The Power of Consciousness and Divine Intelligence with Dr. Wayne Dyer

Everything is seen as a series of apparent causes and effects and this is the issue it's we have a tendency to believe that I did this and then this caused this and this caused this and this keeps us here at this ordinary level of Consciousness because we're always in chronological time when you shift out of chronological time into vertical time Eternal time you begin to see that time is uh is really Something that doesn't even exist it's not what we measure here on our wrist it shifts around it's like even when I'm up here on

a stage time I mean it's like I've been talking for an hour and 15 minutes and that's like five minutes to me three minutes to me it is uh it is such a time of change for me in my life and um many profound things are happening faster than I can even keep track of them I'll be sharing some of Them here with you uh this morning um I have in front of me this beautiful rose and U the great poet from the uh from 800 years ago in the 13th century his name was Jala

luden roomi mevlana which means our master in fary jel roomi who's one of the great alltime poets and a Divine spiritual master who walked Among Us U 87 years ago he was Born uh he once said that uh what was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest when I met you and he was speaking about God that there's something something invisible something formless something perhaps spiritual um that is really moving all the pieces around and orchestrating everything in our lives uh Including us every single thought that

we have every desire that we have um are all placed there by something that is uh much more profound than we're even capable of being aware of because the problem for most of us is that um we haven't been raised to believe that this Divine intelligence that's in each and every one of us uh which is capable of Performing Miracles And creating virtually anything we place our attention on we've been instead we've been raised to believe in our ordinariness and what's not possible and what limitations we have how far we can go go and how

far we can't go and it's taken me a long time to come to a place where I have an awareness that every single thought that I have that's placed inside of my head is not really there placed there by Me by my Human personality it's placed there by uh something that I'm calling my impersonal personality the same thing that's in each and every single one of us and uh it's an exciting thing to come to and exciting awareness to have um I have just completed a there's another wonderful quote by butter rose that's so nice

it says that uh and the day came it was an nias nin who's a wonderful writer she said and the day Came when the risk of remaining tight in a Bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom like you get to a point in your life where uh where staying the same is more difficult than making the shift into into this spiritual awareness about what you're capable of and uh I have a a quote here from a great French philosopher his name was Renee Deart he said in order to reach the truth

it is necessary at some point in one's life to rid one oneself of all of the opinions one has received and to rebuild one's entire system of Knowledge from the very foundations and this could be the moment this could be the morning um that you may make that decision um but it will come and what it what it involves is uh Something that I put down in I I don't know if many of you saw the recent public television special but I years ago um I was in a workshop out in Seattle and um there

was a a woman who was in the workshop her name was Porsha Nelson and Porsha Nelson um and all of us had been asked to take a card like this and to write down um the five chapters of our Life chapter one chapter 2 chapter 3 but we were given actually the cards were 3x5 these are 5 by sevens because they didn't want it to be real long just like where have you gone in your life up until this point and this is what uh Porsche wrote it was brilliant it was published later and um

I even paid her so that I could put it on my public television special uh about 10 years ago and then she passed away and I used it again and I want to just share it here With you this morning she said um chapter one of my life I walk down the street there's a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in I am lost I'm helpless it isn't my fault and it takes forever to find a way out that's chapter one she said chapter two of my life I walk down the same street there's

a deep hole in the Sidewalk I pretend I don't see it I fall in again I can't believe I'm in the same place it isn't my fault and it still takes a long time to get out chapter three of my life I walk down the same street there's a deep hole in the sidewalk I see it there I still fall in it's a habit but my eyes are wide open I know where I am it's my own fault And I get out immediately chapter four of my life I walk down the same street there's a

deep hole in the sidewalk I walk around it chapter 5 of my life finally I walked down another street that great yeah and that's really I guess what I want to share with You because many of you know I've just uh published a new book it's called I can see clearly now and it's um it's really a look back at um it's not a memoir it's not an autobiography um but it's um it's a look back at all of these significant events and the people and the circumstances that have uh that have shown up in

my life that as I look back I can see much more clearly what was taking place what was happening and It's really my effort to um ask you to do the same thing about your own life because our life is really like a tapestry and even the darkest the darkest threads in a tapestry add Beauty to that tapestry and some of the threads in my life have been very dark and have been very painful um and yet it was in those it was in those moments that um perhaps uh the most enlightening things started to

show up in my life and the and the Shift away from uh the ego and all of my beliefs about how important I was uh and into the awareness about a great truth that uh PR of shardan this great French priest who was uh excommunicated from the Catholic church because of his uh strange points of view he said that uh we are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience that's not who we are that essentially who we are is a reverse of that all of us are infinite Spiritual Beings having a very

temporary Human Experience and when we begin to live our life from that W that awareness from that knowing that who I am is infinite because being able to answer the question um who am I is one of the toughest things for any of us to to really come up with something that is Meaningful um if I were to ask you to write something similar that what porsa Nelson wrote and ask you to Define who you are most of you would come up with The most of us would all come up with the labels uh you

know what my name is and where I live and how many people I have in my family and uh what kind of job I have what kind of interest that I have and so on um but when the uh great teacher one of the great teachers in my life man named uh mukanda was asked the question what is real master they said what is real his Response I've never forgotten and I've used it a lot in my life he said that is real which never changes so there's something inside each and every one of us

that is changeless that is deathless that is birthless and if you think that it's your body then your body is a whole lot different than Mine I have a picture of myself on my wall when I was 21 years old when I was running and um that was over 50 years ago and I look at that picture and I can't find one single cell that was in that body from 20 50 years ago that's here today this body is completely different uh every single cell of my being uh has changed so that leaves out all

of the other Things that we Define oursel with and we have to come to to find the place within us that is uh that is deathless that is birthless that has no form that has no beginning that has no end and it's something that's just it's just um it's just the most important thing that you'll ever discover in your life when that awareness becomes true within yourself so as I Was preparing to Write this book and it was June the 26th it was 2012 the almost two years ago exactly my children I have eight children

six girls and two boys um they have been amongst my greatest teachers in my life um I can remember um how they always kept me so humble and kept me close to the ground I mean uh anytime that I would raise my voice or say something That was inconsistent with what I was saying on television or what I was writing in all of my books and uh and being a little impatient and perhaps losing uh losing my temper just a bit and saying something uh to the kids I would have one of them just stand

up they usually stood up like this with one hand on their hip you know their eyes roll back 11 12 13 years old and said I wonder what all those people would think of Mr Positive if they could see him here this morning that was one of the great ones I heard from my daughter Serena would you buy a book from someone who yells at his 10-year-old daughter I don't understand that probably the greatest line I ever heard from any of my children when I so now I would follow them around and say come on

say something stupid I really need some uh I need some material they were all sitting around The breakfast table one morning all getting ready to go to school and I was driving them to school and um I Heard Serena uh sitting here and her sister summer Serena was 11 I think or 10 and her sister summer two years older so she was like 13 and she looked over at uh at Serena and said uh so if you didn't have any feet would you wear shoes and I was over there I Was preparing breakfast for them

at the Toaster you know putting it down waffles in the toaster uh and I said where is this going and Serena responded that's the dumbest thing you've ever said don't even talk to me this is 6:30 in the morning she said that's just so dumb don't even talk to me that's so ridiculous what do you mean if I didn't have any feet would I wear shoes that's so stupid of course not and summer said hey don't get mad at me I was just wondering why you're Wearing that [Applause] bra so now I could spend the

rest of this morning telling you anecdotes like that but that's kind of the way it was in our home great teachers all of my children and now they're writing their own books I'm so proud of them and creating their own CDs and U really uh making a huge difference in the world I can say that About each and every one of them that they they all have a heart um that is based upon living in a spiritual family um at any rate it was June the 26 it was two years ago and I live on

Maui thank you and uh so everybody was coming for the summer because they live in Florida and Minnesota and Ohio they're spread around a bit but they were all coming with their with their their own families And so on it was going to be a great time for everybody to be together and I announced to all of them that I was uh I've written 42 books um I've been doing it since I was 15 years old I wrote a novel when I was uh just in high school called the anomalous compatriot which was horrible never

published but um a part of what I can see clearly now is a reflection of that if you want to be a writer it's something that's in your Soul um I call it writing from the soul a list listening to that uh that thing inside of you in fact the very last um paragraph of this book um says in order to access guidance I encourage you to make a commitment to be absolutely faithful to that which exists nowhere else but within yourself this is the great secret for seeing ever more clearly and living your life

from a place of passion and purpose that there is a place that Exists only within you and to be faithful to that so I have been doing that since I was 15 years of age and been writing and writing and writing and and taking on the task of writing um I write I write by hand I don't use a machine um I put the pad of paper here I put my left hand on the table and with my purple pen I write uh and I allow the in for me it's Like a circuit and I

allow it to flow through my heart and onto the page and very often it takes six seven 800 individual pages that you have to fill from in here or from out there and you just have you're you're really like a channel very much like what's happening right now even these words that are coming out of my mouth I I don't own them I don't even know where they're coming from Um but I just listen and I just allow it and then I'm done with it I give it to my editor who incarnated here to be

an editor uh and I came here to be a writer uh and a speaker and it's what my heart tells me to do it's why I'm here this morning um so the idea of sitting down and writing another book is it's it Bears heavy on my soul it's Like it's just it takes it's just exhausting um and it requires an enormous amount of discipline to sit there day in and day out because I every book of every word that I've written in every book is something that has uh all come from me I've never I

don't have anybody else to co-author with I don't have anybody else that I assign to write it for me it's all something that I take very personally and very uh uh it's very important and significant to me but it's Also just so exhausting and it just takes so much and I was 72 years old then and I just said that's enough and I told everybody I'm not g to I'm not going to write any more books I'm just done with that and um so I'm going to use my time to do some other things which

I really excited about um some films um um and other projects that I don't even want to talk about yet so that was the 26th of June on the morning of the 27th of June I started writing I can see clearly now and I wrote and I wrote I wrote and wrote I wrote every single day now the children were all there they're filling up my uh my space there um in fact they filled that up so much uh we were all going to just kind of gather together because it's summertime and you can sleep

on sleep on air mattresses and sleep on the couches and so on and just everybody's Just all there and it's just a great time for everybody to be together I had to go out and actually rent a place in order to have the Privacy to do the writing that I uh that was just so filling my soul it was so significant that in one moment I had shifted away from and I thought that I was in charge of this now I was being interviewed about uh oh maybe 12 11 or 12 years ago I was

In New York City and I was being interviewed by the New York Times and also there was a man who's also being interviewed by the New York Times his name is Arthur Miller um the Great American playwright you know death of a salesman The Crucible um plays that I recommend you read now that you don't have to and that you're not going to be tested on it at the end of the semester but just because it's just so profound he was just a Great a great artist and a great speaker and a great teacher and

probably most famous for being married to Marilyn Monroe for a few years um so he was asked the question as I was sitting there waiting he was asked the question are you working on another play now at that time Arthur Miller was uh 91 years old I think he was 90 91 or 92 and so when the interviewer said are you working on another play his response Was something that I've never forgotten he said I don't know but I probably am and that just resonated so deeply within me that that there is that there is

something invisible that um that is directing this play that we call our life and and our human personality isn't the thing that's in charge of it at All and when you begin to surrender to that and when you begin to understand that and when you begin to live from that place where you're uh surrendering to to it and just allowing many years ago my my sister-in-law gave me a pillow that she crocheted or I don't know if you crochet a pillow but whatever it was macade or something it's beautiful anyway uh and it has uh

it had the words written on the on the on the pillow said uh I'm Allowed and I had that I had that pillow just sitting there on the couch and every time I would wonder whether or not I should do this or I can do that or is this the proper thing to do it was always those just those two simple little words I'm allowed I'm allowed to do whatever it is that doesn't interfere with anybody else's right to be allowed to do what they feel they can do that that's something that's within me that

I have that and that I don't need Permission so this whole idea of being allowed so for the when Arthur Miller said was so profound that it's like now I don't ever make any pronouncements about what I'm going to do or what I'm not going to do um even even when it comes to speaking and doing those kinds of things because it's like you have to find a way within yourself to follow your excitement to follow your passion um that thing that's inside each And every one of us that says you have to do this

you have to go in that direction there's uh you know that if you look at the word enthusiasm and break bre it down the word itself in Greek means in Theos which is God yzm means within the God within that there is something if I could take any person that's sitting here in this room and sit down with you for less than an hour I could find something inside of You that is so passionate that is calling you to do but that perhaps probabably you you have allowed yourself to have yourself be directed by something

um that perhaps your family or your parents or your culture has decided this is what you should be doing this is how you should be going this is the direction your life should go um but there's there's like this this word this word Dharma and it means uh it means you're like your Divine Purpose that you didn't show up here by accident nothing in this universe comes here by accident and there's something in here that calls you to that excitement and whenever it is that that excites you inside of you that you feel you have

to do but you've you've disallowed it because you've submitted to somebody else's idea of what your Dharma should be is the cause for so many things that are uh that are troubling and difficult so much illness So much sickness that goes on in our world is because you have just not allowed yourself to be your you see we have a concept of ourself and our concept of ourself is everything that we believe to be true about oursel and everything that we believe to be true about oursel gets us to a certain level a level that

we call average a level that is uh what we call ordinary so if you want to transcend Ordinary if you want to transcend just being in the just being in the game rather than being in charge of the game then you have to change the things that you've come to believe are true and letting go of things that are that you believe to be true is one of the most difficult things you can ever encounter in 1978 one of the stories that I tell in here in 1978 um I was 38 years old I had

written Uh two uh books that both had topped the bestseller lists your erroneous zes and pulling your own strings and they had been published in many different languages around the world and uh my ego was really on fire I was on that I was doing the Johnny Carson show on a regular basis and um you know doing just having a lot of celebrity kind of status and so on and because of just a couple of simple self-help books that I had written uh which had attracted a lot of Attention around the world I um I

was invited to uh Vienna in Austria to do a a week long uh University uh through an organization called YPO young president's organization in order to be a member of the YPO you had to be uh under the age of 50 and the president of a company that had more than I think it was 500 employees it might have been 50 I'm not sure it was either 50 or 500 anyway you were you were president and you had to Be under 5050 and uh and this was an a an organization that uh of some very

powerful people in fact when I was there the vice president of the United States was actually speaking to that group with me as well his name was Walter mandale uh 1978 and uh and I was only invited because I had written these two books that's the and they put me on a pan in 1978 uh with two other people to speak to all of these presidents there were maybe seven or 800 of these presidents there um the other person on the panel was Virginia Sati who had written a lot of books on family therapy and

so on and I had was familiar with her work but I was also placed on the panel in one of the most humbling experiences of My Life um with a man whose books that I had not only read but I had Uh I had placed as required reading on uh every course that I taught at the University I was a professor at St John's University in New York City and um until 1976 so that that was it was required reading and when I was a doctoral student um I used this man's writing as a big

part of my doctoral dissertation his name was Victor Frankle Victor Frankl wrote a book that I think should be mandatory reading for everybody in this room Um it was called Man's Search for meaning for meaning uh logo therapy which means knowledge and that and Victor Frankl was living in Vienna in 1939 and he was taken away by the Nazis and placed in a concent ation Camp excuse me in osic and also in daau and and he talked about how what it was like to be under these circumstances and He said that I had lunch with

him immediately after the uh after the presentation I gave my talk my talk on on your erroneous owns and pulling your own strings which in German was called Dunder pun your wondrous points uh and the amazing thing to me is that he had actually read this book in German um just a brilliant beautiful soul and what he had endured he lived through five years of being in these concentration Camps as a brilliant medical doctor um his entire family was taken away and U and executed except for one sister who immigrated to Australia and and he

talked about the people who survived and he said that um we were given he said a bowl of dirty water with a floating fish head in the water and that was our protein and that was our meal for the day and he said if for those of us who couldn't find Beauty in the circumstances that we were in we would find that they just simply wouldn't survive that they couldn't find meaning in their life and when we went to lunch after the talk and I was just so humbled and so honored just to be in

the presence of this beautiful man that I actually went to osich and I went to daau and I write about my experiences in those places here and I can see clearly now they were clearly turning points in my life meeting Dr Frankle was one of the most significant moments in my life and what he said to me at lunch that day is something that I've never forgotten and I share it with you he said that when we are confronted with situations over which we have no control we are challenged to change ourselves and if we

are not able to change ourselves that is what we have Come to believe is true then we will be stuck in ordinary or we won't even survive when we're in circumstances that he was in so it's what I throw out to you and what I say to each and every one of you as you as you contemplate and look back at your own life and all of the circumstances and the people that have showed up in it that events such as my meeting with Dr Franco which occurred just a short time after I had perhaps

The most meaningful experience of my own life the turning point in my own life was in 1974 four years earlier when in August the 30th I ended up at my uh my father's grave through a series of just bizarre circumstances which there's too they're too involved for me to spend too much time on them here this morning but I was sent there by some force in the Universe in order to get my life off of the pattern that it was in at that time I had for my entire life I had been filled with rage

and anger towards this man called my father whom I had never seen because he walked out on my mother right after I was born in 1940 and her three children myself and my two older brothers so here she was a woman with uh three children under the age of four um with a depression going on and a War going on my mother had one brother who was a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany at the time and another brother who was in the military on a ship off in near Japan and she was all alone

and he just decided that he couldn't take on the responsibilities that were this of taking care of a family and so I was placed into a series of foster homes and orphanage until I Was 10 years of age with my next oldest brother David and those 10 years were very significant years in my life many people asked me were you filled with rage were you upset were you angry about that and I said the only thing I was ever angry about was my father I just never understood how somebody could have three children and just

walk away and never even make a phone call never send a penny in in uh in help and so on and um I have a sense of that you know everything that happens to us happens to us for a reason I've often said even to my kids that you know before I came into this world I had a conversation with God and God said what would you like to do this time around in this uh Incarnation and I said uh I get the choice said yeah I said well I'd like to uh I'd like to

spend this lifetime just teaching self-reliance and God said you want to Spend an entire lifetime teaching self- reli sence I said yeah that's exactly what I'd like to do and God said well then we better get your little ass into an orphanage and you're going to spend a Whole Decade there and you're going to learn to rely upon yourself because there's not going to be anybody else there to do it for you and once you have that IM emblazoned in your Consciousness it's the Experience of something it's the old Chinese proverb I hear and I

forget I see and I remember I do and I understand there is no way to understand self-reliance until you learn to rely upon yourself particularly in those kinds of circumstances so it's those that experience is a very profound and important experience to have so that's how I look back on it but I grew up with this rage in my heart dreams my my mother finally got her family back Together again she remarried uh my father in another body an alcoholic my father died of therosis of the liver at the age of 49 as an alcoholic

um my stepfather was a raging alcoholic an angry man um I was 10 years old when I first uh met my oldest brother um and our family was reunited um and it was uh it was that that deep anger that I had inside of me that I would wake up And I'd be sweating I'd be having a fight I'd be punching him I'd be just like how could we even made a film about this called my greatest teacher which um I think is here I think it's available uh and so I was for some reason

my life was out of control uh I would try to find my father I would make phone calls I would uh I even went to his mother's which would be my grandmother whom I had never met but I found out that uh when she passed away Uh and I volunteered at the age of 15 to be a paw Bearer at my father's at my grandmother's uh funeral because I was finally going to meet my father after all the searching and so on just 15 years old I remember it well because I I I was I

had a learner's permit a driver's permit and I was my older brother I was allowed to drive for the first time uh all the way over to the other side of Detroit in order to go to this uh this home that to meet this Family that I had never known or seen knew nothing about and I was a Paul Bear there and I just kept waiting I'm going to see my father he's going to show up this is going to be so fantastic and he didn't show um he sent some poultry flowers from a place

in West blooming rose West Virginia where he had uh hooked up I think with his sixth or seventh wife um and it was just another one of those disappointments then when I was 18 and 19 I went on a tour across the country looking for my father the different places and the clues just so that I could have a there was just something inside of me my two brothers couldn't care less it was not important to them at all but for me there was something that was calling me and finally I gave up the search

went into the Navy spent four years in the Navy got out of the Navy went to school um went all the way through to graduate School and U then in 1974 when I was 34 years of age I was invited to go down to uh Mississippi to do some work for the federal government and checking on whether the uh civil rights laws of the 1960s were being implemented and after that was over I went down to buuy Mississippi where I had heard that my father was buried and I went to my father's Grave Melvin ly

Dyer 1914 1964 he had been dead for 10 years I had found out about it from a cousin that I didn't even know I had the reason I tell this story is because because it was the most significant moment of my life I went to the Grave I looked at the little marker on the ground that had his Name and I really went there to do something on his grave that wasn't about love and spirituality and kindness I truly was going to go piss on his grave that's really one of the that's what was directing

me to go there I was just so filled with rage towards this man and while I was on the on the grave site and just standing there looking and talking to this man I was hollering and I was screaming and I was full of rage And and finally then I went back to the rental car I had a rental car then I was going to fly back was going to drive it back to New Orleans and catch a flight back to uh New York City uh and teach at the uh in the fall semester of

1974 at St John's University in Queens where I was an associate professor and I got back into the car and I started to drive away and something called me Back that something is the thing that opened this Rose that's something inside each and every one of us is is who we really are are it's our true Essence this body of ours and all of these and our mind and all of the things that we believe in and all of the labels that we have all of this stuff is the ego it's the false Self it's

the part of us that really believes that who I am is what I have and what I do and what other people think of me it's my reputation it's my accomplishments it's all the things that I own all of it is irrelevant it's not it's not at all who you are who you are is not the personal self it's the impersonal self and that impersonal self that's in Every single one of us that's in every flower that's in every orange that's in every living thing in this universe it's in each and every one of us

and it is directing Our Lives if we're only willing to listen it called me back I went back to his grave and I stood there and completely changed my life in two minutes I said I don't even know where The words came from honestly I said from this moment on I send you love from this moment on I will only think Loving Thoughts of you who who am I to judge you who am I to decide what you should have been you did what you knew how to do given the conditions of your life and

the conditions of his life as a Young Man were very horrible I forgive You I never had another dream about my father even to this day in fact I always feel whenever I tell that story and I never know I'm going to tell it because because I really believe that our desires the things that are really pushing us to move in a certain direction are placed there by God or the da or whatever you want to call this Divine mind that's in each and every one of us I left got in the Car a completely

changed man I got back up to New York on the first September and I had two weeks before the fall semester started the 15th of September is when the fall semester started so I had two free weeks and I got in an airplane and I flew down to Fort Lauderdale Florida and I checked into the spin rft motel and I wrote a book in 14 days Called yonia SS from cover to cover in fact I wrote so fast and so furiously that one night after writing all night I looked all over this motel room because

I had forgot to number the pages and I had written like 70 some pages that night it was just flying to me you know and I was pulling them out and writing oh this must be page 41 and this is 42 and but uh And then I flew back to New York and um everything in my life started to shift I was overweight at the time I started running I was drinking I stopped having alcohol I haven't had alcohol in my body for over three decades now almost three decades um I was uh in a

terrible relationship at the time um that all shifted and changed it just moved on um I started being Conscious of uh of being a more loving being your erroneous Zs became one of the biggest selling books of all time today there's uh about a 100 million copies of it in print and like 47 languages around the world and it was the it was the turning point in my life and it all happened in one moment of forgiveness so that when we carry around rage and anger and hatred and bitterness and fear and anxiety and stress

inside Of us through our thoughts um it's really impacting Us in ways that we can't even begin to comprehend when you let it go and when you shift into a place of love into a place of divine love which is really what I want to speak about here today this place called Divine love roomie said that when you are born a lad is placed before you and this lad is placed there before you he said in order to help you to escape From this world and there are various rungs on this ladder and I have

decid I have lived from a different place in my life once I've understood this I was originally trained to be a jungian analyst like the study of Carl Jung that's what I was doing my dissertation on that's what and I changed it all when I met Dr Abraham Maslo but Yung had this comment he said from the beginning of my life he said I had a sense of Destiny as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled this gave me an inner security and though I could never prove it

to myself it proved it self to me I did not have this certainty it had me does that make sense to you I mean let me say it to you again from the beginning of my Life I had a sense of Destiny and this is true for every single one of us here I have the mic so this is what I really believe in and I'm saying to you I have lived from this perspective it's what I can see clearly is all about as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to

be fulfilled I wonder how many of you feel that that there's something that you're here for something more than just what Your ego's demands are it's called The False self you know this part of us that believes that I am what I accumulate and what I accomplish and what I own and what other people think of me and I'm separate from everybody else it's like the stuff that we've been trained on is what gets us to ordinary we never get past extraordinary as long as we're hooked on this ego this gave me an inner security

and Though I could never prove it to myself it proved itself to me I didn't have this certainty it had me now I can't say that was true for me for my whole life but I can say for sure it's true today as I look back and as I wrote the stories of my life the you know the first book that really impacted me in my life was read to me in the in the fourth grade it was the first year I was living with my mother and my Two brothers and every day at the

end of class Mrs Engel would say to us if you behave if the class behaves we will hear you will hear me read I will read from this book and the other kids didn't care so much about it I was so profoundly influenced by this book that was being read to by Mrs Eng Les at the end of the day that I became the enforcer in the fourth grade class and if anybody got out of line and I it's amazing because As I started to write this I could relive my entire fourth grade year and

I could see uh Fred Green sitting over here and really I could see erene sitting over here and I could see Dick Powell sitting over here when then they would start talking I would get up and say sh quiet and for some reason I they listen to me and I said why I said because I want to hear what she got to say in the book And the book was called The Secret Garden a book that they made a musical about they made a they've written a you know they've done a whole play about but

for me it's like I would walk home from school from Chester Arthur Elementary School up Peerless Street to my home and I would think about a secret garden that a secret garden is something that we have inside of us I I've written 42 books they're all about a secret garden about a secret place inside each every One of us that allows us to fulfill a destiny that was that is why we showed up into this world why we went from the world of the formless into the world of form why we got past that ego

of ours two years later my stepfather Bill who was you know always drunk um and you know with three teenage boys now it was a it was a strange environment I'll just put it that way um but he had a show that he would watch on Tuesday nights opposite the uncle uh Uncle Mily show The Milton Burl show you remember I don't know if you're old enough to remember Milton burrow back in 1953 at the beginning of Television no you're not but it was the most popular show on television but we didn't watch it at

our home because he was a he was a big fan of he was a Catholic and he was a fan of the guy who was on opposite Milton Boro it was named Bishop fton Sheen and Bishop Fon Sheen had a show on on every Tuesday night and I got So excited and involved in watching this show that I used to take a yellow pad of paper and sit there and take notes and say to myself I swear to you this is true I would take notes and say to myself I could do this I could

talk on television and and and keep uh people interested now since 1998 I've done 10 public television specials speaking just like Bishop Fon Sheen um and we've raised a quarter of a billion dollars for public television I'm proud to Say and it's not an accident that the show was called life is worth living you can YouTube it now um and you'll see the uh you can see different excerpts of it because when I was writing this I went back and started watching it again and thinking and just I became like this 13-year-old boy sitting there

taking notes why was I so excited about something called the life is worth living as a 13-year-old boy because it was part of a Dharma part of something that I came here to be I can see it now as I look back on every one of the circumstances and by the way it's true for every single one of you when Bishop Sheen um won the Emmy the first Emmy Award was granted to Bishop Sheen opposite the most popular show on television and Milton burrow was asked how did he feel about his competition getting the Emmy

Award his response was so great he said well he said uh he had better writers you know Matthew Mark Luke John said I I can't compete with them what I did with I Can See Clearly Now is go through these these lifechanging turning events that um as I look back on them now I can see that uh there was something moving the pieces around in my life you have to find you have to listen to your excitement that thing inside of You that said this is what I want to do I have one of my

daughters she's sitting right over here looking on her uh doing something on her she's tweeting something yes however that works her name is Tracy um she was born in the middle of the Detroit Riots uh in 1967 on the 1 of August and um was working uh gone to Michigan State got a couple of degrees was doing well was a an executive at a place called uh Best Buy in uh Minneapolis had all The benefits that you could want and everything but this you know when we would talk every single day on the telephone over

and over again about uh you know she said I'm making good money I've got good benefits you know it's a but and reminded me of of something that happened to me uh in 1976 when I was driving down the Long Island Expressway and I was on my way into the university and I had just written your erroneous zones um I wanted to talk About it I wanted to take it across the country and I was driving in my Volkswagen down the Long Island Expressway and something came over me something so overwhelming came over me that

I actually had to pull over onto the shoulder of the Long Island Express way and Catch My Breath because I was just about to receive tenure now I don't know if you know what tenure is when you're a professor in a university but everybody fights for it And tries to get it and most of them want it and it was something that I was going for as well I had written three textbooks I was really on my way I was just written this erroneous s which was just published but U nobody knew anything about it

um and I was about to be granted tenure which means that I would be working working at this University in this office teaching these same courses for the next 40 years of my Life and so many people were so excited because it was a very hard thing to get but I was guaranteed that I was going to get it and there was something inside here that just kept saying is this what you really want you really want to spend the next 40 years years of your life doing exactly the same thing because I've often said

I'm when I when I say I'm 74 years old it's like does that mean I've lived one year 74 Times or have I lived 74 years in which I am growing and listening to that inner guidance that is directing me towards extraordinariness in order to go past ordinary you have to give up the things that you've hung on to in your life that you believe to be true and I drove into the university I went up to the marilac hall the second floor went into Dean Sarah Fen me's office and told her that I was

going to Resign that I was giving up my professorship which was a very cherished thing I must promise you in 1976 and I resigned I went across the country with Tracy she was 9 years old at the time uh um and visited every Market uh on my own uh and Tracy I was tell I would tell Tracy that story now Tracy was uh this was what how long ago honey was it seven years ago 10 years ago 10 years Ago and I said to her I said um did what do you feel inside she said

I feel like I wanted I'm a designer she said I I want to create I feel for the planet I don't think that we're treating our planet well she said I'd like to I'd like to design like handbags or something or something to do with uh with this kind of uh with this kind of work she said but I can't give up the I Can't give up the benefits and I can't it's like fast backwards it's 1976 the tenure the whole thing it's like are you listening are you listening to what's calling you inside I

said I would just let it go and U and she did she started her own company she's here she a lot of her products are here it's called Urban junket um and she has decided that you know we talked about this problem with plastic In our in our world you know out on the Pacific Ocean there's a there's a thousand miles it's bigger than the longer than the state of Texas across that is filled with nothing but plastic in the ocean and there's another one in the in the Atlantic Ocean a thousand miles across all

going down you know levels and it's from all of these these things here you know I usually protest these I don't use these at home um because we just fill these things up With water and then we just discard them and we put them into landfills or they end up in the ocean um we're just not as conscious as we need to be she said I can take plastic water bottles and recycle them and and make uh beautiful purses out of them which she has done not only that but purses that uh that have battery

bags inside of them so you can there's just so many things it's like I'm a big fan because she let let go of it and and really uh let go of she Did the exact same thing that I did when I gave up tenure and uh her purses are here in fact somebody Tracy gave me this somebody's just written a book called unlocking the closet door where are you Chelsea that's you and she that's so nice she says Dear Wayne a year ago you planted the seed of inspiration in my heart from which this book

was born now it is my gift to you and she handed me this beautiful gift uh this book that she published herself thank you so much And what I'd like to do is give give you a gift of one of my daughter's beautiful bags that are made of recycled plastic water bottles on the inside and that's for you enjoy it thank you Tracy stand up let people see you that's my girl you'll see her bags here over the weekend now as I wrote I can see clearly now I was read reading a book um called

to know we are loved which by the way is one of the most powerful things that you Can ever know it's just to know you are loved it's really truly amazing Rashad field he said if we stop for a moment it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives that motivators that have influenced us become much more obvious we are able to see life unfolding from both ends at once coming into the present moment but until we have got to a certain point of realization this is not possible because everything is still seen as

a series of Apparent causes and effects now when I read that it was it was before I even started I can see clearly now that's part of a Trilogy that Rashad field wrote about he's a Sufi let me read it again we stop for a a moment it's possible to perceive a pattern in our lives which I have done and I've seen the pattern from the time that I was listening to the secret garden to listening to Bishop Fulton Sheen to the Years that I was in the Navy to coming out of the Navy going

to work and putting myself through college on the GI Bill uh going all the way through to a PhD and all the books that I've written and so on I I I look back it's like in the first five books that I wrote youron ownes and pulling your own strings and the skies the limit and Gifts of mics and what you really want for your children there Were as I went through the indexes of these books as I was writing this there was one reference to the word god Spirit higher Consciousness one time in five

books then the next book that I wrote you'll see it when you believe it there were 39 references to God spirit and higher Consciousness and then the next book I wrote had it in the title there's a spiritual solution to every problem your sacred self real Magic now there was never a time in my life when I sat down and said okay now I've written about psychology and I've written about these kind of things now I'm going to make a shift and I'm going to talk about and I'm going to move into a into a

different realm in my life never didn't have happened that way what happened is that there is I we are able to see a pattern in our lives that life unfolds from both ends at once until we Have getting to a certain point of realization this isn't possible because we still everything is seen as a series of apparent causes and effects and this is the issue it's we have a tendency to believe that I did this and then this caused this and this caused this and this keeps us here at this ordinary level of Consciousness because

we're always in chronological time when you shift out of chronological time into vertical time Eternal time you Begin to see that time is uh is really something that doesn't even exist it's not what we measure here on our wrist it shifts around it's like even when I'm up here on a stage time I mean it's like I've been talking for an hour and 15 minutes and that's like five minutes to me three minutes to me um because there's a you time how do I explain this horizontal time is this this causes This causes this causes

this but here you are you're born and you're going to have you know the you have something in you called a future pull that you're not pulling things out of the past you're pulling things out of the future as well it's like the moment that you born your uh your wisdom teeth are there you can't feel them you feel inside the gums of a brand new baby you don't feel anything there but they're Not going to come out of the past you're pulling those things they're they're like 20 years into the future but they're there

and this is true of everything there's like this future pull and you're pulling things out of the future you're pulling things out of the past and then you begin to realize that there's something called Eternal time where everything is happening at once and there is no past there is no future it's just all one enormous Now because everything that's ever happened to you in your entire life didn't happen in the past it happened in the present it happened in the now and everything that's going to happen to you isn't going to happen to you in

the future it's going to happen to you in the present in the now and getting to that awareness that there is no past and that there is no future and that everything is just as you as You become aware of this it's like you can step back and you can get to a place that is called surrender and you have a recognition that there is um there's something personal in your life your human personality and there's something impersonal in your life that has nothing to do with your personality at all I have uh come in

contact with a Book called The impersonal life and it's one of those things that just one of those things that just comes into your life and it just changes your life around it's it happened to me with um with the I am discourses which I spoke about and why I wear the words I am on me because it's it's it's the name of God when Moses was talking to to God on the SI 1300 Years BC 800 years before Lau 1300 years before the birth of Christ and Moses is being being directed by this Burning

Bush that is not being consumed and it speaks to him and says you are to go free your people and Moses says who am I to go to the Pharaoh and free my people and this and God speaks to him and gives his name for the first time he says who who shall I say sent me and he said my name is I am that I am and that Shall be my name for all future Generations that's right out of the Torah right out of the book of Exodus chapter 3 15 every time you use

the words I am you're using the name of God and you have to be so careful not to desecrate the name of God not to blaspheme whenever you say I am weak you're saying God is is weak because the I am that is inside of you Is really God that's what wish is fulfilled is about it's this awareness that we carry God around inside of us each and every one of us and you know what this is really brutally honest time for me um I have been trying to get in touch with that impersonal self

inside of me and not listen so much to the human personality the Wayne Dyer that has this resume but to listen to it from a place of uh of just Divine love because when roomie said when we are born a ladder is placed before us to help us to escape from this world at the top of this ladder is something called Divine love and KL Jung once said that at the same moment he said at the same moment that you're a protagonist in your own Life and you're making choices he said you're also the spear

carrier or the extra in a much larger drama he said in essence you are all doomed to make choices now doesn't that sound like a paradox if I'm doomed I can't be making choices if I'm making choices I'm not doomed so let me shift it for you just think of your body and nothing else for a moment in a sense you're doomed I mean I'm I happen to get a 6'1 male blue-eyed Caucasian body with hair gone by growing in my ears and growing on my shoulders and growing in my nose and in essence I

am in essence I am doomed to live in this body I don't get to be in a female body I don't get to be in a in a in a black body I don't get to be in any other body other than the body that I'm in so I'm doomed but I also can make Choices and the choices that I can make are how am I going to treat this body how long is it going to live and in the life that it does live how healthy is it going to be I have many many

choices to make and I talked about my excitement and I talked about Tracy's excitement my excit at this point in my life is to do something about what is happening in our world particularly when we see so many of the changes that are taking place on Our planet we're seeing a huge obesity crisis on our planet you just have to look around if you don't go to Disney World and just watch I mean people are getting bigger and bigger and bigger in fact the casket industry the casket industry has really just blossomed you know because

they used to make caskets for you know people that never more than 200 people now they got to make 400b people to put into caskets now it's it doesn't you know I speak about it as if It were uh not something significant but I really believe our food supply is being tampered with in a way for profit that we really need to take a look at when we start genetically modifying our Foods in fact there's a my daughter emailed this to me the other day Monsanto has just released its first direct to consumer product so

no longer is Monsanto just a chemical company now they're a food company a genetically Modified sweet corn containing BT toxin designed to protect the plant by rupturing the stomachs of any insects that feeds on it Monsanto claims that the toxin will break down before before the corn makes it to your dinner table but rats fed the GM genetically modified corn showed organ failure and the toxin has been detected in the bodies of pregnant women you know it's not like I don't I'm saying that genetically modified food is Good or bad I have my own opinion

about it but I think I have the right to know whether that's something that I'm consuming or not I mean it's just such a simple thing and yet the food industry is pouring millions of dollars into campaigns to convince people that this is something that isn't going to be a problem and so on um I was up in Halifax last June a year it' be a year ago this month somebody's from Halifax and I met two people um that I hadn't seen in um in about a year and a half and I looked at this

couple an and Mark and I kept saying to them I can't I I just can't get over how great you look you look younger um Mark You've Lost Your Gut here you've uh you you guys just look fantastic what's going on what did you both do and they said well we brought this fellow up here to Halifax and in Canada and took him on a Tour um and his name is Bill Davis he's a medical doctor he's a cardiologist in Milwaukee and he's written a book called wheat belly and he said we did a conference

on it and we just decided to uh no longer eat U wheat because it's all been genetically modified um and um and so many changes took place in this and I said well I want to get a hold of that so I read Wheat Belly called to told all my children told my wife and um and I decided that I was going to go Gluten-free [Music] yeah now some people think well this is just a new fad and so on but I don't think it's a fad at all any longer when I read Wheat Belly

I was uh I was so taken by it that it hit me in this place in here and what the thing I learned from the impersonal life is that every desire that we have see we get many ideas they coming at us all the time all these thoughts Coming into our mind thought thought thought thought thought and then a thought sometime will come in to us that is attached with a desire and when that desire is strong and you can't ignore it and it's something that you have to do that isn't your personal life that

isn't your human life that's doing this that is the same intelligence that opens the rose that is the same intelligence that keeps the planet in alignment that is The so same intelligence that grows your fingernails every single night you go to bed and you say all right I'm not going to grow these fingertips I'm tired of having to cut them all the time I'm going to stop this and you have absolutely no decision your human self can't do anything about it there is an intelligence that grows your fingernails for some of you it grows your

hair for Danny and I it doesn't but that's all right it's Uh it's like understanding this uh this intelligence that's in in every single one of us and every desire that we have so that when I have a desire like my my desire to sit down and write I Can See Clearly Now isn't something that that my human self decided on I woke up on the 27th of June and it was just overwhelming and when you surrender to it and when you start to listen to it and you allow it to be the focus of

your Life it's just amazing the things that begin to happen for you and what I did with the gluten-free thing is I I looked at that and I decided um we share the same genetic the same genes seven of our human genes are identical with wheat seven of them 11 of them are with bananas you know like there's 11 jeans in a banana that are the same in a human being but there's seven that are in wheat and wheat when we were growing up it was amber waves of grain remember you Know it's like now

wheat isn't produced like that it's dwarf wheat it's it's grazed on something called calories per acre how much profit is in it and it's been genetically modified so that the next generation of seeds for the wheat isn't something that's going to create the Next Generation like the like God intended everything to be every single organism on the planets the seed from this generation produces the Next Generation and the next and the next It's been going on as for eternity until monsano has come along and companies like this and now they have patents patents on these

seeds all of which have been approved um in in Washington in 1970 there were 175 lobbyists 175 paid lobbyists to influence legislation today there are 13,750 paid lobbyists who are there there's one lobbyist for every single congressman from the food industry from the drug industry and so on and things Like patenting a seed that you get to own the seed and the gener Next Generation has been stopped from reproducing it so if you plant it in the ground it won't grow you have to go to monsano to do it anyway I could this could become

a rant all right and but I'm very very um passionate about this and it's a desire that's just been placed in me thank you so since going gluten-free I have taken off all of whatever is Around the Wheat Belly because if you take two slices of whole wheat bread just two slices it's the same identical thing in your body as taking six tablespoons of pure caned sugar and eating it two slices of whole wheat bread six tablespoons of sugar check it out so we've been sold a bill of goods on healthy grains and all of

this kind of stuff that we're pouring into our bodies and you know my own mom who passed away Um it'll be two years now July the 22nd and in her last couple of years she was 96 years old um she kept saying Wayne I don't she said I exercise you know and she did she walked all the time and she exercised and she said and I hardly eat anything but every day uh I said well what do you eat mom and she said well I have a bowl of cereal in the morning with whatever it

is was all wheat and I have a sandwich of whole wheat in the afternoon and she said and It just keeps expanding and expand how many people have said this to me I exercise I eat I don't overeat I'm very careful but I'm always bloated and and I can't lose the weight I can't lose the weight we got a whole culture of people we got one out of three people who are obese in our country one out of three that's a major shift there we have one out of three people by the year 2040 the

year I turn 100 who are going to uh who are going to have diabetes in our Country that's it's it's an epidemic in 1972 one out of every 15,000 births had signs of autism today it's one out of every 68 eight birds in one generation what is going on if we don't have a to me it's like duh which is what my kids all say duh have you looked at the food supply have you looked at what we're eating so next when I get leave here uh today I go back to Maui and then I'm

going to Baltimore and week I'm in in Baltimore on the 18th of June uh I called Bill Davis who uh is responsible for me going on a gluten-free uh uh not only gluten-free but become very very conscious of of uh of eating organically and eating really healthy things it's changed everything in my life um we're doing a public television special together I called him up and told him how yeah that's my rant all Right there's there's three kinds of there's three kinds of love according to Peter dunoff who was a great Bulgarian spiritual master who

died in 1944 um who is who speaks to me on a spiritual level on a regular basis who's written over 250 books on uh on on Divine love on a very special kind of love and he uh he said that there's um as we as we move up this this this ladder towards divine div love which is Where we get to extraordinary where we begin to perform Miracles that we never thought were possible where we begin to heal ourselves and heal others where begin to make conscious shifts in our world um we move up the

ladder I I always say that I can see clearly now is the story of a man who has listened to um the internal callings and have been willing to do it I like what are you willing to do that's the bottom Rong of the ladder what are you willing to do You get this calling you know you're here for a reason there's something that calls you to um to fulfill your own Dharma to fulfill your own destiny and youve spent so much of your time being consumed with what other people think and how well you

know they're doing it and and should I should I go this way or that way what's everybody else going to think or it's going to be too expensive or I can't afford it or things aren't going to uh you know things aren't going To fall in line for me it's not as easy as you say and so on you have to have a willingness in inside of you that's the that's the Bottom Rung on the ladder how willing are you you know when it when the time came for me to leave the academic world and

to leave a tenure position as a full Professor behind um I was told over and over again that the only way you can get your message Out is to get on National Television but nobody on National Television wanted to hear from me but there's another way to reach everybody in the country are you willing to do it 1976 I packed my my 9-year-old daughter uh and her girlfriend Robin and my wife and we went across the country to meet every single person thorough once said that if you advance confidently in the direction of your own

dreams that's what's in your imagination if you advance confidently In your own dreams and Endeavor to live the life which you have imagined have you imagined it you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours it will chase you you got to stop chasing it and just listen to your dreams listen to what's in your imagination because the greatest gift that any of us have ever been given is the gift of our imagination it is there that we can create virtually anything that we place our attention On but we don't do that we ignore

it we say instantly no I'm not willing to do that no that would that that would be too t I can't move to another city I can't and instantly you move back into ordinary into just being a fringe dweller just sort of dwell in On The Fringe of higher Consciousness but never being able to go to take the step you have to not only be willing this but you have to have a sense of determination as you read I can see clearly now you will See a profound sense of determination inside of me something that

just I just couldn't turn it off you also have to have a sense of fearlessness letting go you know letting go in the in the recovery Movement we say you let go and what you let God you know whatever you want to call that Divine invisible intelligence that opens the rose whatever you want to call that it doesn't matter you can call it the da I live for a year as a doist in the Year 2005 the year I turned 65 I gave up everything that I owned gave up all my clothes I gave up

all my my all my possessions I gave up all my furniture all the things that I accumulated all the records that I had all the awards that I had been given because I heard one time someone say you when you talk about awards that awards are like hemorrhoids you know that sooner or later every gets one you know So I had plenty of awards I gave them all away and I went off to Maui and I lived as a doist I practice this if there's anything that I encourage you to get it's this little book

called living the wisdom of the da it's the da to Ching it was 81 verses written 2,500 years ago 500 years before the birth of Christ Lau gave this gave us this great wisdom and the opening line of The Da says the da that can be Named is not the Dow as soon as you try to put a name on it as soon as you try to explain it you've lost it because you've left the world of Oneness which is perfect love which is what God God is which is what's inside each and every one

of us we all have God inside of us we all carry it around we're all Sparks of God the minute that you try to label it you've got the thing and you've got the label now you've got Tunas one of The I love this this is from the gospel of St Thomas which was discovered in nag hamadi in 1945 in the Dead Sea [Music] Scrolls you know the Matthew Mark Luke and John all lived like between 80 and 120 years after the birth of Christ so all of their direct quotations were Recollections from 80 to

120 years before the gospel of St Thomas discovered in the in nagadi was carbon dated back to the Exact time that Jesus was walking on this planet that's 80 years before Matthew he said when you make the two one and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below and when you make the male and the female into a single one so that the male will not be male and the female not be female then you shall enter the kingdom it's like trying to imagine

you Know if I say to you what's the opposite of uh of of joy you would say sadness right we all you know but imagine a world in which there is no opposite a world in which my friend I'm staring at right now Anita morani who was uh who experienced all of this firsthand and you'll hear from her this afternoon um she's one of my heroes I sought her out uh yeah she's written a book called uh he come on up for a Moment uh Anita just for a second Anita has written a book called

dying to be me and um she had terminal cancer like really terminal cancer she had like minutes left and uh do you have a mic do you have a mic is there a mic oh I'm GNA need a mic SK oh Skyy yeah hi sweetheart how are you my love tell them just a little bit about what I'm talking about with this Oneness idea that uh there is a world Beyond This world in which um in which there's no opposite of love which is just nothing but pure love when we think of love and its

opposite we think of hate and revenge and fear but she experienced um in dying to be me which is just mandatory reading I mean it's an assignment okay you have to read dying to be me it's one of the greatest books that I've as a matter of fact I just had a very very dear friend who lost a little baby um through an accident and I Didn't know what to say to her uh it was just uh the mother and the father both came to my apartment on Maui uh and just in deep sadness uh

I had just met this little she's only 14 months old and the only thing I could say to them is like just read just read this read this this this will give you some peace and I just talked to them last night and they said it brought them so much peace just an awareness that there's something so Grand and Beautiful on this other side What about Oneness Anita um what I experience on the other side actually what happened is on February the 2 can you hear can you all hear the mic on um on February

the 2nd 2006 That was supposed to be my last day here in the physical body because I was dying of endstage cancer my organs had shut down and I was in a coma and the doctors told my family that I wasn't going to come out of the coma um but I what I experienced while I was in the Coma was I was feeling amazing and I was free from my body I was no longer in my body I could see my body on the bed and I'll describe more when I speak about it this afternoon

your body weight what what did what was your body weight down to about 80 something 85 lbs and I was a skeleton I was literally a skeleton but my lungs were filled with fluid and I I hadn't been able to walk I was breathing with the aid of oxygen and then my organs shut down and I went into a Coma and um uh but it appeared that I was in a coma but I was actually aware of everything that was going on around me and how I experienced myself well first of all I felt that

I was loved I knew I was loved unconditionally they was this feeling as though I was just embraced or encompassed by love it was nothing like what I had ever felt in physical life ever before it was just um like you describe a love that has no opposite and The way I describe it is that I was aware that I was without my body but what I learned in that realm is that when I'm without my body body I'm also without my gender my culture My Religion I'm without my race my color and I'm also

without all the beliefs and the cultural filters that I've accumulated and the layers of beliefs and filters that I've accumulated over a lifetime all of it falls away with the body and the only thing that's left is Just pure Essence and that that pure Essence is pure God or it's pure love we can give it any name we want but it's just pure Essence pure love and it's who we are each and every single one of us it's who we are at our core if we didn't have all these layers and layers so beautiful thank

you she's going to be speaking this afternoon at what time at 4:40 this afternoon thank you my love thanks for coming with God bless I love you so much thank You yeah when I uh in fact I'm going to be talking in a moment about desire but I want to tell everyone you know when you get your new purse stick this in it all right how's that Tracy some call it the wisest book ever written um 81 verses I wrote 81 essays on it and lived it for an entire year um but it's it's something

that I refer to every day I have it in my glove box and I open it up and I just uh always get a Lesson from it living the wisdom of The Da very profound teaching and thank you Anita and she you know you probably saw her on my public television special uh a desire was placed inside of me and this is what I want to talk about in a few moments it's this whole the difference between an idea or a thought that you have even even your thoughts are not things that your human personality

are capable of doing you can't create a thought we Think that we create all of our thoughts but try to get one try to find out what it is try to go inside we can find the command center inside of the brain where thoughts originate we can find all of that but we can never ever no matter how scientifically pure our technology is we can never find the Commander in the command center that says I think I'd like to wiggle my finger I think I'd like to move my hand I think I'd like to do

this every think about this think on This strongly because this is where I am at in my life right now every desire that you have is placed there by your impersonal self the same one that opens the Roses the same thing that grows your fingernails and when those desires are so strong that you can't resist them that you can't stop thinking about them that they're just hanging on they're there with you whatever they are that's the impersonal part of you Speaking when I first became acquainted with Anita's work through the uh through something that was

posted on the internet that someone sent me I couldn't stop thinking about it I called my publisher I said we have to find this person because her name wasn't even on it it it just said Anita M so I didn't even know her last name but I sought her out and she will tell you that there were so many synchronistic kinds of things that were Taking place to bring us together I called the publisher and said I want to publish her book and I want to write the forward to it and I want to introduce

her to America I want to put her on my public television special this is before she even uh had any idea that I was so aware and so conscious of these things that showed up in my life it's like everything and I can see clearly now as you look back on it you see so clearly Oh my God this is this is what was pushing me at this time but you know what the now is the same as all of those other times there's something talking to every single one of you whatever those desires are

and it manifested in now and everything that I had told you Anita about what would happen your book would be on the New York Times best sist you'd be lecturing all over the world it would be published in many different languages you'll be you you'll become a worldwide From because there was a desire placed inside of you and there was a desire placed inside of me that has nothing I could do anything about I couldn't stop it and that desire is so powerful and I want to speak more on it in a few moments but

before that I want to bring us to the top of the ladder willingness determination these are the these are the core things that have occupied my entire life um I had a quote I saw it this I saw it this morning for the first Time I was up early this morning meditating about what I wanted to speak about today and I was reading thorough because I've been asked to do a film about thorough to be in a movie about W called Walden Pond uh about my hero from conquered Massachusetts on the 4th of July in

1845 he opened a cabin on Walden Pond and lived there for two years I tell a story in there about how thorough when I was 15 years old and being kicked out of high school um because I was Practicing Civil Disobedience and then I read an essay by Henry David thorough called on the necessity of Civil Disobedience and I thought as I presented that to the principal that I would be uh because they had actually left that book on there for me to read while I was waiting I took it in and showed them I

said this is what I was doing they said it doesn't work and they still expelled me he said I want to live deep And I want to suck out all the marrow of life and not when I come to die and discover that I have not lived I love that I want to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life not when I come to die and discover that I have not lived I read a book by a a woman in Australia named bronny wear called the five regrets of the dying she

was a hospice nurse and she would interview and talk to People for eight years she took kept notes on what are your top regrets what do you regret talking to people that died and the number one regret of dying people is I wish that I would have had the courage to live the life that I knew I should rather than following somebody else's ideas the number one regret and we all we're all facing that awareness that that reality that we're going to leave these bodies Anita had the incredible blessing To be the only person perhaps

in all of humanity who has ever been at that far gone and stage of cancer and even lived let alone five weeks after she came out of the coma they couldn't even find any cancer in her body in five weeks and in five days it had all gone 50% of it had disappeared all of her medical records are are are in there to to validate I've seen the photographs and yet she came back there was a desire placed in her not by her human Self but by this Oneness it's like when you're living with the

source there are no opposites if you lived on the sun if you had a house on the Sun be a little warm but if you did would you have a concept of Darkness would anybody ever be talking on the sun about Darkness why not because when you're with the source there are no opposites there's only Oneness and the Sun is the source of all Light on our planet and when you are with the source there are no opposites but beyond the sun is God or the da or the grand mind the Divine mind and when

you are with the source there is only love that's what I got out of reading uh dying to be me that it was just nothing but pure love no opposites she saw her father there who was filled with resentment and anger because she had left an arranged marriage in India uh three days before the wedding and Indian Weddings if you ever seen Indian weddings they go for weeks and she left it all and she thought when she saw her father and she said all she saw with her father was pure love you don't have to

die you don't have to leave this body in order to understand and know this thing called Pure Love at the top of this ladder is this Divine love and D dunoff said there are Three kinds of love there's human love human love is a love that changes and varies I love you today not so much as yesterday I love you more I love you less you didn't do this you passed that I love my love changes it varies and then there's spiritual love which is a love that never changes it's like the love we have

for our children it's the love that we have for you know our partners whatever it's a love that doesn't change but it varies you know It's not quite as high as it was yesterday when you didn't bring me anything for my birthday or when you you know and if you have eight kids you know you love them but there are times when it's higher than when it's and so on but dunov spoke about another kind of love it's called Divine love and this is a love that never changes and a love that never varies it's

all there is and when you're with the source when you come to know the source and my beautiful Daughter this is this is the very first time this book has ever been out I just saw it for the first time yesterday when I signed some of them here it's called don't die with your music Still In you my daughter Serena the same one who was told why are you wearing that bra and it's called my experience growing up with spiritual parents it's like she took those 10 secrets for success and inner peace that I wrote

about because those were the 10 ideas Most important ideas that I wanted my children as my legacy to know and live from I think she really wanted to subtitled this my experience growing up with weird parents because uh you know she said that um in our home there was a a felet word that begins with B that no one was ever allowed to say and it doesn't rhyme with witch it's called blame we are never allowed to blame anyone for anything going on in ourself that was a word that Just wasn't allowed in our house

she wrote about all of the experiences that she had but one of the things that she wrote she wrote me a letter and she put it in the introduction from Serena and I want to share this letter with you it says today I sat behind you in Ephesus Turkey I went uh to turkey with her and another group of 300 people um on a tour of the Mediterranean a spiritual tour of the Mediterranean and uh we went to the The place where the mother of Jesus lived for the last 30 years of her life last

34 years of her life and um I was giving a talk there on on the 85th uh anniversary of room's birth September the 30th 2012 she said today I sat behind you in Ephesus Turkey while you gave a lecture to a few hundred people who had traveled from all over the world to hear you speak I was overcome with emotion as I saw you standing there fulfilling your Dharma while touching the lives of so many I know you as my father but you have always been a teacher to me as well you have taught me

that the solution to all of life's problems are inside of me and that I only had to go within be silent and present and know that all is well you never told me how to live or what to think or what to believe in instead you showed me how to make each Step a prayer and each word a word of love you taught me about roomi St Francis Hafiz Jesus Buddha Krishna Muhammad St gerain Neville and so many others you taught me to believe in magic and miracles and you showed me how to be in

awe of the awesome world we live in since the time I was brought into this world I knew that I was safe to be exactly as I was and that whoever I was that I was a perfect creation of God you Told me that I was God and that it was God that looked out from behind my eyes I learned from you that I was the master of my own faith the creator of my destiny of all the lesson of all the lessons I have learned the thing that hit me the hardest was when you

said that I am God could I really be a spark of God a perfect creation put here on Earth with a purpose you say this all the time but I've always struggled with it especially since school and Society Were telling me otherwise I doubted myself I felt inferior and I worried that I needed to apologize to something for even contemplating this idea I have felt unworthy undeserving and unsure although you gave me great tools I still had to figure out how to use them on my own now I understand that God is love that God

is Beauty and that God is true Truth you told me I came from an infinite space of perfection and that I will return to it one day slowly I'm beginning to understand people love you so much and yet to me you've always been dad you drove me to school each morning you taught me how to swim and to ride a bike you read me stories and you came to all my plays as I have grown you have Encouraged me to trust my inner callings and to go after whatever it is is that excites me you

believe in me Dad and I love you so much for that what do you say to someone who gave you life and then showed you how to live it you say thank you thank you thank you I love you Serena now I have a friend who's here today and he's uh where are you Alex oh there it is Um and he's got a specialty he's he's a musician a very accomplished musician and he takes letters that people have written and he writes songs based on the letter it's called for the sender he's a brilliant writer

I say it that as an endorsement for his book this is a beautifully written book with powerful message I read it in one sitting and absolutely loved it here's a sample of his writing he said me and the leaves are Barely hanging on when I get this letter Autumn is painting change everywhere and I am turning over a season of my own although the trees are doing a better job of Letting Go than I am leaves and dreams alike are either dying on the limb are already gone and so is she it was a letter

a painful letter that he received he's a beautiful writer as you can tell just from that one paragraph and when I showed him that letter when Serena showed him that letter that she Had written to me he said why don't I write a song called it and he did and I've asked him to come up here and sing it for you or play it for you and asked my daughter Sky who is just written who's just published just like the Wayne Dyer show here today and Wayne Dyer family her brand new CD called Letting Go

which has this song in it and by the way Serena is getting married on The 1st of July and um in Maui and I am going to perform the wedding ceremony just as I did for sky and her husband and as I did for Ellen degenerous and Porsche three weddings um and the song is called this gift and it's a gift based upon the letter that I just read to you if you'll come up sky and Alex um and this song is going to be sung it's going to be the song I guess there's a

time in the weddings I don't Do weddings very often uh but the father dances with the daughter uh well this is the song that Serena has selected where do you want me I want to come play it I know nobody so this is Alex he's going to be actually uh performing and you you'll want to come to both him and is it today yeah 5:30 5:30 and you're what time Anita 440 4:40 well this afternoon is going to be fabulous this all Standing Ovation places I promise you and this is My beautiful daughter Sky who's

uh going to sing this song and then she's going to come back and close at the end so let me get comfortable here there we go there you go all right all right thank you I don't need your help smarty pants all right you ready okay get your together as my kids say come on dad you can do it you see inside each and every one of us There's something called The Soul it doesn't really matter what you call it it's like the Dow as soon as you put a name on it it's not the

same but this soul of ours this invisibl this uh infinite intelligence that we're always connected to that is doing all of these things called Aging your body growing your fingernails and all of the things that it is doing independent of your opinion about it there's also something Inside of you that is uh is not finite body is finite all your possession are finite everything up here on this stage is finite that means it had a beginning it means it ends someplace but inside of us there's something that is the opposite of finite which is infinite

or Infinite and it has no beginning and because it has no beginning it has no end Emily Dickinson the great poet said that uh this quiet dust holding up a handful of dust the beautiful Emily Dickinson if you haven't seen the film uh the bell of Amherst watch it by Julie Harris it's one of I I ordered it the day Julie Harris died about six months ago she was in her 80s the bell of Amherst and I watched it in my own uh all alone in my home in Maui and when it was over the

whole audience gave her a standing ovation because it's a film of a Broadway play and I stood up with the audience I was just compelled I applauded for at least 10 minutes I was so incredibly moved and touched by Julie Harris's performance I Just couldn't imagine that someone could know that and become that character so beautifully Emily Dickinson was a great poet she said this quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies and Lads and girls was laughter and ability and sighing and frocks and curls this passive place a summers's Nimble Mansion where Bloom and Bees fulfilled

their Oriental circuit then ceased like these when my mom passed away they gave us an ear that she was cremated and they gave us an N of her ashes was dust and I looked at my two brothers and I said surely this isn't this isn't mother this isn't the woman who had to struggle the way she struggled and deal with the things that she had to deal with in her life this beautiful soul You know Long Fellow said that life is real life is earnest and the grave is not its goal dust Thou Art to

dust returnthe keep growing it has to be it just continues to grow I wrote these words out about the soul the ideal of the soul the thing it ask for is neither knowledge or light or happiness the ideal of the soul is space immensity the one thing it needs is to be free to expand and to reach out to Embrace the infinite yeah the ideal of the soul is infinity it's miserable when it's circumscribed and restricted into in any way that's what's going on inside of you it has a theme song it was sung by

Roy Rogers and Gan atry and B Crosby you all know it it's the theme song of the Soul oh give me land lots of land and the starry skies [Music] Above let me ride through the Wide Open Spaces that I love don't me in Don't Fence Me In in you know I before I had any children I had eight theories about how to raise children I even wrote about them all right then I had eight children and I have no theories about how to raise children but one of the things I know for sure about

raising eight children is that nobody likes being told what to Do that little voice that you've all heard that says you're not the boss of me you can't tell me what to do I'm My Own Boss I can think for myself that's not that's not the bratty uh Outburst of a spoiled child that's someone who's saying I have a soul I don't want to be fenced in don't put me in a box don't don't make my life what yours wasn't don't tell me what I should be or can't be it's it's the infinite within each

and every one of us that's the Soul and every single one of us has it and none of us wants to be put into a box and all we want to do do is continue to grow and one of the things I can tell you at this age of 74 is that it's just operating in me as full-time as it possibly could be I have uh I am in a constant state of growing now in almost an elevated state of growing just really moving and things are coming to me so rapidly like this book The

impersonal Life and another book you know Maya anelu passed away this uh past week or so and I put on my Facebook page my experience with Maya anelu back in uh back in the 1970s we were on a radio show the Owen span show in kjo in San Francisco and a caller called in and said something that she was all upset because she wasn't getting the attention that she wanted and she said uh I never forgot it cuz she said um you know the bird doesn't sing because an a because It has an answer it

sing be it sings because it has a song you know and I encourage everybody honor Maya anelu by singing your song and while you're singing make it a love song because that's what she was about you know her biography I know why the Cage Bird Sings because it has a song not because it's demanding an answer there are no answers but we all have songs that we have to sing and we Don't want to as Serena said die with our music is still inside of us so as you listen to your soul as you listen

to this invisible part of you as the impersonal life came to me this book was written in 1914 a 100 years ago and it was published under the name Anonymous until 1940 which is the year that I was born and what it is Is speaking to you as if the impersonal part of you the part that opens the flowers and grows the oranges as if it were speaking to you and talking to you this impersonal part of you that's in every single one of us and all of the Creations in the universe in this infinite

universe that has no beginnings and has no ends we're beginning to get scientific validation Of this infiniteness of the universe that and when you just think about it logically where could it end I mean what's at the end is there a uh is there a wall and how thick is it and what's on the other side the concept of infinity is a very difficult con concept for us to get it's why the concept of death is so difficult for us and why when I was talking To my friends who lost their little 14-month-old girl through

an accident um we can't grasp this idea that uh that Abraham said I had a conversation with Abraham a three-hour conversation that's coming out soon and it was uh she said that if if you really understood what was on the other side for you which is what Anita gives us a glimpse of is that it is so so incredibly Blissful and perfect and There is just no opposite there and to come to know that but I have been trying to get a hold of this impersonal self and to to get a sense of it to

feel it in my own heart and what it involves it involves changing certain things about oursel like the day that Serena sat behind me in Ephesus while I spoke to these people at the home of the mother of Jesus which was a significant moment in My life to be there in this place and to be giving a talk on roomie we stopped at the uh there were there were 10 buses 35 people there's 350 people 10 buses of 35 people and we pulled into this area it was the end of September um very hot very

desert-like in this city that is being excavated an ancient city that was at the time of Jesus and before um 15% of it has only been Excavated uh so it's still 85% underground just to walk among those streets and all of that and and then to see this home where when Jesus was about to be crucified uh he said to John please take care of my mother and this according to all the historical documents that they have this is the this is the place in this home in this Stone House in Ephesus and we all

stopped for a Bathroom break and we went into the men all went into this gigantic Ural and the women all went and got lined up in this other place and they were all big line of women and the men were just going in and out um seems to be how it works and so I walked I went into this place and I uh I was leaving and I washed my hands and there was an old man in there probably younger than me but he Was an old man I was going to say 67 68 but

you know that's like younger than me uh and he had a a roll of a of uh paper uh like paper towels kind of thing and he was tearing them off and he was very dirty and the place you can imagine what it it's in that it's in turkey at the end of summer the temperature outside is about 90 some degrees you can imagine I just try to take a whiff of what you think it would be like in this place and This man was in there all day and he would hand PE people these

these pieces of paper and the old subconscious mind training see we all have this subconscious mind um and the subconscious mind is uh is operating over time all the time it's the stuff that made us believe that God is something that's outside of us and the idea that God is within us even though all the spiritual literature including the the Old Testament and the New Testament is it not written in your laws that I have said you are Gods you know you are all children of the most high you are all gods that's from Psalms

that's from The Book of John those are the words of Jesus and there's many many others but we still have come to this conclusion that God is something external to ourselves so our subconscious mind has all of this all this conditioning that we have to overcome and you can do that you can Even do it tonight as you you get go off to sleep the last 5 minutes before you go off to sleep you know uh listen to what uh what it says in the Book of Job in a dream in a vision of the

night when deep sleep falls upon men while slumbering on their beds then he opens the ears of men and seals their instructions I read that too fast in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon Men while slumbering on their beds then he opens the ears of men and seals their instructions that's from wishes fulfilled that's from The Book of Job so that when you're about to go off to sleep you're going to enter into your subconscious mind and marinate there for the next eight hours so whatever it is that

you program yourself for as you go off to sleep you're going to begin to manifest when you awaken into this Reality so you don't want to review all the things that you don't like and all the things that aren't working and all the stuff that upsets you and all the stuff that you're mad at and all the people that you resent and all the facts of your life that are not the way you think that they should be you don't want to be doing that unless you want more of that to manifest and show up

in your life because when you awaken the Divine mind which can't make a distinction Between what you think and what your reality is if your thoughts are on my life is really bad terrible the uncon your subconscious mind saying this over and over again the universal subconscious mind God says so that's what you want and here's some more of it and you'll continue to attract more and more and more of it what you have to do is assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and the last five minutes especially before you go off to sleep

t Tonight put into your Consciousness I am well I am health I am perfect health I am healing I am content I am wealthy I am positive I am love I am God even if you don't believe it over and over again use these words I am the words that God spoke to Moses my name is I am and that shall be my name for all future Generations and as you marinate in that when you awaken you will begin to attract more of what you have placed into your Subconscious mind that's why Serena said in

here the word blame is just not a word that we use we are responsible for what we attract into our lives and through our thoughts and our desires we can create them so there I was back in Turkey so that's your assignment for tonight by the way let just the last five minutes before you go off to sleep begin to practice I am living as if what you would like to attract is already an Accomplished fact in fact the other quote from the book of Romans says in the presence of him whom he believed God

who gives life to the dead and hear these words and calls those things which do not exist as though they did you have to call those things which do not yet exist in your physical sense as though they did you live from that place that's how I healed myself of leukemia it's gone it's out of my life it's no part of my life [Music] whatsoever so there I was in turkey and this man was about to hand me a dirty piece of paper in this smelly Place hot place and my subconscious mind training which I

had from was immediately came to I pulled back this guy's dirty everybody's looking for a handout even in Turkey for God's sake you know somebody wants a tip from and that kind of stuff that's been programmed into my Subconscious thinking which I'm not proud of but in order to change it in order to shift it you have to you have to first of all become aware of it so I walked out and I was on my way to give a lecture which was being filmed there's a whole big crowd there and it's and cameras everywhere

and here I am the spiritual Master who's about to give a talk at the home of the mother of Jesus for God's sake and inside I'm Angry and going with this judgmental stuff and I stop because this is how you change your subconscious mind from first you become aware of the thought and then you begin to do something about the thought and then you become aware of your behavior and the most important thing is you change your behavior in the sub in the recovery Movement we call it making amends you make amends you change your

behavior as well as become conscious of The thought and I turned around and I went back to the Ural and I saw this man there who didn't speak any English and he was I reached into my pocket and I had a 20 note in my pocket that's about $30 that's all the cash that I had on me and I came over to him and I embraced him I put my arms around him and I put the 20 note into his hand and I said thank you Thank you now and I walked away and I went

and gave the talk and I corrected it so now what I did is I did a correction a course correction in my subconscious mind training and that's how you have to do it now this is what I wanted to tell you as I'm reading the impersonal life I'm asking the question over and over again how do I find it see I'm going to write about this this is I'm already writing another book in fact I'm writing Two books because I'm fulfilling a Dharma a desire it's why I'm here I live on Maui you guys all

want to get to Maui I leave Maui to come here and I you know people think well you must be because because of how much money you makeing 100% of what I earn I give away 100% either to the government all right it takes about half all or I have eight children who help me out with that On a regular basis but it trust me it has nothing to do with money it has to do with this desire that gets placed into our hearts that we can't stop it's what puts me on a plane that's

what flies me overnight and and turn around and fly back so that I can get back to the writing because it's a desire that my human self has nothing to do with and I'm asking the question question over and over Again how do I find it now the there's 18 chapters in the impersonal life that was written by Joseph s Benner because when he passed away in 1940 his wife he was a Lutheran Minister from akan Ohio and his wife wanted the world to know who this man was and uh and it does it doesn't

it's not consistent with so much of what the Lutheran Church teaches so that's why he published it as imper as uh uh anonymous but then it's the book by the way that Elvis Presley lived with when he died he had it with him he said it's the only book that ever spoke to him and I want to write well I know what I'm going to do I don't know yet what I'm going to do with it because I'm just listening and surrendering but the 17th chapter there's 18 chapters in this isn't that interesting 18 one

Infinite Source 18 there are 18 chapters in the Bhagavad Gita one Infinite Source there are 81 verses in the da Ching Infinite Source once the number 18 in uh in Hebrew is what anybody H life life the number 18 it's a very spiritual number so I'm it's a Friday morning and I have a series of uh of things that I have to do on Friday one of them is is to go to the bank and um my kids are coming so they like cash uh so I have to get some cash I have to cash

some checks I have to you know make Some deposits things like this and um and there's a girl at the bank her name is Cheyenne and she has um I've had this little thing going with her for two years she has three children that are under the age of four just like my mother did uh her husband is is has diabetes he's very very sick um and so I always go to her window now I've never said anything to her about this at all but always I've seen her with her children at different Places on

Maui and so on and I know what's going on and I she's a teller supporting a family with a husband who can't work at this time so every time after I do all the transactions I take a a couple of $100 bills and I placed them under her little computer thing there and uh and I've been doing it for a couple of years I just you know and she because I know the thing is being filmed and I'm not sure if what I'm doing is legal or illegal I'm not doing anything wrong but I mean

it's like there's cameras everywhere and I don't want to get her into trouble and um but um so it's 9:00 in the morning and uh she goes to lunch different times starting about quter to uh 11 anytime between 11: and 1 she goes to lunch and I am thinking about going to the bank but I want to make sure that I get there in time to be able to see Cheyenne so that I can put these put this money under there because I just feel after a Couple of years she's probably become accustomed to it

and it's just you know something that she needs and uh but we've never talked about it we've never I've never said I'm giving you money it's it's not about me any of this okay and I'm only telling you this for a very important reason not to make myself look good or anything but to just to uh illustrate that I how do you connect how do you how do you communicate with this higher self with this uh impersonal self This thing that is doing all of this stuff that is making your body do what is going

through and opening the flowers and so on how do you find it and I had such a compelling thing and then I put it down I said well I'll go maybe I'll go after lunch but then she might what if she's not there what if she's on her break I don't know I know she'll be there between 9 and 10 and then I stop and I said no I've got a other things I want to do I'm doing these crazy coffee Animas I don't even want to get into that but it's and I'm doing this

whole Gerson Therapy which is a phenomenal thing and um going to start a new franchise called Starbucks you know it's a yeah rear entry only no front doors just an idea I have I'm just working on it you know nothing says morning like folders in your butt you know in your cup my kids laugh at me they think it's all but I feel great every time I do One and I recommend you look at the Gerson Therapy by the way it's a very powerful tool for overcoming cancers and so anyway just just a side thing

on it so I'm but I've got this compelling desire to go to the bank at a certain at this time not because of anything with me but to make sure that I I get to see Cheyenne and and and give her this extra money that she I'm sure uses so I finally just say ah the hell with it I I couldn't I couldn't I couldn't Resist I got it like went downstairs I got in the uh got in the car and went over to the bank and got it all done so that I made sure

and she was there and sure enough I went there and then there's another lady at the dry cleaner that I always stop to her name is uh uh Elsie and um she's about 4 foot 10 and maybe 300 lb and she works in a dry cleaning plant where it's can you imagine how hot it is and sweaty in there and I always go in there and give Her about $100 sometimes more and I always put my arm around it because I don't think anybody ever does um and then I went back and I picked up

and I was reading the 17th chapter which is called Finding Me and this is what it said the best and the shest way you may know me me Capital me me is your highest self your impersonal self speaking speaking to you all the time every desire you Have is placed there by it the best and the shest way you may know me is when Selfless Love fills your heart and there is a strong compelling urge to help someone to heal their ills to relieve their suffering to bring them happiness to point out the true way

that is the actual feel of me within you pushing the personality aside using your mind and body for the purpose purp I created them as avenues for the expression of my real nature which is perfect love the Christ of God the one vitalizing quickening lifegiving strengthening healing all supplying all informing power in the universe if you will but turn to me and will carefully watch for and study these Impressions which you are receiving every moment and will learn to trust them and thus to wait upon and rest in me putting all your faith in me

I will guide you in all your ways I will solve for you all your problems I will make Easy all your work and you will be led among Green Pastures beside the Still Waters in life I here promise you that you will not only soon very soon find me but I will be to you an exhaustless Fountain of such wisdom and strength and help as your human mind now cannot possibly conceive if you will devote but one hour each day to me alone imagining and practicing the presence of me within you if you will but

seek me thus making me first in your life never resting Until you do find me it will not be long before you will become conscious of my presence of my loving voice speaking constantly from out of the depths of your heart when you have a compelling urge to help someone when you suspend your ego when I flew from Maui to here I flew to Dallas we got in 45 minutes early so we arrived at 415 a.m. the day before yesterday 4:15 in the morning I had a 4our layover to Get the first flight to Austin

at 8:15 so I have 4 hours now when I was planning this trip I was upset with the guy who made my travel Arrangements because 4 hours after flying all night sitting in an empty airport was not something that I really wanted to do and I was thinking about what I'm going to do so I took some things to read but 4 hours you know and it's on Maui time that's you know that's the middle of the night I mean It's the middle of the night here it's the beginning of the middle of the night

there anyway so I'm walking I walk over to the uh we we landed at C and I had to get to a so I walked to a and while I walked by gate a39 I see that there's a flight to Chicago at uh 5:30 a.m. and I just stood there for the longest time looking at that flight 5:30 in the morning it's the only it's the only gate that's open at the whole airport 5:30 people going to Chicago at 5:30 for some reason I stood there for the longest time okay and then I started to

walk down towards my gate which was A8 but for some reason a desire was placed in my head to stop at gate 33 I don't know why I said well I'll just sit here for the next hour and I've got some reading to do and I got some outlining to do and I want to think about what I want to speak about uh the next day here right now this morning um and a woman walks by and she Um she sits down uh right you know just like a few seats away and she looked at

me she said oh she said are you going to Chicago too and I said uh no I'm not going to Chicago uh I said I'm going to Austin but I'm going to be here for another week until the next flight and she said oh and she had sort of a heavy accent I think she was from Europe someplace and so she sat there for a while and all of a sudden this Des This thing hits me again this desire hits me I had just looked at the flight going to Chicago at gate 39 and she's

at gate 33 and she's going to Chicago it must be and I went over to her she was very nervous about me approaching her at 4:00 in the morning in the Dallas airport and nobody else is around anywhere she just kind of back I understood that um and she said uh I said to her I said are you going you're going to to Chicago yeah she said yeah It's right here it's coming at gate 33 I said but it's 5:00 you know there's nobody here she said no but it's 5 and she just sat there

she was comfortable and I I took her hand and I said and I walked her down to the monitor there and I looked at the flight to Chicago I said it's gate 39 she said no I'm on G on flight 90 I said yeah it says flight 90 to Chicago American Airlines uh it's a gate 39 you're at the wrong gate um you better get down to that gate and she and Then she just took off and ran and she was gone now I tell you that story because like in this time that I'm there

this desire first of all to stop and look at this flight to Chicago and study it for the longest time and then and make the connection and think now I've got to help this woman to get to Chicago she's going to be sitting here and miss her flight and so on so that was one of the things that happened in there then I went over to buy a banana when the place Opened at 6:00 um and there's a girl in there who's got Army fatigues on uh and she had just uh flown in I don't

know where she was flying to but she was a military uh you know active duty person and she was uh getting herself a it was at a Dunkin Donuts place okay and and she needed to hear this talk too about gluten and all of that but uh she really needed to hear it you know she was so she was ordering her doughnut and Ordering whatever else she ordered there it came through seven or $8 and I just stepped in front of her I said you know I'd really like to take care of this and I

said here the banana and whatever she wants and I put my arms around her and thanked her for her service and all of the wonderful things that the military does to keep us all safe I was in it for four years I know about that uh and so this now it's like in a 4our in in a 4H hour delay I have two desires placed Into my head it wasn't my human self that placed that desire to get that woman to her flight it wasn't my human self that placed that desire to do something nice

for this girl it was whenever there's a thought in there that that the impersonal you is always speaking to you and whenever it's compelling and you feel like you have to do something like I could have just sat there and let that lady just sit there and think well she knows what she's Doing and she's a little bit intimidated by me talking to her anyway and just let it go but was so overwhelming and she has no idea that you know had that desire not been placed in my head she would have missed her flight

and who knows and so on so it's like getting to this place in our in our awareness that every desire that we have particularly now every mother in this room knows what I'm talking about because that's what the doubt Teaches us that we forget about ourselves and we just offer it's what a nursing mother does it's like I just give you of of my body and it doesn't make any difference how uncomfortable I am or whatever when that overwhelming compelling desire to be of service to someone else that's your highest self saying this is your

Dharma I will lead you to a higher place a place of love and I've asked my daughter because it's just a little bit after 12 and I have a Few more minutes to go I've asked Sky if she'll come up and there's a song I I i' love her to close this uh this presentation with it's a song I don't so much want you me her her she's going to sing this AC cappella which is just amazing her voice and what she does but the words to this song are so powerful there everything I've been

attempting to convey to you here this morning the song is called The Greatest Love of All and it was of course sung by The great Whitney Houston who had one of the greatest voices of all time just a few days before she passed away I even said this iy I really feel like I need to contact Whitney and then I didn't follow through on it and uh two days later I don't know that I had anything to do with it but uh seriously I mean when you have these overwhelming desires to reach out and serve

someone and you can't get it out Of your head you just can't get it out of your and it's not for you and it's not how much you're going to make or it's not it it becomes overwhelming so this is my beautiful daughter Sky singing from singing fearlessly are you singing fearlessly of course well this is one of the things we had talked about many times because she's been on stage with me since she was eight years old traveling around the world with me singing and I've always Taught her I said everybody there's a lot

of people with great voices but you have to sing fearlessly so my beautiful daughter Sky singing I believe the children are our future teach them well and let lead the way show them all the beauty they possess [Music] inside them a sense of Pride to make it easier let the children's laugh remind us how we used to be everybody Searching for hero people look up anyone who fulfill my needs a lonely place to be so I learn to depend on me I decided long ago never to walk in any one Shadow if I fail if

I succeed at least I live as I believe no what they take from me they can't take away my Dignity because The Greatest Love of All is happening to me I found the Greatest Love of All inside of me The Greatest Love of All Is easy to achieve Lear to love yourself it is The Greatest Love of All I believe the children are a future teach them well and let them lead the Way show them all the beauty they possess [Music] them a of Pride to make it easier let the children's laugh remind us how

we used to be I decided long ago never to walk in anyone Shadow if I fail if I succeed at least I live as I believe no matter what they take from me They can't take away my dignity because the Greatest Love of All is happening to me [Music] I found the Greatest Love of All inside of me The Greatest Love of All it's easy to achieve Le love Yourself it is The Greatest Love of All and if by chance that special place that youve been dreaming lead you to a lonely place find your strength

in [Music] love beautiful honey beautiful beautiful beautiful see that thank you great job The Greatest Love The Greatest Love of All it's that it's that impersonal love the love that has no opposites when you listen to Anita today when you listen to Alex later today and so many of the wonderful speakers that are at this event it's all about this it's all about having that compelling urge and listening inside and reaching in and being of service I ended my PBS special with my Favorite poem by Hafiz the great haes who said that even after all

this time the Sun never says to the Earth you owe me just think what a love like that can do it lights up the whole world that kind of love when you find that inside of yourself you start seeing the most the most Immaculate of changes take Place and my favorite poem is called in a treehouse by hafi light will someday split you open even if your life is now a cage for a Divine seed the crown of Destiny is hidden and sewn on an ancient fertile plane that you hold the title to love will

surely bust you wide open into an unfettered blooming new Galaxy even if your mind is now a Spoiled mule a lifegiving Radiance will come the friend's gratuity will come oh look again within yourself for I know you were once the elegant h to all the Marvels in creation it's one of my favorite lines look again within yourself for I know you were once the elegant host to all the Marvels in creation before you showed up in this world of form and where you're headed From a sacred creev from a sacred crevice in your body a

bow Rises each night and shoots your soul into God behold the beautiful drunk singing one from the lunar vantage point of love he is conducting the Affairs of the whole universe while throwing wild parties in a treehouse on a limb in your heart in your heart you hold the title to all the marvels of creation In Mobi dick Melville says for as this appalling ocean surrounds The Verdant land so in the soul of man lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all of the horrors of the half-lived life the half-lived

life is the life where you refuse to recognize your own Divinity that you are a spark of God and you must be like what you came From as roomie put it you who seek God apart apart that which you seek Thou Art Thou Art if you want to see the beloved's face polish the mirror and gaze into that space that's where you'll find God and when you are compelled compelled to reach out in love you will find your impersonal self because in every single Moment of your life you have one choice I promise you one

choice you can either be a host to God or a hostage to Your Ego it's your call