PRAISE FOR
MIKE DOOLEYS
NOTES FROM THE
UNIVERSE
Your messages are uncanny; they all strike my heart, a chord of recognition and remembering of Truth, or expand into a little more of it. Thank you! Its amazing that such a widely distributed collection of words can effect an individual response in someone you havent met! I suppose Im sending you my appreciation for your service and contribution to consciousness, specifically, supporting me in my journey of remembering and discovering.
Your messages are so very uplifting. You will give much to a world that is hungry for this new light of truth.
I just wanted to thank you for these messages. They are so insightful and really make me thinkwhich is a very good thing. I always look forward to them. They definitely are playing a role in my spiritual growth. THANK YOU!
Thank you VERY much for the sentiment you sent today. By some miracle it was EXACTLY what I needed! I printed it out and posted it on my bulletin board to read hourly if need be!
Mike: Thank you again for making a difference in my life. You are a total inspiration that awakens my soul.
Well, Mike, your e-mails bring me a solace of sortsthey are always good, and almost tear inducing. I truly cherish many of them. I even print them out and put them in my journal. I do appreciate such kind words. I am the sixteen-year-old who once wrote to you. Even at my agewith such ups and downs of emotionyour wisdom rings true and is truly a pickup for someones feelings. Thank you again very much. Keep writing and observing and philosophizing. And I will, too.
You had no way of knowing, of course, but your messages of encouragement and calls to action have helped to get me through a very difficult year. Thanks.
Mike: I am truly enjoying these wonderful pearls! All of your words echo my own feelings and knowledge. You are Heavenly!
Your messages continue to be an incredible inspiration. Thanks for being. I know that you have no way of knowing anything about the people who are on your e-mail list, but I will tell you that your last message hit me so on the money that I stopped and reread it three times. Mike, you should feel so very special that you have the ability to touch people this way. If each day you can shake or wake up just one person, you accomplished a great thing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Have a glorious day!
Mike, I just want to tell you, once again, how much I appreciate you, your insight, and your Mission. I know that the messages you send out take time and much effort on your part, and I want you to know that they help put the day into perspective. I have forwarded your messages many times, to friends all over the globe, and have received the same feedback from them that I am sending to you.
Thank you, you are awesome. I am sure you know the profound effect you have on those of us lucky enough to receive your messages!
Dear Mike: I cant tell you how incredibly appropriate your messages are; they hit me at exactly the right time. Its very hard to believe that you dont write them especially for me. The synchronicity of the Universe never fails to impress me. Thank you. Blessed Be.
Thanks so much for the continued positive comments and good wishes that you bring into my lifeas well as to many, many others. I hope you realize how appreciated you are.
Copyright 2003, 2007 by Mike Dooley
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Dooley, Mike.
Notes from the universe: new perspectives from an old friend / Mike Dooley.
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INTRODUCTION
I used to think everyone knew something that I didnt. They, like me, werent aware of what it was, and they didnt seem to notice that I was without it, but to me the difference was painful. I felt awkwardly different, which led to a burning desire to question the things that most people seem to take for granted. A desire to know what life is about, which I have now largely satisfied, making the price of my sensed alienation very small in comparison.
I didnt realize it at the time, but my desire to know had put me on a path of inner knowing; or better, my thinking was beginning to attract like thinking. It seemed my questions were slowly answering themselves, opening my eyes to the insights I now realize are latent within us all. I was never sure just when my illuminations took place until sometime after the fact, as if an intuitive knowing had been imparted when I wasnt paying close attention.
By the time I was twenty, I had deduced that were not just here accidentally, nor were we set adrift by some angry god who would then judge, condemn, and sentence us before we even understood what was going on. I believed that through thinking, we are creators, the joyful gladiators of the Universe revered for daring the ultimate dare; here of our own choosing, each of us for our own extraordinarily unique reasons, foremost among which is for the sheer adventure of doing so. And if there was ever proof that I was on the right track, the fact that I now spend part of every day writing for the Universe is it.
In 1989, these were the kinds of thoughts Mom, my brother, and I put on our companys brand-new line of T-shirts, TUT (Totally Unique Thoughts), our philosophy being that everyone is special, that every life is meaningful, and that were all here to learn that dreams really do come true. We did real well, eventually selling over one million of them.
But as the year 2000 dawned, with both our sales and our enthusiasm waning, we decided to close the last of our stores and liquidate our remaining inventory. Reluctantly, I briefly hit the pavement with my account ants rsum in hand. Fortunately, no one was hiring (at least not me!), and fortunately again, I had enough money from our T-shirt days to coast for several years. Even more fortunately, I still had a thousand or so people looking forward to receiving my free Monday Morning Motivators via e-mail each week.
So I decided that as long as I didnt have to work yet, Id keep doing the one thing that filled me with the greatest sense of accomplishment and purposewrite, about the truths I most needed to embrace to change my life. And figure out how to make it pay, later.
Talk about scary. As the months rolled by, there were plenty of nights I tossed, literally in a sweat, thinking What am I doing with my life? What went wrong? How am I going to make any money at this? What if I have to sell my home? What if I cant find a job and no one will buy my home? What if? What if? What if? And day after day, week after week, month after month, my reserves dwindled, and nothing came in.
But I knew a trick. I knew that figuring out the hows wasnt really my job; they belonged to the Universe. I also knew to focus on the end result, the kind of life I wanted, and to get busy turning over every stone, knocking on every door, following every impulse, so that theoretically, at least, the Universe could take care of the details.