. They give you what you want. They may not know why they did it. But they feel something special about you. They want to let you have it your way. They're compelled by love. They feel the power of love.”

“When you really love, you can never be hurt.”

“To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.”