This Will Change How You See Life Forever – Wayne Dyer’s Wisdom

[Music] what you want to say to become inspired in your life to have all of your thoughts break their bonds is this what I desire which is aligned with spirit is on its way Dr Wayne Dyer bestselling author and America's foremost spiritual guide and Mentor returns to public television to share his six remarkable steps for living an Inspired Life and I'd like to suggest to you that INSP ation is not something that comes and goes it's not something that you have one moment and then in the next moment it disappears and this is a whole

new look at inspiration along with powerful wisdom teachings to Unleash Your Own inspiration you'll meet four individuals whose lives have personally inspired Dr Dyer so becoming inspired is really about changing your awareness of yourself now join Wayne Dyer for an Extraordinary presentation that promises to transform your life when inspiration your ultimate calling airs next [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you so much it's wonderful to be here back on PBS with a brand new special on inspiration your ultimate Calling there'll be a lot about inspiration here tonight tonight inspiring people inspiring events how to

live an Inspired Life how to attract Spirit back into your life lots of things that are going to be very powerful for you I encourage you to stay with it and uh call everyone you know and tell them to watch we need more inspiration in this world people that have inspired me have been uh my children have been a great Inspiration to me I have eight of them six daughters yes and two sons and um back in the 1960s when I was uh studying for my uh doctoral studies in Detroit at Wayne State University I

uh yeah I uh I used to listen to music and a group of kids came over to this country from from uh a little town just outside of London called Liverpool um some of you May have uh heard of them and they used to sing a song The Beatles did it was called uh will you still want me will you still love me what When I'm 64 When I'm 64 right and I used to think at that time in my 20s that I didn't really understand that song didn't think it would have any meaning at

all I thought no one even ought to be allowed to live that long so it just didn't resonate to me But then lo and behold it happened to me turned around and 64 was here and I wasn't able to be uh with my children at the time of that birthday I was speaking in uh Durham North Carolina that night so I got a package from uh them with a wonderful card in it for me and um I thought you know maybe all of this work that uh we've done with these children with my wife and

I and trying to teach them about spirit and higher Consciousness and loving and being close To God and spirit was coming through because they sent me this beautiful card it said inside of this birthday card is a very special message from God and I opened it up and it said uh see you soon [Applause] happy [Applause] birthday so uh there it is and my children have been a great Source of inspiration to me they have given me some of the best material I could ever have I can remember one morning um I was making waffles

for them and I heard my uh daughter talking my daughters talking to each other and uh they were doing very slow and uh and I had what I thought was really important things to do and uh I encouraged her and all of them to you know speed it up a little bit you know Let's go we've got to we've all got to get in the car we've got deadlines we've got to get to school I've got to get to work I'm a I'm a prophet you know I uh I have to go think and walk

the beach I I get paid by the thought you see uh and so I raised my voice a little bit and I said something and my daughter Serena uh took a took umage at what I had said and I said come on let's go get working let's go move come on I want to get to school we got to get you to School she just stood up and she put her hands on her hips and looked at me and said I wonder what all those people would think of Mr positive if they could see him

here this morning [Applause] she turned around and uh looked at her sister summer and said uh would you buy a book from someone who yells at his 10-year-old child I write those down when they so anyway my children have always Been uh great inspiration for me and uh and great teachers and keep me very close to the ground and very humble I want to uh begin this program on inspiration with a a story about about attitude and belief because basically the idea of living an Inspired Life is one in which our attitudes become one of

uh being in harmony with our source with Spirit not too long ago I was uh I was honored by uh Yeshiva University the Einstein School of Medicine with a uh a wonderful tribute it was called the Einstein award that is given to people who uh whose work exemplifies some of the uh sort of philosophical views rather than just necessarily the scientific views of uh of Albert Einstein and I was invited there and I uh gave a lecture to the staff and did rounds and spent a day there at the uh at this uh wonderful School

School of Medicine in the psychiatric hospital in Uh in New York but I felt that when I got there that maybe it would be important for me to uh explain to them about Einstein's theory of relativity which I'm sure many of you watching um don't really completely understand that everything is really relative I mean there was a great Chinese philosopher who once said his name was Lau he said I went to sleep and I dreamt that I was a butterfly and then I awoke and now I don't know am I a man who was dreaming

that he was a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming that I'm a man it could be either way and Einstein said it's all relative it's all relative and I thought about that and I thought perhaps I could help these doctors and everyone to understand since they were working at a place named after Dr Einstein I could Explain to them about uh how to apply this this Theory and I have a theory about relativity that goes like this all things being relative in a bowl of soup this is a lot of hair what do you

think really you understand if you were in a restaurant and you ordered a bowl of Soup and you got this much hair in it you would call the waiter over and you would say excuse me what that's a lot of hair that's the way I look at it all right it's all relative and it's all how you believe and what you believe as we move into this idea of inspiration I'd like to suggest to you that you have a mind that is uh open to everything and attached to nothing it's not a program that's based

on any Religion or any particular view of spirit or God or Soul we can call it what we want we all originate from the same Source this Source acts in a certain way is constantly creating and whether you're uh a believer in one particular religious persuasion or another all of us have to agree even quantum physics teaches us that we all originate in this Divine place of an organizing intelligence and Alan Watts a great Teacher a man I admired enormously um once said that you can't get wet from the word water the word itself whether

you call it water or vazer or Aqua or Edna it doesn't make any difference what you call call it it's the substance of what it is and not what we call something that I want you to pay attention to as we talk about spirit and I'll use these terms Interchangeably Spirit Divine mind organizing intelligence God all of these terms are terms that refer to the place from which we all came and this idea of inspiration if you look at the word inspiration it breaks down to two words in spirit in spirit and when we look

at what it means to live an Inspired Life it's nothing more in my estimation it's nothing more than finding a way for you To be in harmony with the spiritual Essence from which you originated not just in your actions not just in your feelings and not just in your behaviors of attending church or being nice once in a while in every single thought that you have and I'd like to suggest to you that inspiration is not something that comes and goes it's not something that you have one moment and then in the next moment it

disappears and this is a whole New look at inspiration to me inspiration is living in spirit at all times and catching ourselves when we find ourselves disconnected from the spirit from which all of us emanated it's it's really thinking thinking like God it's uh it's being more in touch with that place of origination it doesn't come and go when you live an Inspired Life you begin to feel as if you're on purpose I guarantee You that at the end of this show you will not have to ask the question what is my purpose and how

do I find it and where is it and how come I can't get it and why does somebody else have it and I don't seem to get it it always seems to elude me these will no longer be the issues that face you about being inspired it's really about living day in and day out from this Divine perspective of watching every single thought that we have and catching ourselves when we have A thought that is inconsistent with that Divine Source from which we all came so that if you have a thought that includes you and

your family but excludes someone else and their family no matter where they are in the universe no matter where they are no matter what they look like no matter what side of the river they were born on no matter what their cultural background might be if you have a thought that includes some And excludes others at any time you're not in spirit you have left spirit and moved into something else taking on a view of yourself as uh as someone who was separated from your source so that you watch yourself and you catch yourself and

a big part of this program will be about watching those thoughts many of you know that I had a very powerful an important teacher in my Life when I was a young doctoral student he was perhaps the most significant teacher in the professions of my life he wrote a very important book back in the 1950s called Modern Man In Search of a soul his name was Carl Jung and car Yung had others in his life who were students of his and one of those was Abraham maslo and Dr maso's work on self-actualization and higher Consciousness

and teaching people that If you want to help another human being you always put your attention on what it is that they can do to improve rather than on what is wrong so you don't talk about what is missing what is wrong what ought to be what used to be unless you want more of that to continue flowing into your life you put your intention and your attention on what what it is that you want to shift and change and he had an observation maso's observation was this he said what is necessary what Is necessary

to change a person is to change his awareness of himself so becoming inspired is really about changing your awareness of yourself and what does this mean it means Shifting the belief systems that you might have the thoughts that you've had over and over and over again that say I am limited I don't have the talent uh I don't have the Background uh I don't have the luck that I need in order to be able to attract what I want into my life things have never worked out for me before um you don't you change your

awareness of yourself and your own body and what you believe about it like how could you have a body that comes from a Divine source that creates from well-being and have it be anything other than beautiful have it be anything other than Divine have it be anything other than perfect a perfect Creation of God of source of spirit is what it is that you carry around with you and if you have any other thoughts about it then you have to really work at shifting them because it's an insult to that from which you came when

you trust in yourself you're you're trusting in the very wisdom that created you and inspiration is about having that it indeed it is about recognizing yourself as a genius recognizing yourself as a person of unlimited talent and the Capacity to be able to do anything and you'll be hearing a little bit later in this program stories about people who have taken exactly that attitude and said there is absolutely nothing that I can't create if I can conceive of it in my mind and know that if I don't have the talent that whatever Talent is necessary

I can manifest it and have it show up and Attract it into my life whatever financing is necessary I have the ability to be able to connect myself to that it's a knowing it's a powerful knowing I've been introduced a lot of times as the father of motivation I don't know first of all I'm already the father of enough all right Eight is Enough all right so I don't need another one named motivation to be the father of and I'm also pretty aware that it's difficult to motivate anyone I don't know that you Really can

motivate another human being in the process of of being a parent and then being a teacher a school teacher at one time a college professor a lecturer all over around the world teaching on larger stages and smaller stages and working with uh my own family and so on I really kind of think that uh we come into this world and uh and we have an agenda that we need to fulfill and that um the best intentions of somebody else wanting them for you isn't Enough to motivate them it has to come from within and I

think you can provide some guidance and you can provide some motivation perhaps in the way of encouragement and being a model of what it is that you'd like people to do but uh two people can be raised in the very same family and have the identical uh experiences and one of them can go uh one way and one goes completely another way I know it's true in my own family as Well so that if motivation is getting a hold of an idea and taking this idea to its logical conclusion and not letting anything interfere with

that that's motivation and we say a motivated person doesn't allow obstacles to show up in their life and doesn't allow for uh anyone to interfere with them and is really highly uh directed towards a particular goal so motivation is getting a hold of an idea and carrying it out and we want to think Of ourselves as motivated and I think I think it comes from within if that's what motivation is inspiration is the exact opposite inspiration is when an idea gets a hold of you and takes you where you were originally intended to go in

the first place it's very different than motivation the great playright Arthur Miller most of you had to read one of his plays at one time or another in high school or in college Death of a Salesman being of course one of the most famous uh the crew able and so on Arthur Miller was uh passed away recently but he was 88 years old and he had another play on Broadway at the age of 88 and he was asked the question in an interview in the New York Times um are you working on another play and

his answer really intrigued me he said um I don't know but I probably am Now I think that there that's really a very astute observation when people ask me if I'm working on another book I often say the same thing I probably am that there's something bigger there's something that is greater in our lives and when we connect to it we allow it to take us where we were intended to go when we signed up for this whole visit in the first place called our Incarnation into being a human form For this little parentheses in

eternity just a little parenthesis in eternity I have one of my very favorite observations of this subject about inspiration from uh a story written about uh a man named uh Wolf Gang Amadeus what moai of course it's from an essay where Madness is psyche's only nurse it's called it seems a would be composer came to Mozart seeking his advice how do I write Symphonies he Asked Mozart replied well you're young yet I think you should begin by composing minettes the young man was greatly annoyed and exclaimed but you were writing Symphonies when you were only

9 years old yes Mozart responded but I didn't ask anyone how to do it now the writer of this essay goes on to say that the most agonizing thing about this little Mozart story is that Mozart Was not speaking from inflation but from simple truthful modesty the reason Mozart didn't have to ask anyone how to write Symphonies is that Symphonies presented themselves to him invented enlarged produced all at once in what he described as Lively dreams dreams that were so forceful that Mozart had to stop doing what he was doing otherwise and write out what

he heard almost as if something Beyond Mozart's Consciousness desired these Symphonies To be written now that is very very powerful teaching that these great Symphonies that Mozart wrote presented themselves to him and he couldn't stop it do you know you don't have to be a Mozart to be in spirit you can you can find your calling by just being willing to listen by just being willing to be someone who knows that it may not be in The writing of a of a symphony that you're calling that you're called to it could be anything it could

be the adoption of a child it could be the creation of uh something that you've known you wanted to write for your whole life it could be opening up a business it could be raising horses out in Montana uh it could be anything that you are called to do so that the awareness that I'm asking you to look at is that there is there is something that is Calling you and when an idea gets a hold of you you get into this place of surrender where you just you let go in the recovery movement we've

always called this you you let go and what and you let God you allow this great spirit to be something that infuses you in such a way that it becomes this thing bigger than your life that propels you into directions that you're willing to listen to but you got to have you got to change your awareness of yourself as maslo said And one of the ways that you change your aware awareness of yourself is to understand a very simple a very simple premise think of an apple pie here's an apple pie and this apple pie

you take this apple pie and you take a slice of this apple pie and you put it over here and then you walk over to the slice and you say to the apple pie the slice of apple pie what are you like what are you like and the Little slice of apple pie says I must be like What I came from you wouldn't expect it to be pineapple you wouldn't expect it to be Cherry you would expect it to be like what it came from right so why is it that we understand this and yet

we don't understand that we too must be like what we came from we must be we are we are pieces of God we came from a Divine source we have to we have to trust in our Divinity we have to understand that we Are not this package of Bones and skin encapsulating you know these internal organs that that's not who we are that's what we call the false self it's an illusion that who we really are is what we came from and what we came from is eternal it's infinite It's Kind it's unlimited it is

excludes no one so that if we understand that we are really here as Spiritual Beings just having a human experience not the other way around We're not human beings having a spiritual experience it's the other way around we our Essence is our greatness what we came from we must be like what we came from I've just taken up this new practice it's called yoga I'm 65 years old and I've decided that there are certain things that I was told that I couldn't do at earlier stages of my life that I've decided I'm taking on I

don't care what my age is or what anybody else Is told what Mrs McConnell told me in the sixth grade at Marquette Elementary School in Detroit that um you don't have to come to art class um it's really not for you you you can go d basketballs maybe but uh you don't want to come to Art this is cu she saw some of my uh stick drawings that uh I was pretty proud of and then there was Mr tubs at Denby High School in Detroit who when I turned in my first drawing in uh drafting

class I Didn't even know what drafting was I just signed they threw it they threw me in there because the the school was so overcrowded it was my elective and I turned in my first drawing and he asked me the question do you have a little sister like in the third grade because she perhaps is the one that did this way that was my uh whole view of my artistic ability I'm out there painting now I'm doing painting and I'm also doing yoga All right and I've learned some things about myself in in the process

of doing this like the last time I touched my uh forehead to my um ankles I think I was 4 months old and uh I'm getting closer now I'm not there all right but I'm getting a little bit closer each time I do one of these poses I find myself a little bit and that I had a set a sort of a semi belief that uh I couldn't touch my toes While sitting up straight with my back straight up and sitting down and touch my toes without my knees bending and I kept each day going

in there and not being able to do that the knees were up and the instructor said you can do this and I said well it doesn't seem like my body agrees with with that but uh it would be uh and so he came over and he said now I'm going to show you that you really can do this now keep your back straight instead and he took his foot And he went like this down on my knees and my knees went down and I was sitting up and the first time I had ever been able

to do it was like a change in Attitude a shift a belief system that I no longer was hanging on to and that's what we have to do there's no it doesn't matter what your age is it doesn't matter what your beliefs have been it doesn't matter what other people have tried to convince you of in the past when you move into spirit and have a Knowing that I have the capacity to be able to do this you leave behind the false self and the false self is really nothing more than this ego look you

came from a Divine place a Divine place that is unlimited that says you can be anything you put your attention on and then you bought into a whole series of beliefs that were handed to you by very well-meaning people attempting to convince you that you had limitations that you couldn't do this that this Wasn't possible and I'd like to suggest to you that you took on something called an ego e g o an ego you came in from Divinity you came in from a place of unlimited you show up and you edged God out e

g o and when you edge God that out it doesn't mean that you're sacriligious it doesn't mean that you're not a a moral person it means that you take on a belief system that says who I am is no longer this infinite Divine being who Can step outside and observe this body and believe that he can make it do whatever I put my attention on and use it to have the same powers that is spoken about in in the New Testament even the least among you can do all that I have done and even greater

things it's in within each and every one of us except that we bought into an idea that who we are is what we have who we are is what we do who we are is what other people think I am who I am is separate From everybody else who I am is separate from what I would like to attract into my life and who I am is separate from my source and we believe in this separation and we believe in this identity that who I am is what I have so we start accumulating we accumulate

and accumulate and accumulate the problem is is that when you stop accumulating and if who you are is what you accumulate then you have no value as soon as your things start to disappear as soon as They wear out as soon as somebody else takes them as soon as the government taxes them as soon as any number of things who I am is what I do if you no longer can do then you aren't you no longer exist who I am is my reputation and we raise our children often to believe that what's most important

is what other people think of you fit in do what do what you've been told to do do what the crowd does follow the herd and you know what happens what you step in When you follow the herd so we take on all of these sort of false ideas and we have a tendency to believe them and and inspiration is moving back into spirit and it's moving back into spirit in such a way that you no longer accept yourself as anything other than divine [Music] a Persian poet from back in the ancient times in the

13th century his name was jela luden Roomi and roomi has this observation that's been very important and very powerful to me he said the morning Breeze has secrets to tell you do not go back to sleep let me say it again the morning Breeze has Secret to tell you do not go back to sleep I'd like to take a poll just by a show of hands I'd like to ask how many people in this room and there's about 3,000 of us here tonight I'd like To ask you how many of you awaken at one time

or another between the hours of 3 and 4 a.m. let me just see by a show of hands and if you look around you see that this is a universal experience now now what do you think that is if everybody almost everybody awakens at some time between three and four now for some of us we just interpret that as all right this is my age I'll just run into the bathroom and I'll be right Back and you may make that visit several times a night I don't know but there's more to that and I'd like

you to now of all of those people who raised their hand at uh this idea that you awaken sometime between 3: and 4:00 a.m. how many of you how many of you awaken at exactly the same time exactly the same time with a little digital clock next to you what is your time 38 3:18 what is your time 220 220 what is yours 450 450 so like there's and and this happens repeatedly over and over again my time is 3:13 I awaken at 3:13 night after night after night I look over I've got this little

clock there not it's not an alarm clock it's just little digital clock I just look over and it's 3:13 again and again and again so what I had trained myself to do in in the writing of this book in in the inspiration book um is to uh put my feet on the floor and say to myself All right you are going to awaken because here's what roomie said the morning Breeze has secrets to tell you do not go back to sleep do you realize that between 3 and 4:00 in the morning in the middle of

the night this is the time when you're closest to your Source this is the time when it's the quietest it is the time when it's the most peaceful when there are the least distractions and of course in Miracles it says the memory of God comes to The Quiet Mind it cannot come where there is conflict a mind at war with itself remembers not Eternal gentleness Eternal gentleness that's what you came from it beckons you back to be awake it's the most creative time in your life try it take that moment that you are constant you

are being called by your source and awakened and force yourself to shake the cobwebs out and if you can't then put your feet on The floor and say look if I have to go back to sleep I'm going to sleep with my feet on the floor and after a while that gets very uncom comtable and you you'll get yourself up now when I do that and I get up and I live on Maui thank you thank you thank you thank all of you for uh my beautiful home that I have in m and when I

get up that that's that is the most glorious time to be out there and I go out on Sanai and I I I get this sort of this sense of this powerful Feeling of inspiration it just it's overwhelming to me and and I walk by my writing table and it pulls me it's pulling me towards it it's almost beckoning me and saying please please come to me I I want you to and I sit there sometimes and I I literally wonder where is this coming from the words are just they just flow and I sit

I write by hand uh and as I as I'm writing and allowing this to flow Through my heart and to the pages I just think to myself I wonder I wonder what's going to come next I wonder when it's going to come next it's almost as if God is saying this is why you're here and I can't get you any other time because it's just so busy and there's horns bunk and there's all there's so many distractions but here's a time when you can just be with me just be with your just be in spirit

just be in inspired inspir be in this space with me me and I Will then allow what creative juices that you have forgotten about because you took on because you edged me out for so much a part of your life and here it is and you'll find yourself getting the right ideas examining examining things that you never thought of before writing some of you I know you do it in your sleep many times you write a poem and it'll be so phenomenal and then you'll say well I'll remember that tomorrow and then you get Up

and you can't get any of but the morning Breeze has secrets to tell you do not go back to sleep use those hours and forget about the idea that let's see now I went to bed at 11: and if I get up at 3: that means 4 hours so I'm going to be 4 hours deficient all day long I'm not going to be forget that you've got an eternity to sleep an eternity to sleep and when you learn to meditate and get quiet and get Peaceful you can always you can always in 20 minutes a

time of meditation anytime during the day get the equivalent of a full night sleep don't go back to sleep I'd like to speak in this program about what I call the rewards for inspiration things that will be your your payoffs your prizes if you decide to move into Spirit into this world of spirit that I'm speaking about Out here on PBS back in the uh 2300 or so years ago we're not quite sure exactly when there was a a great teacher in India his name was panel and in all the research that I've done on

pangali there's not sure if it was one person or a series of people or whatever it is but it's great teachings and I've immersed myself in the in the discourses of uh of pangali and the sutras and practiced it and one of the Things that patanjali who was teaching people about being miracle workers at that time teaching them about things that uh no one had ever heard about before about the power of of the repetition of the sound of the name of God as a way of manifesting something into your life teaching people about being

invisible stuff that's a little bit strange but that's you know it's like being 65 has its advantages you know cuz I can talk about things that Are weird I usually point it out so you don't think I don't know that this might sound a little strange but I would like to suggest to you that he offered something about inspiration that I want to offer to you and there are six of these things and I want to cover each one of them in this program he said when you are inspired by some great purpose some extraordinary

project all of your thoughts break their Bonds your mind transcends limitations three your Consciousness expands in every direction and four you find yourself in a new and a great and a Wonderful World dormant forces faculties and talents come alive and six you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be those are the rewards it's not like You're going to win the lottery it's not and you may it's it's not that uh somebody's going to come riding into your life on a white horse or whatever it's these are

the rewards these are the things that are going to be so powerful for you the first of these is what when you are inspired by some great purpose some extraordinary project one all of your thoughts break their Bonds all of your thoughts break their bonds what do we mean by your bonds your bonds are the thoughts that you have that keep you disconnected from your Source they are thoughts that are out of harmony with spirit with God Consciousness with God realization because this is basically about being like God being like Source being like spirit being

like Divine mind in everything in Every thought in every action more and more connecting yourself back catching yourself so the bonds are the ways that we think I'd like you to imagine a a ladder and this ladder has um 10 rungs on it from the floor all the way up to the top of the ladder and at the top of the ladder is the highest rung and at the top of the ladder is are the words this is my desire and it's aligned with Spirit again this is my desire and it's aligned with spirit so

what is your desire My Desire is to manifest abundance into my life perfectly aligned we came from an abundant Source my desire is to uh feel a sense of well-being in my body at all times perfectly aligned my desire is to have Divine spiritual relationships in my life my desire is to get the job that I am working towards getting my desire is to live in a place where I feel most Peaceful and most loving my desire is and these whatever it is it doesn't make any difference it's the 10th rung it's the highest rung

it is your spirit aligned aligned with your desire all right so here it is it's right up here now you have to ask yourself the question what is it that I offer up to this 10th rung desire all right a tenth rung has to have in order for it to manifest and show up in your life it has to have thoughts feelings and behaviors That match up to that and if they don't match up you get out of Harmony see thoughts are energy like everything in the universe it's energy Einstein said that nothing happens until

something moves it's all about movement it's all about energy and every thought that we have has an energy component to it we can measure our thoughts and how they impact us whether they strengthen us or weaken us at any time in our lives all right So there's a wonderful book written about this and it's called ask and it is given and it's the teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks a book that I um read frequently and uh great teachings I think among the greater teachings on the planet today in fact I wrote the

forward to it it's uh something that I very strongly Embrace and they talk in there about how to manifest your desires and the mistake that most of us make is that we Attract what we don't want because our thoughts are on what we don't want or we continue to attract what what's missing in our life we're not at number 10 we're at about number three and what are some of these on these lower rungs it probably won't happen it's very difficult these kinds of things have never happened for me before I don't have this kind

of luck we've got the wrong people in the White House the Economy is bad um I I don't have the ability to make it happen I don't really believe it's possible I was on the plane with a with someone uh flying across the country lovely lady and she was a uh a photographer and I said we got talking about photography and all I said do you do you like uh do you like photography she said yeah I take I do weddings and all of that and I said well how are you doing at it she

said uh well I'm never Going to get rich at it and I said um would you like to get rich she said well of course who wouldn't want to be rich we all want to have abundance in our life of course that I said so let me see if I understand this you want to attract being rich into your life and your thought about it is that it'll never happen so what do you think you're going to attract you're going to attract it'll never happen and that very simple little Example it's an innocuous example she

was a very bright and intelligent lady it wasn't about that it's about what kind of Energies we have within ourselves that we offer to what our desires that are aligned with Spirit uh in order for them to manifest and every thought on a if you have a second wrong thought that it probably won't happen it's not likely it's never happened before it's just not the way it works for me it's always been missing as long As you think like that and you're in a universe that operates on this Law of Attraction you will continue to

attract it a man named Albert Einstein who I've spoken about before theory of relativity in a bowl of soup this is a lot of here remember one of his most important observations was this he said every single person in the universe has to make the most important decision of their life which is do I Live in a friendly universe or do I live in a hostile universe that's it now if you believe that you live in a friendly Universe then you will begin looking for a universe that cooperates with you in order to manifest what

it is that you want to bring into your life you'll be looking for evidence that what it is that you are seeking is coming toward you if you believe you live live in an unfriendly hostile universe you will Take a different position you will believe that these kinds of things are not going to be attracted to me and you'll start with this whole notion that uh you'll become one of those people who are always looking for occasions to be offended and there's no shortage of occasions to be offended and there's no shortage of these people

I mean all you got to do is look at somebody who's tall somebody who's short somebody who speaks with an accent somebody who wears their Hair in a certain way somebody who has jewelry that you don't whatever it might be if you're looking for occasions to be offended you'll be finding all over the place if you're a person who believes that you don't live in that kind of a universe you'll start this and this is the key what you want to say to become inspired in your life to have all of your thoughts break their

bonds is this what I Desire which is aligned with spirit is on its way it's on its way if you believe that it's on its way then you will start looking for occasions for it to show up rather than occasions for it not to show up and then you will start acting on every tiny little clue that shows up in your life even obstacles become just something like oh this is just another test you know I can I can pass this test it's not it's not going to be difficult I'll I'll Get past it and

you can not bog yourself down in all the reasons why something won't work instead you make the shift it's on its way I desire it there's nothing for me to fuss about there's nothing for me to worry about I will not be in a state of anything other than anticipating that what I intend to create is on its way one of the people in my life that uh demonstrates this quality over and over again is my uh my Beautiful daughter Sky one of my beautiful daughters and I asked her to write the theme for this

program I called her one morning I think it was about 313 I was on Maui and she was in Florida and I said honey you inspire me is the [Music] title I would like to dedicate this song to my parents um I wouldn't be here tonight with them mom and dad you Inspire me I meant that literally too do you ever stop and think about your life and what is it all means our lives are so full of Miracles I hope every person sees you have something inside that brings joy to your soul and makes

your heart sing We all share the same big blue sky and the power to do anything you inspire me to be everything that I desire and everything I do is to be in Touch with you in every day of my life I dream a little higher and it all come back to you and how you made me so [Music] inspired we all have a choice to feel love deep within us look straight up to hear our own voice and the chance to make our path in life a little clearer oh Oh you inspire me to

be everything that I desire and everything I do is to be with you in every day of my life I dream a little higher and it all comes back to you and that's how you make me so [Music] inspired do you ever stop and think about your life [Music] She's uh been with me on every PBS special I've done since the 9s when she was just a young teenager in high school I was walking through an airport in Cleveland one day and I was with uh sky and her sister and uh her sister Serena and

u a woman came up to me and she recognized me and she recognized sky and she looked at Sky and Serena and then she looked at me then she looked back at them and said You know your mother must be very [Applause] beautiful and the truth is she is in every way and there she is Nikos ctin zakus who wrote Zorba the Greek and who wrote The Last Temptation Of Christ and who wrote I think the definitive novel biography of St Francis of Ace said that um when you passionately believe in that which doesn't exist

you create It and that which we call non-existent has not been sufficiently desired by passionately believing in what doesn't exist you created because you know that it's on its way and there's nothing and no one that can dissuade [Music] you I'd like to uh go into the second of these uh rewards that you'll get your mind transcends Limitations now that's a little bit different than uh all of your thoughts breaking their bonds your bonds are thoughts your mind transcending limitations means that you enter into the field of all possibilities and in the field of all

possibilities that leaves nothing out and in leaving nothing out it means that you you begin to see yourself when you move into Spirit as Unlimited in the exact same Way that you were before you showed up unlimited and you want to know what this Spirit looks like you want a picture of this Spirit take a look take a look know who that is that's my grandson that's Tyson and Tyson is a picture of bliss it you can't get any happier than that now I don't I know I shouldn't tell this on sky but I said

she said Dad the reason he's so happy is he's holding on To his little paper what kind can you put well anyway if you ever wonder what Spirit looks like take a look at that and know that that's you that's what you came from that's just a few month old little baby that is that came from that Blissful perfect beautiful place your Mind transcends limitations what does it mean in a little village south of Ottawa in Canada there was a young boy who went to school one day and his teacher began talking about children in

Africa who didn't have drinking water now he was six years old and they said in the classroom that if You raised $70 that's all it would take is $70 and we could create a well in a village in Africa for $70 so that they didn't have to drink dirty water and something happened to the spirit of this young man 6 years old first grade in school and he decided he went home to his mom Susan and his dad and said I want to build a well in Africa and they just thought well he said 6

years old it's cute little boy right you're going to build a well well he said no I really Mean it and he it stuck with him it was so powerful it was a powerful because there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come when an idea's time has come and it resonates with within you and you stay connected to it it can't be stopped and the little boy went he said can I do extra chores and raise money and he did he did vac vacuuming he uh worked around the house he raked the

leaves he did whatever it is that he could and he got a little Extra money here and a little extra money there and finally after some time he was able to put together $70 and he went to the school and they went down to the place that had given this information and they found out that it took a lot more than $70 it was misinformation that it really cost $2,000 and he said then I'll do more chores because he knew that this is a world that is friendly not a world in which you give up

when you have a simple Little obstacle like that and he began to do more making lemonade whatever it was that he had to do and he worked and he worked and he got his friends to work and he got the neighborhood to work and he got his parents involved in it and he raised $2,000 there name is Ryan Ryan hlack well that's just the beginning of the story because as it turned out he sent the money to this place in Uganda this little village and they Built a well and they invited Ryan and his mother

to come to Africa and speak to the children of of this Village as a young boy he was now I think seven or eight or nine I'm not sure the exact details and he went over there and he began to give talks and the people welcomed him there and they were so grateful for this boy who had such a vision that he would Bring drinking water to people who had dirty water that they had to drink and he was so touched by it that they named the well after him and they named a day after

him Ryan's day and they created a documentary about this little boy it's called Ryan's well well today that little boy has raised over $1 million for water to be brought to the Villages of countries in Africa where they didn't have it before a million Dollar he lectures all over the country the United States and Canada he's in great man and when he got there he had a little boy that was so connected to him that they were pen pals his name was Jimmy and it turns out Jimmy was an orphan and Jimmy got himself into

some difficulty after Ryan left went back to Canada and Jimmy was captured by rebels and was going to be either killed Or trained to be a killer and he he had a friend who contacted The Hurl jaacks back in Ottawa and Jimmy was brought back through all kinds of wonderful channels that were worked together and he became his brother and he adopted they adopted this wonderful boy as the as their son and that young man when I saw the movie Ryan's well on the spiritual Cinema I said I want him in my audience because he

inspires me and I sent it home cuz I was working on The book and I told Marcy I said I want every one of my children to watch that and know there's nothing that can stop someone who believes that they can create something if that idea is within them and there he is right there my friend Ryan hjac and his mom Susan and Jimmy stand up Let the world see you Susan Jimmy yeah Ryan has appeared on Oprah's twice and the first time when she called and asked if he could come it was on a

Thursday when he had something that he had to do in school and he said no and his mother said you're saying no to going on Oprah I can't do it at this time and they changed the date so he could be on when she talked about her most inspiring young people you inspire me you inspire me you you inspire me thank you on the 6th of April 1994 the president of Rwanda was in an airplane he was a Hutu and his plane went down on the 7th of April a genocide began in the country of

Rwanda a country about the size of uh the state of Maryland with approximately 10 million people 9 million of them hutus 1 million tootsies a killing spree began that Um all of the uh young men of the country over the age of 14 and all of the malale and all of the hus were issued machetes the country shut down an entire country shut down all the schools closed all the banks closed all the grocery stores closed all Commerce ceased and The Business of killing was underway people were being killed by the thousands in the Streets

and in The Villages of this country throughout the country and those of you who saw Hotel Rwanda have just seen a little tiny sliver of it in the end by July after 91 Days 1 million people 1 million people tootsies were slaughtered in this racial cleansing activity that took place and in the midst of this horror a young woman named Immaculate IL beiza was a student in a college about 200 miles from her Village her father talked with her on the phone and persuaded her to come home she didn't really want to go because it

was Easter vacation and it's a long ride and it's uh it it was through buses and so on it takes a long time through Country Roads the father said you must come home it's Easter you must come home and see your mother and your father and she said I Don't know I'm not sure but she did she did what her father asked her to do and she went home and that was on the sixth or so of April and when she got there she's a tootsie woman they had to go into hiding because the killing

began almost immediately especially in this area of Rwanda where she lived and she went into hiding in a pastor's home in a bathroom that is approximately 3T by 4T with seven other women for 91 days and she came out she's 5'9 she came out and she weighed 65b and she survived through something that is so miraculous she has written her story a book called left to tell how I discovered God in the midst of the Rwandan Genocide it was such an astonishing experience that she would survive through the force of Her total belief and connection

to God it was almost as if she had to become that from which she originated she had to learn not only what God was like in her thoughts and when you read her book you'll be just overwhelmed it's a page turning book but she had to almost learn how to be in a state of forgiveness to people who were hunting her she lived in a house that was a two-bedroom Bungalow by by standards in America and it was Searched by between three and 400 hus with machetes five inches away from where she and seven other

women were hiding just looking for scraps of food in order to survive being brought to her by the pastor and in the home that she lived the pastor didn't even tell his own children because if he would they would have been killed because no tootsies were spared none I'm going to read the introduction and I met this Woman she came to a talk I gave and and I was so deeply inspired by her Transcendent connection to Source energy that she was able to transcend the laws of the material world she was literally able to face

down after weighing 65 lbs in 91 days wearing the same clothes without having a bath or washing stare down someone with God Consciousness and have them drop a machete and it was unheard of I believe that she's a saint who walks Among Us I heard the killers call my name they were on the other side of the wall less than an inch of plaster and wood separated us their voices were cold hard and determined she's here we know she's here somewhere find her find him acul they were saying there were many voices and many killers

I could see them in my mind my former friends and neighbors who had always greeted me with love and kind Kindness now move through the house Calling My Name while carrying Spears and machetes I've killed 399 cockroaches said one of the killers Immaculate will make 400 it's a good number to kill I cowed in the corner of our tiny secret bathroom without moving a muscle like the seven other women hiding for their lives with me I held my breath so The Killers wouldn't hear me breathing their voices clawed my flesh I Felt like I was

lying on a bed of burning coals like I'd been set on fire a sweeping wind of pain engulfed my body a thousand invisible needles were ripping into me I never dreamed fear could cause such agonizing physical pain I tried to swallow but my throat closed up I had no saliva my mouth was drier than sand I closed my eyes and tried to make myself disappear but their voices just grew louder I knew they would have no mercy my mind echoed with only one Thought if they catch me they will kill me if they catch me

they will kill me they were just outside the door at any second they would find me I wondered what it was going to feel like when the machete slashed through my skin and cut deep into my bones I thought of my brothers and my dear parents wondering if they were dead or alive and if we would soon be together in heaven I put my hands together clasped my father's rosary and began to pray please God Please please help me do not let me die like this not like this not not not like this don't let

these killers find me you tell us in the Bible that if we ask we will receive well God I'm asking please make these killers go away please don't let me die in this bathroom please God please The Killers moved from the house and we all began to breathe again they were gone but they would be back many times over the next 3 months I believe God had Spared my life but I would learn over the next 91 days as I hid trembling in fear with seven women in a 3-foot by 4ot bathroom that being spared

is much different than being saved but I did learn it and it was a lesson that has forever changed me a lesson that in the midst of mass murder taught me how to love those who hated and hunted me and how to forgive those who slaughtered my family my name is immaculate Iliza and this is the story of how I Discovered God during one of History's bloodiest genocide ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Immaculate Iliza to the stage thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for your kind welcome I'm very proud and very

happy to be here on this PBS program taping and of course I'm very happy to be with Dr W again thank you I know my story is a sad story but it had been a story that gave Me an experience of great grow spiritual growth and a deep understanding of what really matters in life it is a story of everyone who live through any kind of Injustice I believe that also it have given me a chance to love better and to be able to put myself in other people's skin especially when they are hot I

always tell when that if maybe he was in my country Before the genocide teaching what it teaches today maybe the genocide would not have taken place and I hope everyone knows and America knows what a gift they have to have him sitting down in deep Silence of that bathroom for 3 months and being hunted to be killed every day through the worst time of my life I didn't know that I was about to discover the greatest Source of joy in my own heart which was God inside he is bigger than any pain there are a

few things I would like to share with you I know that we can learn to forgive do not let your heart be disturbed because of any pain I see sometimes people take a chance to H each other for example figh over a job promotion but one thing I have learned Is that when you hurt another person you hurt yourself in one way or another the most important thing I learned in that bathroom is that you can't hate people if they are struggling with the truth as the Bible said they do not know what what they

do after I got out of the bathroom I learned that my mom my dad my two brothers my schoolmates my relatives my neighbors everyone was Dead every material belongings I cherished it was destroyed I learned that to every pain in there is a great purpose I have learned a lot during those three months and I knew that those lessons can help me to face the pain that I was going to go through and I chose only to look at that and as an Frank Said in her diary I still believe deep down in my heart

that people are good at heart and do not let yourself give up mankind I know peace is possible thank you [Music] the third of these rewards for reaching and Inspired Life is that your Consciousness expands in every direction What does this mean your Consciousness expands in every direction it means there's no up and there's no down it means there's no right and there's no wrong it means that there's no North and there's no South it means that there's no beginning and no end you begin to move into a Consciousness place within yourself that you'll find

yourself when you move into Spirit you're going to find yourself doing things that you don't understand why you're doing them In 1994 when Immaculate was imprisoned in this tiny little bathroom with seven other people with no facilities she did something that I found so astounding when I first met her when she came to a lecture I had given in New York and I was so taken by her she didn't come to to me and say will you help me I sought her out and said how may I be of service to telling your story in

a profound way and what she did When she entered that bathroom is she asked the pastor whose home she was in do you have an English and a French dictionary and she learned English while she was being hunted to be killed for what reason why would someone who was in that kind of a state practice practice practice day in and day out up to 8 10 hour and she couldn't speak they didn't speak for 91 days no sound whatsoever so 5 years later she is a Survivor she Represents less than a half of 1% of

the tootsie women of Rwanda who survived all the rest all the rest were killed she went into a place within herself and taught herself a language that she was going to need 5 years from now that's what I mean by your Consciousness expands in every direction and then 5 years later in 1999 or 2000 she had a a when she was here in America and on an asylum visa married living out on Long Island has two children um is Assimilated into our culture is a great spokesperson for for transcending hatred on the planet she woke

every day 3:00 in the morning before she went to work at the UN and wrote and wrote and wrote every little detail of what happened in those 91 days 150,000 words she wrote and wrote and wrote and gave that to me 5 years after that and I said Immaculate it's wonderful but your native language is kinanda your second language is French Your third language you know so she we got help in helping her to convert it into language that would be but how did she know in 1994 that she was going to be in America

and coming up on on a stage like this and talking to our country in a language that is her third language how did she know that your Consciousness expands in every direction when you have an inkling when you have like Ryan when you have a feeling within you that this is something that you have To do that you can't be stopped from doing it the whole world changes and you start and you listen to it and you find yourself if you if if someone hands you a book and then someone else talks about that book

and then someone else mentions it and then you see the author on television and all of a sudden you start saying wait a minute I've got to listen to this I am being directed I'm being called I trust in this I totally Completely trust your Consciousness expands in every direction when you enter the world of spirit and you get yourself pulled in these directions and you allow ow yourself to be pulled in that way that's what I mean by your Consciousness expands in every direction nothing is impossible and whatever you find yourself doing that's what

you that's what you allow yourself to do and what you allow yourself to be there's a great quote by again by roomy he's just One of the greatest every tree and plant every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing those whichever average eyes would see as fixed and still that's what happens when your Consciousness expands in every direction you see you you understand the da the da is like the it's the silence between the notes that makes the music It's The Space Between the Bars that holds the tiger it's you you're a

sculptor and you Sculpt yourself a vase and what do you think makes the vase what makes the vase is not is is is not the the the tile and it's not the the uh the substance of the material it's the Inner Space within there that is surrounding it without that Inner Space within there can be no vase and without that Inner Space within you there's no you you're not skin and bone and all that you are that encapsulates an inner silence an inner place that is totally and completely Yours Uniquely Yours your Consciousness expands in

every direction when you do you start practicing things things like kindness where judgment was before I've often said that when you have a choice to be right or to be kind just pick kind why because it's more closely aligned with your spirit you begin to exude something called love you feel it for everyone believe it or not at the end of immaculate's book she goes to the Prison where the people who were her Killers one was her mathematics teacher and what happens is that you begin to embrace a Kind of Love even for the people

who would do such harm to you and I'm telling you that's what saved her you'll see that when you read it that's what saved her the ability to go to that place within that place of forgiveness as Mark Twain said forgiveness is the fragrance That the Violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it powerful thinking you become an instrument of Truth you become someone who listens you become someone who is God realized okay your Consciousness expands in every direction I want to tell you something that I think will be very very H helpful to

you I want you to think about the troublemakers in your life I want you to think about the troubled Ones in your life I want you to think about the ones in your life that are hooked on drugs I want you to think about the ones who don't cooperate the ones who uh don't fit in the ones who perhaps um are disrespectful use language that you don't approve of use substances that you find difficult people that perhaps you work at but mostly I want you to think about people like that in your family now I

know that you think it's always Somebody else but they're thinking of you and I want to tell you about how Consciousness expands in every direction when you take these people who are your greatest teachers the people who have come into your life to teach you how to love them through what it is that they're struggling with what it is that they are going through it's just there's a need there a need to be loved that it's very difficult to love certain people under certain circumstances in Certain ways particularly when they behave in ways that are

that are so Troublesome to you and I want to take you back in my own family and I've been given permission to do this one of my children who got herself in into into that kind of a state as a as a teenager and struggled with her own with her own self and her own addictions and her own fears and the process over longer period of Time I called together a family meeting and I put everybody in the family together and I had everybody in the family tell her how her behavior was affecting everyone else

and each person went through and talked about how difficult it was I went through and talked about how I couldn't sleep and it was my and uh her mom uh told her about how worried she was and how scared she was and how upset she was and and we went through this whole thing With uh with this wonderful beautiful child and um that night she went out and behaved in the same ways that she'd been behaving all along almost as if to say um I just don't need to hear how bad I am any longer

and I want to tell you something that I learned since then talked to I've talked to my daughter about this and today she's this Soul who devotes a big part of her life to helping people who were as troubled as She was at one time divinely beautiful beautiful young lady I want to tell you about a woman her name was peace Pilgrim peace Pilgrim was a woman uh an elderly woman who walked around the country and all she did dressed in white was go into different communities and she would just talk about peace peace that's

all she did she talked peace wherever she went and in the process of talking peace she would uh there would Be no ads and there was no one knew her name she was just called peace Pilgrim I believe there's a website about peace Pilgrim today and uh I was in touch with peace Pilgrim and then it turns out she had read some of my books and we had communicated and then one day she was uh walking along the highway to another town and she was killed by a uh a car that didn't see her was

an accident and and she died but she left a journal behind and in her journal peace Pilgrim This woman who devoted her life to peace talked about the bemba tribe in South Africa and I want to share this with you because this could be one way of returning Spirit to the place in your home where there's emptiness where there's hurt where there's pain where there's fear where there's anger where there's worry in the bemba tribe peace bugrim says when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly he or she is placed in the Center of the village

alone and unfettered all the work ceases the entire Village gathers around the accused individual then each person of every age begins to talk out loud to the accused one at a time each person tells all of the good things the one in the center ever did in his or her lifetime every incident every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy is recounted all positive attributes Good Deeds strengths and acts of Kindness are recited carefully and at length no one is permitted to fabricate to exaggerate or to be factious about the accomplishments or

the positive aspects of the accused person the tribal ceremony often lasts several days not ceasing until everyone is drained of every positive comment that can be mustered at the end the tribal circle is broken a joyous celebration takes place and the person is symbolically welcomed back into the tribe necessity for such Ceremonies is rare now I'd like to think about that in terms of what I learned since the family meeting that I called a decade or so ago if I were to do it over I would place this beautiful child in the center of that

Circle and I would have everyone talk about the wonderful things about her about however wherever we go she she just always thinks about the downtrodden Dad can we just take some Donuts out to these workers these these migrant workers they never get to have just some can't we just go over there come on dad let's just let's just take them some donuts can't we just do something nice for this person I would tell them about the time that she went over on Mother's Day and and uh bought a little a little trinket for her mom

and and wrote a little poem next to it that uh I would talk about how she made us laugh all the time when she was a baby And with that little tongue of hers and the little words that she made up and that funny little way that she walked and uh her own sense of Independence and and we would go on and on and on with this and if we can teach those who are troubled those who cause us pain those who use language that we don't approve of those who dress in ways those who

do things to their bodies that we don't think they should do if we can just immerse them in a in a culture of Acceptance and love even if they're behaving in ways that that seem so anathema to you if you can just find a way to continue to do that eventually that Spirit has to raise and your Consciousness expands in every [Music] direction and four you find yourself in a new and a great and a Wonderful World your world changes the world that you used to live in before you were in spirit is no longer

there when you're touched deeply by living in Spirit by Awakening with the morning Breeze by catching every thought that you have that is not one of God realization by finding yourself saying over and over and over again it is my intention to be in this state of God realization it is my Intention to be there I am going to live in spirit when you do the world changes things that you didn't notice before suddenly come alive I'm going to tell you a story that just blew me away I think it perhaps was the signature Story

of My Life in terms of connecting to Spirit I've never experienced anything like this before I finished writing inspiration your ultimate calling on the 20 3rd of April and I knew that the book was going to uh have 18 chapters in it because 18 is that magical number one Infinite Source One Infinite Source I put that number uh on on my dashboard of my car I have it on the mirror just it's a reminder one Infinite Source 18 it's the number of chapters in the bad it's the number of holes on a golf course it's

got to have something holy To it and um so I had 17 chapters written and I was thrilled to have that completed but I still had one chapter to go but I was holding that off until my birthday on the 10th of May and so and I knew what that last chapter was going to be my experience of uh of living an Inspired Life just telling it on my birthday right around 3:13 or so in the morning so I was essentially Done and I went for a walk that day and when I finished that chapter

that 17th chapter I told a story in there about my friend Jack Bolan he passed away about 12 years ago Jack was a Unity minister in Detroit a man who when I wrote youron three decades ago called me up and asked me if he could put together some tapes on it and would I give him permission and he was he had started a Unity Church over on the east side of Detroit and uh asked me if he could use that I said Absolutely I no and over the years I began to uh speak at his

church and his congregation and and come to Detroit a lot my home and we became very close we became like brothers and um he got very sick and he had uh cancer throughout his back and so on and I went with him to my friend deac chopra's uh place the ayurveda center out in Massachusetts during the day we would go out and then in the evening he would Come in and Jack always had to have a story it had to he had to tell a story and and he started he's talking to me about these

wonderful little creatures called monarch butterflies and how much he love them and and the reason that he loved them he said Wayne these are the most amazing little things in the world I mean they've got a brain the size of a pin prick just no brain essentially and they're made out of tissue paper you Know like toilet paper they're just flimsy little things and they come out and they're they come out of a a crysalis on the on the uh on a branch in a tree in uh in Brazil now they they don't have a

brain and they're made out of toilet paper essentially and they fly to Nova Scotia 4,385 miles away and they spend some time there doing whatever you do in Nova Scotia if you're a monarch Butterfly and then they turn around these pin prick brain toilet paper insects and they fly all the way back to Brazil but not only do they go back to Brazil they go back to the same tree not only they go back to the same tree they go back to the same branch and they start the whole process all over again with another

C I mean it's like I've got a brain that's supposed to be pretty good size I leave my cell Phone in the bedroom I did this just the other day and I walk out of the bedroom I can't find my cell phone I have to call the number on another phone and I'm listening to this funny little sound that I and looked under pillows I know it's over I had a call twice cuz I didn't want to get charged for the first well anyway well and I and these things conf find the same branch that

they were that they came out of a Cocon on so anyway he would tell me about the the miracle of these things all right so I wrote that whole story The 17th chapter is about the language of spirit how Spirit speaks to us in ways that we don't even that we're not even aware of it speaks in terms of alignments when things align when the same numbers appear the same ideas keep showing up when these when these kinds of alignments show up so I called my uh editor Joanna who's here tonight um Who's edited everything

I've done for the last 30 years or so and can only only person in the world who can read my handwriting um and um I read her the story of the of Jack and the monarch butterfly and I called my friend the president of Hay House who's my publisher who's also here tonight Reed Tracy my best friends in the world and um I read both of them the story all right and then because I always do that when I finish a chapter I read it to Just see what it sounds like took off on my

walk it's 12:30 in the afternoon I'm going for a walk along kopali Beach and I walk and I walk and I get out to this place called Black Rock not on West Maui and um I'm walking there and I'm at peace and I'm going to meditate and I got my cell phone with me you know I found it and uh a monarch butterfly flies right out of the tree and I've I don't think I've ever seen Monarchs there before a monarch butterfly flies out of the tree and circles and lands right there 3 ft in

front of me so I think well little bit of a coincidence but uh you know that's cuz I just wrote I just read the whole story just and I reach over to pick up this butterfly and it looks at me like I'm a butterfly you know I I don't deal with humans I my DNA is programmed to stay away from you and it flies away and it goes out about 40 yard And it makes a uturn and it comes back and it lands on my finger right here and I look at it and I have

never had this happen before in my life I've had butterflies brush up against me once but I've never had one just seek me out so it lands here and I immediately reached for my cell phone and I called Johanna you remember and I said Joanna there's a monarch butterfly on my Finger you know what I just read to you this morning she said as she always does she's so sweet and peaceful meditate I said meditate this is a monarch butterfly I just wrote about him and Jack and the she said just go meditate on him

so I call another number and I call re the president of Hay House my buddy all right and I said Reed I read to you this morning about a monarch butterfly I've now got one on my finger it flew to me he said get a picture I said what are you talking about get a picture I'm might got my bathing suit on and a cell phone I don't have a camera he said we've been thinking about what's going to be on the cover of the book he said this is perfect right away thinking about you

know this is inspiration this is like it's come to you for that reason get a Picture get a picture so I went I took Joanna's advice and I meditated now it's 1:00 in the afternoon when this happened and I meditate for 30 minutes and I called Joanna back and I said it's still with me and I call Reed back he said get a picture so now this butterfly I is doing during the meditation I I don't know how to say this without sounding strange but it's uh it's okay Because every word of this is true

I swear to you this butterfly was trying to talk to me I don't know how close you've ever looked at a monarch butterfly but it had tiny little it almost like teeth but they're not really teeth I know they don't have teeth and and I bring the butterfly up real close to my eye and it's it's doing this I swear and I Said Jack CU I had just written about him I thought it was Jack and then I took the butterfly and I put it over by my ear in case it was making little sounds

and it had a little you know I I was just totally freaked out by this thing because it's now been an hour it's been an hour it's now and it won't go it's like I take it over here I put it over on this finger it it'ss over here it won't go and I'm Going okay you know that was not it won't leave it's just connected to me so I walk I think I said maybe Reed's got a point here maybe we need to get a picture of this thing so I decide to walk back

to where I live and I walk along now in the on Maui in the afternoon the trade WI come in and they really blow hard in the afternoon and I'm walk the ocean is over here the trades are coming in and the butterflies Wings toilet paper are all the way bent Over but it won't leave all the way bent as far as it can go and then I come back and I get out of the wind and it goes you know it's like flashing and making sounds and I hold it up so I'm walking along

the beach the beach there and there's a little little girl who she's about four five 6 years old who's totally traumatized because she got the wrong color Slurpee that's that's her issue okay giving her mother more grief you know I Want to tell her about Immaculate in the bathroom I want to tell her you know she want purple I wanted yellow and you gave me purple slurpy I hate purple Slurpees going on and on a real you know so I tap her on the shoulder tears are on and I just well I said uh you

want to see my pet butterfly I did she said what's his name what's his name what's his name I said Jack this is Jack I did and she went she Went from uh I don't know how to say this she went from pissed to Bliss okay I mean I don't know if you can use that she went from you know being so upset to just this total state of bliss and just one second the tears dried up she smiled she wanted to know if she could take it home I said no what are you talking

about this is my butterfly you I get all the way back to where I'm going it's now about 1:30 in the Afternoon about an hour and a half has gone by I I live in a place where they have a concierge downstairs stairs and there's a pool there and there's a girl there her name is Cindy and I I walk upstairs and I call Cindy down at the pool and I said Cindy can you walk over to the ABC store and get a uh portable camera and be here in uh 5 minutes she said do

you want me to come to your apartment with a portable camera and 5 minutes I said yes I do she said Why I said I want you to take a picture of me in my [Applause] butterfly she said uh what are you smoking I said no it's true I found a butterfly and she does yoga and she's like one of these people and she she said okay I also said there's $100 in it for you if you can get here in 5 minutes she went up there came back she had got one of these little

cameras I went out sat on the Leni with the Manuscript and I had 20 I think 29 pictures she got of me with the butterfly and I was posing with it it was like you know over here my butterfly over here I was I did I didn't know what he wanted I don't know what you know so so uh she went that's that's the actual butterfly truly it is now we had to take a different Picture because those you know $13 cameras aren't the kind you can use on photographs on books and so on but

uh I insisted that they put jack on my finger on this so they transposed it through I don't know through computers or whatever so that's the actual butterfly and if flies out of there right now I'm going to fall down all right I promise you so so I get back I had to P She Went took the camera in got the pictures to develop it's now um around 2 2:00 in the Afternoon so it's been or 3:00 in the afternoon it's been 2 hours I that but now I don't know what I'm going to do

with this butter what do you feed a butterfly you know what H do I get a leash you know do I do I get a cage am I going to keep him do I you know get rid of him whatever you know I didn't know what I was going to do with it but um I set it down on the manuscript that I had handwritten that morning where it talked where I talked about Jack and the and The U monarch butterfly and I set it on there figuring it maybe recognized that this is where it

came from or whatever I had it walking around on the and I went in went back took a shower it was gone did a little meditation did a little work and so on came back butterfly is still there 2 and 1 half hours and I reached down after having taking a show and I put my finger down there and the Butterfly looked back up at me just like it did when I went to pick it up down Here as if to say who are you and what are you doing and I'm going to show you

that I'm not sick and this isn't an accident and it took up and it circled me and it took off straight out towards the ocean made a circle and was gone all right and that's my butterfly story and it's uh and what I'm suggesting to you is that you pay attention to the powerful things that show up in your life and that these things that we call Coincidences and so on are much much more aligned with Spirit than you may have ever thought them to be there are no accidents in a universe which has an

organizing intelligence that supports it and creates it and anything like this any of these kinds of things can be very powerful messages it's the language of spirit speaking to you and there's no doubt whatsoever no matter what anybody thinks that I don't know that was Jag and if you're in a place where there are No beginnings and there are no ends and there's no North and there's no South and there's no up and there's no down that means it's infinite and there's only one place and if you're in a place that only has Oneness in

it then it can be anywhere it wants to that Spirit can enter onto Maui on a butterfly just as easily as it can enter into a a butterfly in Brazil or any place else there's no space there's no [Music] Place after you discover yourself to be in a new and a great and a wonderful ful World you'll start noticing these things and then dormant forces faculties and talents come alive dormant forces dormant forces are forces that you thought were inaccessible that um were dead that were not available to you these things that my my teacher

car Carl Yung who I mentioned earlier called synchronicities Or serendipities that um you're having a thought and because of the thought that you are having it uh it manifests right there for you you start noticing it and you don't doubt it you become a being of sharing you become someone who acts as God acts which is someone who is constantly giving who is forgiving I received a letter in the mail that illustrates this this phenomen phenon of dormant Forces coming alive the letter was from a woman who at that time was living in uh in

Topeka Kansas she said dear Wayne thank you so much for your presentations and your tapes you are frequently my traveling companion as I drive in my job I just wanted to add my testimony to the power of meditation and intention I was an on andof meditator but realized how much more smoothly my days went when I Was on it I visited Kenya Africa in June of 2002 and met an 8-year-old orphan girl there as I sat on the ground she crawled into my lap and a voice said take her home a dormant Force take her

home she actually heard this voice I physically turned around but no one was there again the voice said take her home I asked my 18-year-old daughter who was with me on the trip what she thought about my adopting this beautiful Girl and with the quickness of a sprinter she replied go for it when we returned to the states a week later I realized that if I didn't follow through with this adoption I'd always regret it regret seemed much larger than the task of adopting I began doing the meditation each morning and through a series of

Miracles the child was able to come to this country accompanied by a newly made Friend I named her Nelly and she has been a blessing to me and my other children Nelly's adoption was part two of God's plan part one had unfolded a couple of years before and I felt guided to sponsor a series of workshops for which I profited $10,000 with very little time or work and guess what the final cost of adopting Nelly was the first time I heard the voice I chose to disregard it and or think it through making lists of

Pros and cons but I couldn't rest until I proceeded with the workshops that's how I explained to my family that I needed to proceed with adopting Nelly obedience had brought abundance into our lives and now it was time to share that abundance Nelly has brought the abundance of love and forgiveness into our home she is truly a treasure thank you for sharing your gift of this wonderful meditation it changed my life and the life of a little Girl what a beautiful letter I invited Gail to come here and Nelly and I would like them to

stand and be recognized right now gaale and Ellie come on thank you that's so beautiful thank you inspiration Gail and Nelly you inspire me you listen to your dream and you didn't go with the cons you went with the pros and made it happen and we are Honored to have both of you here you you're the beautiful people that this world needs more of one of the things I believe about nobility about true nobility is that true nobility is not about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be and

I think your letter illustrates that when you move into Spirit dormant forces come alive and you're just better Than you used to be and so are you Ryan and so are you Immaculate and so are all of us who listen and take that step to move into Spirit there's a man on this planet whom I've Loved for many many years his name is ramas many of you have heard of him he wrote a book back in the late 1960s called be here now it was the beginning ramdas taught me so much about what kind of

speaker to be what kind of human being to be his teacher neim Koli Baba In India after he left Harvard and went to India he was a Harvard professor and he left all of that behind and he met this great teacher who told him serve God feed people and so he donated all of the proceeds of his uh book be here now to various uh Charities very seldom took a speaking fee had it all donated to Charities 1970 1997 my friend ramdas as you see there was uh struck down with a stroke and I have

been working hard to help him to Rehabilitate himself and uh it's been one of my great Joys and you'll know in a moment why I love this man so much and I've worked so hard to bring his uh the attention of the world to where he is now he ended up with nothing because he gave it all away and uh I came into his life in a ser series of quote fortuitous accidents that uh have allowed me to be of service to him and a few years back um he had many devotes many people who

Just respect him so immensely and I'm one of them I I think of him as one of the greatest speakers I've ever heard he always entered a room from the back um he was always open he was always had a great sense of humor was able to poke fun at himself at any time and uh just great stories of India and meditation and so on someone I love very much and I'm going to show you what kind of a person he was and I'm including this because it's about finding Inspiration in anything like immacula story

tells about finding inspiration in the in the midst of a genocide most of us won't have to encounter such such an undertaking in our lives but there are still many Horrors and many difficulties and many struggles that show up in our life and when we're in spirit we move away from a sense of feeling sorry for ourselves and instead look for what the lesson is steveen Anita had a daughter named Rachel Rachel was brutally murdered and her body was left and they wrote to ramdas who was their teacher and they said how can we after

losing our daughter how can we find spirit how can we be inspired how can we find God in events such as this and there are many of you watching who have encountered these kinds of Acts and has also encountered accidents and things that just don't seem to make sense People just taken away from us at what are seemingly the wrong times and this is what ramdas wrote to Steven Anita one of the most beautiful letters letter I've ever read he said dear Steve and Anita Rachel finished her work on Earth and left the stage in

a manner that leaves those of us left behind with a cry of Agony in our hearts as the fragile thread of our faith is dealt with so violently is anyone strong enough to Stay conscious through such teachings as you are receiving probably very few and even they would only have a whisper of equinity and peace amidst the screaming trumpets of their rage grief horror and desolation I can't assuage your pain with any words nor should I for your pain is Rachel's Legacy to you not that she or I would inflict such pain by choice but

there it is and it must burn its purifying way to completion for something in you dies When you bear the unbearable and it is only in that Dark Night of the soul that you are prepared to see as God sees and to love as God loves now is the time to let your grief find expression no false strength now is the time to sit quietly and speak to Rachel and thank her for being with you these few years and encourage her to go on with whatever her work is knowing that you will grow in compassion

and wisdom from this experience in my heart I know that you and she will meet again and again and recognize the many ways in which you have known each other and when you meet you will know in a Flash what now it is not given to you to know why this had to be the way it was our rational Minds can never understand what has happened but our hearts if we keep them open to God will find their own intuitive way Rachel came through you to do her work on Earth which includes her manner of

death now Her soul is free and the love that you can share with her is invulnerable through the Winds of changing time and space in that deep love include me in love ramdas I just don't think writing gets any better than that and for those of you who can't figure it out perhaps just listening to those words and being able to find inspiration even in the most horrifying of times when you're in Spirit you have a different kind of a knowing one that doesn't require you to continue to [Music] suffer and finally number six the

rewards for being in spirit you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed that you could be you practice radical humility people who have inspired me in my life include Rosa Parks passed away not too long ago Nelson Mandela President Kennedy in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis when he went within and and found a way by connecting to his private source to avoid a nuclear confrontation Martin Luther King Jr's teachings about the only way to convert an enemy to a friend is is through love there's no other way

but you know I would be remiss in a program on inspiration if I didn't include the person perhaps the one person who has Been my greatest source of inspiration I was born in 1940 the youngest of three my father walked out in fact when my mother brought me home from the hospital she told me that my father had moved in with another woman and left my oldest brother who was four and my next oldest brother Dave Jim and Dave who was two less than two in the care of a Four-year-old he was uh someone who

paid no support who wandered who was frequently with other women and so on I was an alcoholic and um visited a lot of uh difficulty there was no time in those days for welfare and so on there was a depression my brother was anemic my mother was working for a while as a candy girl earning $17 a week and she put my brother Dave and myself into a series of foster homes sponsored by the Methodist Church because there just simply was no other way but her nightmare was very very real her family had been split

but she held a vision of re reuniting her family one day she visited when it was possible but we were 17 miles away in Mount Clemens and it might as well have been 17,000 Miles because she didn't drive had no automobile or any way to get out there Hardly did what she could she could get a Ride but in 1949 she married a man that she really wasn't in love with just because she wanted to reunite her boys and got us all back together married another alcoholic abusive man when he wasn't drinking he was fine

but he never wasn't drinking and I can remember my mom waking up every morning in those years when I was nine until I was about 17 getting up at 5:00 in the morning taking Three buses to work at Chrysler where she was a secretary working all day coming home getting home at4 to 6 off the bus at Peerless and Moross Road and coming in and then making dinner for her three Hungry Boys and doing this over and over and over again everyone in our neighborhood loved our home because my mom was this cool lady that

just never was anything but Positive and uplifting she uh none of us would ever have even for a moment disrespected her she didn't she didn't demand our respect but uh she certainly got it she took incredible pride in herself never would leave the home without her hair perfectly quaffed and in the right clothes and so on weekends for my mom in those days um were um spent down in the basement washing Clothes and ironing clothes her mornings were spent making lunches working working working and then her own mother became very sick and I watched as

my mother took care of her mother she had four other siblings but um it was always her everything was on her she brought her into her home cooked for her took care of her until she passed away and then Wonder of Wonders my stepfather whom she had uh finally divorced when I was 15 his alcohol use And tobacco use was finally taking its final toll and I watched her as she went to the home of this man who had done nothing but abuse her in all the years he was with her and she cooked for

him and she did his laundry for him and she took care of him and provided for him today she approaches 90 she still bowls twice a Week she she um drives herself takes care of herself doesn't complain she lives and breathes love in every way and in a book that I picked up by Michael Murphy called what I meant to say what happened was uh they were leaving a Thanksgiving dinner and Michael looked at his mom and they were exchanging uh just sort of oh polite Expressions and he it was just small talk yeah Mom

thanks for Thanksgiving and so on and he looked and he wrote this book and he wrote these words he said what I meant to say was how can I possibly say goodbye to the person who was the first to hold me the first to feed me and the first to make me feel loved from a distance I watch you move about doing the mundane tasks that to everyone else seems so routine but for me the tasks you lovingly Completed year after year built and reinforced the foundation the structure that made my world a safe and

comfortable place to grow all that I am and all that I can be traced back to is you whatever accomplishments I have made along the way would not have occurred without first believing in myself and you you were the person who always believed In me now with a family of my own I am amazed at the number of times I hear your words flow from my mouth this phenomenon was at first most irritating but now it warms me as I've come to understand that there's a part of you that will live on in me forever

when time Parts us I pray that you will reach across from the other side to again touch my face and whisper in my ear for your warm and gentle Presence in my life for this I will always be most thankful yes Mother you inspire me my mom than inspiration can come from anywhere you can be a source of it and you can find it in a book you can find it in a painting you can find it in a conversation you can find it in a movie I can't tell you how many of those kinds

of things have been sources of Inspiration to me there was a great composer his name is Don mlan and he wrote some great music bye bye miss American Pie Dr my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry you know that and he also wrote another song that he wrote after he read the story of a man who was a great artist his name was Vincent van go and on the 30th of March in 1850 52 and Cornelia van go gave birth to a Brand new little boy named Vincent vham Van go and he

was still born and she buried him the next day one year to the day later on March the 30th 1853 and Cornelia van go gave birth to a second little boy named Vincent vham van go who became one of the great artists never sold a painting in his lifetime but today his paintings sell in the millions and millions of dollars he was a troubled young man he believed that he was a replacement Child some say some say that he was the same child who came back the second time but he went through a troubled troubled

life he struggled for his San he struggled for it and he did some beautiful paintings some of the most beautiful ever done of ragged people and Don mlan read a book about B go and was so inspired just by the reading of that book that he wrote a Song that he called Vincent on the 27th of July in 1890 at the age of 37 after having painted some of his most beautiful paintings one of which was called Starry Night Vincent Van go walked out to his Artic artistic writing place with his brushes in one hand

and a revolver in The other and he placed it to his heart and he shot himself in the heart it took him two days to die and when Don mlan read about that he wrote a song the lyrics to which have always touched me touched me so deeply starry starry night one of the essential principles for living an inspired life is to remember that our desires don't arrive on our schedule they arrive when they're supposed To I'd like to close out this program on inspiration with all of these inspiring participants all of the wonderful help

of all of you who have inspired me so much with a quote from one of my great teachers Ralph Waldo Emerson we are very near to Greatness one step and we can be safe can't you take the one Leap just one Leap and from A Course in Miracles I leave you with these beautiful words there is a way of living a way of living in the world that is not here although it seems to be you do not change appearance though you smile more frequently your forehead is Sur dream your eyes are quiet you walk

this path as others walk nor do you seem to be distinct from them although you are Indeed thus can you serve them while you serve yourself a new way of living to be in spirit thank you for watching God bless [Applause] you for