“Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.”

“You may ask, "What do I do with my anger and hate?" Love them. At their heart, they are love designed to change or keep out what does not belong, and this can increase love.”

“Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.”

“There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.”

“An infinite soul incarnates in order to catalyze massive spiritual change in a civilization, generally during a shift from one average soul age to another. An incarnation of a transcendental soul usually precedes it in order to catalyze massive social change.”

“All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.”

“As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool.”

“With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth—it’s too big.”

“Truth is infinite and is therefore vast enough to hold an infinite number of facets. It has been said that the measure of an idea’s greatness is the degree to which its opposite is also true. For example, love is gentle; love is also strong.”

“Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.”

“Through channeling, we can make conscious contact with higher planes. We can also communicate with beings who are physical but nonhumans, such as devas (nature spirits), dolphins and whales, and extraterrestrials.”