Leonard Orr Quotations

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.

When I had a person who had symptoms and they were willing to work with it, they were willing to heal it, I would use my personal connection with infinite intelligence, which I'd been developing... Then I would look for the cause and give them some thoughts and channel some energy directly that would help them heal the cause and move them to a new space, and their symptoms would change.

My goal really was to build what I called one-year seminars, which were spiritual communities that lasted for at least a year. It was really an alternate spiritual family, because the one-year seminars produced lasting friendships that were more intimate than blood ties. The one-year seminar idea is really the most powerful thing that I created.

That was a tremendous relief, ... This tragedy was a shock to our students and staff.

When people achieve a certain level of success, if they haven't healed that core fear, then they don't want anybody to rock the boat because they are afraid of losing the little success that they have. They don't realize that if they would just open the door and expand a little bit they could have twice as much success with less struggle and effort, but people are addicted to struggle.

At a certain point I wondered what would happen if I guided a person into that breathing with or without the water.

Things like this just bring to the forefront how hard life is sometimes,

Sometimes even in the metaphysical schools people just get blinders on like fundamental orthodoxy only in metaphysical dressings, and it's as rigid as anything else. So for a spiritual community of any kind to stay open is a tremendous virtue.

Anytime you ignore that urgency barrier and relax through that urgency barrier, you come upon and turn into self-knowledge.

I realized that the experiences were so intense for people that they needed to have at least 10 experiences before they got through the drama, the physiological-emotional drama, and could rebirth themselves.

The completed energy cycle is a totally miraculous healing experience, and people healed themselves of all kinds of diseases-migraines, epilepsy, asthma, heart disease and just everything you can imagine disappeared in the tub when people were breathing with the snorkel. It was fantastic. Even diabetes in some cases. Diabetes is kind of a tough one. It takes a while.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.