A page dedicated to the wisdom of Michael Jackson…those who have discovered this unparalleled life quickly learn that Michael’s words touch on every aspect of the human condition…giving light and love to all who inhabit this planet.  As with each and every article  of CHOSENVOICES, this is an attempt at being a repository of Michael Truths. 

And, as with every journey taken alongside Michael Jackson, the gift of love is received.  Irina Eropolova, my beautiful kindred spirit and sister across the miles, has inspired this page of CHOSENVOICES.  Just as Michael Jackson adored collaboration, she and I have collaborated to create it.  We have chosen to make this an organic process adding quotes as we rediscover them.  Journeys with Michael Jackson are unending, for we revisit, nourish and define, our depth of understanding increasing with each visit.  

~If you enter the world knowing you are loved, and you leave the world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

~If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked.  You miss the freshness and magic of the moment.  Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

~What you believe you become.

~The greatest education is watching the masters at work.

~From Bliss I came, to Bliss I return.

~Words may not hurt you physically, but they can destroy you emotionally.

~When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

The foundation of human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and everyone of us is an object of love.

~It’s all meant to be play.  Keep to your course, but dance while you do it.

~When children listen to music they don’t just listen, they melt into the melody and flow into the rhythm.

~Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life.

~Live, be, move, rejoice…you are alive!

~When I begin to feel a little tired or burdened, children revive me.  I turn to them for new life, for new music.

~Others can’t overcome fear for you, you have to do it on your own.  It’s hard because fear and doubt hold on tight.

~Love is the juice and energy that motivate my music, my dancing, everything.  As long as love is in my heart, it’s everywhere…as long as I listen to the moment, I’ll always have music.

~It’s been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

~Today’s cutting edge is tomorrow’s classic.

~We must never forget that the children are our future and without them mankind would become extinct.

~The best dreams are when your eyes are wide open…Go for you dreams.

~Lies run in sprints, the truth runs in marathons…in the end, the truth always triumphs.

~There are people out there who don’t actively hold you back as much as they quietly work on your insecurities so that you hold yourself back.

~All is possible if God is on our side.

~It doesn’t have to be true to be believed.  Tell a lie often enough and people will  believe it.

~Hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

~I am bewildered at the length people will go to portray me negatively.

~If I were living for no other reason than to help and please children…that would be enough for me.

~In accepting yourself completely, trust becomes complete.  There is no longer any separation between people because there is no longer separation inside.  In the space where fear used to live, love is allowed to grow.

~Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.  This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts.

~I see God in the faces of children.

~Whenever I accept my own doubt and insecurity, I’m more open to other people.  The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

~I love to create, to make magic, to do the unexpected.

~Revisit. Nurture. Define

~Awareness. Awakening. Hope.

~Nature…her magic is infinitely lavish and in return all we have to do is appreciate it.

~In a world filled with hate, we must dare to hope.  In a world  filled with anger, we must dare to comfort.  In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream.  And, in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

~You are the reason I continue to do what I do.

~What is a genius?  Someone who inspires change.

~Be with me and let us feel the power of life together as one creature here on earth.

~Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

~To change the world  is my deepest desire.

~What we have conceptualized we have created…all those loved, all those hated.

~Let’s love one another. Let’s forget hatred and turn to those that are suffering, not just today, but everyday.

~There’s nothing that can’t be done if we raise our voice as one.

~Keep on reaching, do it for me.

~Once the music plays, it creates me.  The instruments move me, through me, they control me.

~It didn’t matter what color our skin was or which country we called home.  We are one global family.

~Join me in healing the world and making it a better place.

~To heal the world we first have to heal ourselves, and to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within every one of us.

~Look into your hearts.  What do you see?  Not you and I, but only we.

~If you say I’m wrong than you have to prove you’re right.

~Ignorance is the night of the mind.

~Prejudice is ignorance.

~My trust comes from love.

~I sit in my room at home and sometimes cry.  It’s so hard to make friends.  Sometimes I walk around the neighborhood at night just hoping to find someone to talk to…but, I just end up coming home.

~My fans truly are a part of me.  We share something that most people never experience. 

~No matter what, no star is too far to reach…and, you never give up. 

~I’m interested in making a path instead of following a trail and that’s what I want to do in life, in everything I do.

~I enjoy nature.  I know the tree feels it when the wind blows through it.  It probably goes, ‘Ohhh!  This is wonderful!’  And, that’s how I feel when I’m singing some songs.  It’s wonderful.

~Out of bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

~If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change.

~Oh, they, they’ll take care of it, The government will do it.  They who?  It starts with us or else it will never be done.

~If you don’t aim for something you’ll never know whether you could have hit the mark.

~I’m a strong person.  I’m a warrior and I know what is inside of me.  I’m a fighter, but, it’s very painful at the end of the day.

~I’m married to my music and there has to be that closeness in order  to do the kind of work I want to do.

~My greatest accomplishment, my greatest joy are my children.  This is what life is all about.  This is what love is all about.

~Dream it.  See it.  Believe it.  Make it happen.

~The more I believe, the more the dream will be mine.

~Wonderment and magic are things I’ve just never grown out of.

~My trust comes from love.

~There’s nothing that can’t be done if we raise our voice as one.

~As long  as you have love in your heart it is everywhere.

~When you want to be close to me, listen to my music…the love is stored there and will never die.

~Love and joy, peace for the world…that’s what I want.  Peace in the world…and, love.

~We all have to give and we all have to do what we can to help end the endless suffering in the world.

~I’m a person who wants to make people happy through the talent God has given me.  Just let me share, give and put a smile on people’s faces…make their hearts happy.

~I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance.  What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing.

~It’s very important to be loved and to tell people that you love them and to look in their eyes and say it.

~I have the greatest fans in the world.  I love them all, I really do.

~I love to put my soul into something and have people accept it and like it.  That’s a wonderful feeling.

~Some friends are like shadows, you only see them when the sun shines.  But, my fans sustained me even in the dark days.  I owe them everything.

~I’m going to search for my star until I find it.  It’s hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

~Feeling free, let us fly in the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die, to live in bliss and never cry, to spread the truth and never die, to share our love without a sigh, to stretch our arms without a tie.

~I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity.  Our mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Our life begins to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~Make love your weapon to overcome any evil.

~I take this gift only to give it again.

~I believe in wishes and a person’s ability to make them come true.  It’s something your conscious and subconscious can make a reality.

~When one person believes in something, it’s a dream.  When two persons share the same dream it’s a beginning of a new reality.

~I simply believe in it (the Bible) and I get down on my knees every night and thank God and ask him to lead the way.

~Let us dream of a tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

~The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.  It’s  present in the infinity of all forms and phenomenon that exists in all creation.

~You can’t do your best when you are doubting yourself.  If  you don’t believe in yourself, who will?

~I think being humble and believing in yourself and having love in your heart for the world…and really trying to help people through lyrics and the love of music and dance, because I truly do love people very much.

~I want people to hear or watch something I’ve done and feel that I’ve given it everything I’ve got.  I feel I owe an audience that courtesy.

~Children have no power to end wars directly or mend age-old differences.  All they can do is be themselves, to shine with gratitude and joy when love is turned their way.  Yet, isn’t that ultimately the greatest power.

~To honor the children of the world, I vow to keep my promise to help the sick and dying, the alone and  homeless and hungry through the construction of children’s hospitals and orphanages in every needy corner of the world.

~What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one’s life and will hopefully touch others as well.  This is art in its highest form.  Those moments of enlightenment are what I continue to live for.