Finding Your Intention and Spiritual Awakening with Dr. Wayne Dyer

[Music] you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you want to produce Dr Wayne Dyer enlightened and inspired generations of fans with his exploration of the spiritual aspects of The Human Experience there's no mistakes in this universe the only mistakes are the mistakes that we have that we are separate from the Perfection into which we were created and through public Television reached millions of viewers who delighted in his broadcast specials the ability to take a conflict and to end it with love is one of the most powerful things that you can do it has

been a great lesson for me now we honor his memory with a celebration of 18 years of televised events join us and immerse yourself in his motivating uplifting and exhilarating guidance when the forever wisdom of Dr Wayne Dyer airs next when you Change the way you look at things the things you look at [Music] change I included this particular observation of castanas in the writing of the power of intention because it was this particular quote that um really inspired me to to write this book and to produce this program and to be here with you

today and here's what the quote says in the Universe there is an unmeasurable Indescribable Force which those who live of the source in quotes of the source and of the source means sorcerer now not sorcerer in the word uh when we think of sorcerer we think of witches and incantations and all kinds of Hocus Pocus and so on that's not what the word sorcerer means it means of the source those who live of the source in the universe there is an unmeasurable And Indescribable Force which those who live of the source call intention and that

absolutely everything that exists in the entire Cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link and then he goes on to say Sorcerers are not only concerned with understanding and explaining that connecting link but they are especially concerned with cleansing it of the numbing effects brought about by all of The concerns of living at ordinary levels of consciousness very important and powerful words to consider think of it like this that everything in this universe was intended here including you including every mosquito and every palm tree and every avocado and all of the Rocky Mountains and

the oceans that everything that shows up in the material world emanates from a source and this Source can be Thought of as that which intends things into the material world and the question here today isn't whether or not you are going to be connected to it because you couldn't be you couldn't be listening to this program you couldn't be processing what I'm saying here if you weren't connected to this field this field beats your heart this this field of energy grows your fingernails and grows everybody else's fingernails I used to say it uh It grows

your hair but I've become a little suspicious of that you know but this it animates all life now this is one observation that intention is what I'd like you to think of when I think about the power of intention intention isn't about whether you're going to connect to it you're already connected to it the question is how Rusty how corroded how dirty is the link between you and this field of intention and Sorcerers are are those who are Concerned with cleansing this connecting link so that you become more and more in rapport with or in

harmony with this field of intention and the more you're in harmony with this field of intention the more you are able to do all that this field of intention is able to do you are able to create Miracles you are able to heal yourself you are able to attract into your life the abundance that has been missing you are able to find the right people and have Them show up exactly on time because that's how the universal Source from which all things and all people originated that's how it works and what we're going to be

doing here today in this program is looking at how to get that link back to intention and to not only be connected to it but to always be ready to keep that connecting link clean uncorroded one of the things that really intrigues me is this Idea and I heard it many many years ago I'm not even sure of the original Source where I heard it but it goes like this when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change Albert Einstein once observed that uh you have the most fundamental and

major decision that you have to make in your life is this do I live in a friendly or a hostile Universe which is it is it a universe That is filled with hostility and anger and people wanting to hate each other and people wanting to kill each other is that what you see because when you see the world that way that's exactly what you will create for yourself in your life this is from great scientific minds and the interesting thing is that this is not just a a clever play on words that when you change

the way you look at things the things you look at change it's actually a very scientific thing And I'm going to show you that in just a moment I'd like you to imagine the following scene you're in your house you've got your car keys in your hand the lights go out power failure you can't see a thing you stumble around in your living room and you drop your keys and you look around for a moment and you realize that you're never going to find them in the dark but you look Outside and you notice that

the street lights are on so in your mind a light bulb goes off H I'm not going to sit around here in the dark and grope around looking for my keys when there's a light on outside I'm going to go out here under the street light and I'm going to look for my keys why are you laughing this is this makes a lot of sense so you're out here and you're groping around and you're looking for your keys and you're looking And looking and your neighbor comes along and says what happened Wayne well um I

dropped my keys oh I'll help you look for him and the two of us are now down here looking for our keys and looking finally he says to me excuse me but um where did you drop your keys well um I dropped them in the house he said you mean to tell me that you dropped your keys in the house and you're looking for them out here in the street stre light doesn't make any sense And I said well it doesn't make any sense to grope around in the dark when there's light out here now

you laugh and you think how silly that is but isn't that exactly what we do when we have a problem a difficulty a struggle that is located inside and we're looking for the solution outside someplace outside of ourselves the question isn't whether I'm connected to this field of intention the question is how ready am I I to keep That connecting link absolutely corrosion free there are two kinds of attention according to Neville subjective attention and objective attention subjective attention is different from objective attention you want to use subjective attention not objective attention Neville says there's

an enormous difference between attention directed objectively and attention directed subjectively and the capacity To change your future depends on the latter whatever you have placed into your imagination you always go to your reality and call that which does not exist as if it did I am and you I have a rule about it it's don't complain and don't explain you don't have to explain what you have placed into your imagination it is totally yours one of my great teachers in my life in my early doctoral years was Dr Abraham maslo he said become independent of

the Good opinion of other people trust yourself subjective attentions you and only you Capital yo you are the subject that impacts the burning desire in your imagination you are living and feeling as if your future dreams are a present fact of objective attention you become the objectified result of other people telling you what you can't do what's impossible and so on subjective attention mine is mine I have an image that I use I call It the superglue method and when I have an intention about what it is including doing this program when I have an

intention about making this program a reality and it involves a lot of money and a lot a lot of expense a lot of people a lot of things have to come come together it involves going over into my writing space every single day never giving up on it for even if I don't feel like writing four or five hours every single day because I Superglue I super glue my intention into my imagination and I don't allow anybody else's opinions to do anything to distract from that I don't care if they tell me I can't do

it or if it's impossible or it'll cost too much or we can't do my intentions are super glued there and I have that do not disturb sign placed on my imagination and it is mine use this don't allow anybody else's opinions don't allow what it says on the internet don't allow the research don't Allow what anybody out there tells you is possible or not possible for [Applause] [Music] you the ego and awareness cannot coexist to together the ego is a kind of thinking that says that who I am is what I have and what I

do and what other people think of me and that I'm separate from everyone else and I'm separate from God and uh and I evaluate myself on the Basis of this and many of you grew up with this idea that uh who you are is what you do what you accumulate what other people think of you your reputation and so on thinking with awareness is thinking from the highest place that there there is it's the kind of thinking that uh allows excuses to be eradicated from your life it's the thinking that uh is talked about in

the New Testament With God all things are Possible now you tell me what does that leave out what does all things are possible leave out nothing does it so when you think from a place of awareness you think in terms of instead of using one of these excuses that you see popping up here on these little thought bubbles across the stage that I can't do it um I'm too tired I'm too old it's going to be difficult it's going to take a long time which is all the ego stuff Which promotes these mind viruses and

these memes instead of that when you think with awareness your first thought is no matter what it is if you get a cold you know if you get um you know if you hurt yourself in some way your first thought isn't oh this is something I can't do anything about and I'm going to be hobbled and and I'm going your first thought is With God all things are possible with Source all things are possible it Doesn't mean that you're instantly healed and the cold is going to go away but you set your mind on a

new way of looking at virtually anything that comes into your life all things are possible and getting to that place in your life is is it's one of the most beautiful things that you can experience and I try to practice this over and over again whatever it might be whether it's a a family crisis whether it's a financial crisis whatever it may be instead of Saying that with the economy and it's going to turn down and terrible things are going to happen and I'm going to lose my job you know you instantly you have a

thought an affirmation within you that says I can handle this I am not alone I can make myself get through this uh uh I have the solution is going to be out there I may not know what it is but my thoughts are always on it's possible so that's the first of these principles the second of these principles is Something that I call uh alignment hear this and hear this well all excuses are misalignments and when I say misalignment I mean you're misaligned from your Source you came into this world from this perfect this beautiful

place I have a wonderful paraphrase of a quote by uh TS Elliot he said we we shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all of our Exploring will be to return to the place from which we originated and to know it for the first time he was talking about death I think I'm saying why should we have to die in order to get to that place to know to really know our source I quoted it many times of Albert Einstein when he was asked a question about about quantum physics or something U

again it's a paraphrase he said um I all of that is just details he said I just want to Learn to think like God thinks that's really what alignment means you think like the source thinks and if you get to that place you have to understand that whatever the Creative Source in the universe is whether you call it the da or God or Source or you know Divine mind whatever you want to call it it doesn't need any excuses does it it doesn't ever say well I'd really like to create some uh rose bushes here

but I'm too busy you know my hands are Tied I just can't I can't get to that right now you know I'm a little old I've been doing this for a long time you know it's like you know I'm tired I'm tired that's all I ever do you know it's like it's great it doesn't do that it just it just allows it just allows that's how you want to think and every excuse that you saw coming up in these thought bubbles out there is really just a misalignment you want to move to [Music] That the

Creative Source the Creative Source in your life here it is right here this Creative Source this Source reacts to your belief in shortages with a fulfillment of your belief if you believe there's shortages out there and you can't attract them into your life now this is a source that is unlimited abundance it just is a constant state of creating it's always creating okay so it doesn't know anything about shortages if you come to This source with a belief that there are shortages in terms of your life it will fulfill your belief if you believe that

you can't be healed that it's just impossible for you to be healed if you believe you can't be happy if you believe that you have to be miserable if you believe that you can't attract the right person if you've got something that you want to fund some project that you want to fund and you can't get it funded and you come to this source with A belief in shortages it will fulfill your belief it only knows how to be remember what I said earlier you are at one with this and you are also at one

with all of its principles and you have to contemplate yourself as connected to in harmony with in rapport with this it's like there's a game it's been on television for years it's called The Match Game and this match game is a it's a fun little game to watch because you get people who you really think know Each other and they try they say something and they try to match it up you're always in to you want to get into a match game yourself and the match game you want to be into is one in which

you match up with with this Source you're going to always try to be matched up with that what I'm asking you to do in this program and an understanding intention and the power of intention I'm asking you to see yourself at every moment of your life when you're having a Thought when things aren't working when you're not feeling well when the right people aren't there you could say something to yourself I heard people say this you know they I tell people always think from the end think from the end so I was talking to a

man one day down in the where I work out in in a gym and I said to him he's been sick he's got nose running he's got you know snoopies running out of his nose he's got uh it's disgusting and uh I said how long how Long have you been sick Marty you will never believe this answer he said in 3 weeks it'll be a month what kind of thinking is that I was changing plane in Dallas one time and uh there was about 8 minutes to go before I had to make a connection and

the woman next to me she said um I said I I'd really uh I'd really appreciate if I could just step in front of you because I'm going to make my connection she said you're going to have to change Trains and and and get to another terminal she said there's no way that you can make your connection she's still in Dallas I think from the end I see myself as already connected to that which I want to attract into my life and if it doesn't work out for some reason I don't get I don't use

blame I don't get anger I don't I just simply say to myself this is the way it is supposed to be and I'm at peace with it I choose to be at peace Because this is peace you want to watch the resistance what kind of selft talk do we have if you think about what is missing in your life and you talk to other people about what is missing in your life and you share a lot with what's missing in your life I'm missing the right person my soulmate has never showed up you know I'm

missing the money I don't have the and you talk about all the things that are missing in your life you are here's your connection To Source remember you're always connected the question is are you ready to stop living at ordinary levels of consciousness are you start willing to live at a spiritual level of Consciousness in which you are in rapport with that which provides everything so if you're thinking about what's missing and you go to this Universal source asking to have fixed what is missing in your life you'll have your belief in What's missing continueed

to be refocused for you in the Old Testament says as a man thinketh so is he if you think about what is missing don't be surprised if you keep attracting what's missing into your life if you think about what always has been then don't be surprised if what always has been is what keeps showing up in your life because thoughts are energy and the thought of it's always been this way and there's nothing I can do Resistance what emotion am I feeling frustration I want to change that what is my guidance system I'm going to

see how in harmony am I with this energy of source with the energy of intention how in harmony with it am I the source of of of all doesn't know anything about things being missing there's nothing missing in this Universal source and you emanated from that you are a piece of that if you're always thinking about what they want for you and there's no Shortage of them they're called relatives I'm going to write a book someday that's going to be called your friends are God's way of apologizing for your relatives why because by the way

I gave this same talk to your relatives and they applauded even louder okay because a friend is someone before whom You can think aloud a friend is not someone who makes demands on you and tells you what you should be doing or what you shouldn't be doing there are very often because we believe that we're related to people we have talk and then what happens with us is that we start talking to other people about what they want for us and we despise what they want for us we get angry at them for even wanting

that for us and then we get surprised when what They want for us keeps showing up see self-actualizing people Abraham maslo once said the difference between self-actualizing people the highest functioning people and everybody else is that self-actualizing people must be what they can be self-actualizing people must be what they can be what can you be what can you be [Music] I'd like to see you change from this thought change from seeing yourself as Separate to seeing yourself as connected to everyone and everything in the universe our ego tells us that we are separate that who

we are is this body that we have and everybody out there is separate from me nothing has been more profound and more powerful and important for me than this verse of the da Ching this idea that we are all one that all of us emanated from the same source and by doing so by emanating from the same Source we need to see ourselves as connected to every single being every single person every single flower every single tree every single animal if you can see yourself in everyone we're all connected it makes about as much sense

to me to have a smoking section in a restaurant as it does to have a peeing section in a swimming pool right [Laughter] oh no no no kids no no no no no no no Don't pee over here we pee over here does that make any sense the Native American is one of my favorite quotes I've used it many many times the Native Americans would say no tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves no tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves we are all branches es on a tree called

Humanity when you read the do when you read this idea about Changing these thoughts and changing your life you're going to see endless verses that speak to the absurdity of the idea of you having an enemy the idea that you and anyone else on this planet is an enemy in the da it says I and enemy cannot exist in the same sentence and he said even those who go to war the ones who will Triumph in war are those who go to war without an enemy and they will treat Every victory in war not as

something to celebrate but as a funeral as an indication that we haven't reached the highest place within ourselves to see that even those people that we judge to be our enemy are really connected to us and it says in the Dow that a bad man a bad man is a good man's job and a good man is a bad man's teacher a good man is a bad man's teacher there's an observation that I came across in the writing of uh Power Of intention by a man who gave a lecture I I'm not sure the exact

year but it was in the early 1900s his name was Thomas troward and he gave a series of lectures on mental science at the Edinburgh in Scotland called the Edinburgh and Dory lectures and one of those observation one of those quotations was this I really love this he said the law of Flotation was not discovered by the contemplation of the sinking of things is that great imagine yourself trying to figure out you what he made an observation that before about the 15th or 16th centuries um all of the ships in the world were made out

of wood and why do you think they made ships out of wood for so many centuries because when you put wood in water what happens it floats and our conclusion was the law of flotation must Be you want things to float make them out of things that float but now we have realized that in studying the law of flotation that it has nothing to do with what the material is made out it has to do with the amount of water that is being displaced so now all the ships of the world are made out of

stuff that doesn't float and yet they float imagine the law of flight being being discovered by someone by Two Brothers contemplating the staying on The ground of things so what we want to do is figure out a way uh to reconnect ourselves to surrounding ourselves with this um with this idea that we are already connected to everything that we need for everything in our life we we've just separated ourselves by believing that we're something that we're not in a book that I wrote a few years back called the 10 secrets for success and inner peace

which was the which was part of a PBS Special one of those Secrets is called treasuring your Divinity treasuring your Divinity and I came across this observation and I was writing some notes on what I'm just talking about on contemplating things listen to these words we know that by the very nature of the creative process which is what intention is about learning to create the life that you want the world that you want the people that you want the Excitement that you want the health that you want everything we know that by the very nature

of the creative process that we are one with this originating spirit and therefore we are also one with all of its principles whatever this is like whatever it sounds like whatever it thinks like whatever it looks like we are one with it and consequently we are one with its infinite personality we are not here as human beings having spiritual experiences we are all Spiritual Beings having human experiences all of us we are all infinite and therefore our contemplation of this this source as the power which we want gives us the ability to use that power

and the way that we use this process is to contemplate ourselves as surrounded by the conditions which we want to produce keep that in mind underline that surround yourself internally with the conditions Contemplate them which you want to produce what is it you want to produce in your life what do you intend to create for yourself it's not your ego that's going to do it it's your free will to reconnect to this which is the source of everything you're going to be by the end of this program you're going to be in rapport with in

harmony with this if you call my cell phone pick up the phone I don't not give that number but Uh if you were to call this number this is what you would get as a message from me hi this is Wayne Dyer that you've reached and I want to feel good if your call is designed to do anything other than that you have reached the wrong number and I urge you to call Dr [Applause] [Music] Phil I think of my source as the ocean and I think of myself as a glass and if I were

to take this glass and I would dip it into this ocean of abundance and say what do I have here here what I have here is a glass of my source now it's not as big and it's not as strong but it is still a glass of my source to which I am always connected and if I were to take one drop of this source and I would have put it over here and I would have say to this drop this drop of water I would like you to create and sustain life I Would like

you to perform Miracles I would like you to end all of my problems and you watch that drop of water separate from its source you would see that it's going to change form from liquid into gas and eventually it'll return to its source there's no place else that it can go there's only one source but while this drop of water is separate from its source it loses all of the Power of its source and this drop of water separate From its source is a symbol or a metaphor for your ego the part of you that

believes that you have separated from this Divinity into which you were created and as long as you're here believing that you're separate from it you will not understand the powers that you get when you figure out a way to reconnect to your source and becoming quiet and becoming someone who is uh making conscious contact with your source One of the most beautiful and it's a true story as well it goes like this I call it the Shia story in Brooklyn New York this is titled where is God's perfection in Brooklyn New York chush C us

chush is a school that caters to learning disabl children some children remain in chush for their entire School career While others can be mainstreamed into conventional schools at a chush Fundraising event a dinner the father of a chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended after extoling the school and its dedicated staff he cried out where is the perfection in my son Shia everything God does is done with perfection but my child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do where is God's Perfection here the audience was shocked

by the Question and pained by the father's anguish and stilled by the piercing query I believe the father answered that when God brings a child like Shia into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child he then told the following story about his son Shia one afternoon Shia and his father walked past a park where some boys Shia knew were playing baseball Shia asked his father do you think they'll let me Play Shia's father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys wouldn't

even want him on their team but Shia's father understood that if his son was chosen to play it would give him a sense of belonging and as you know maso's highest level of Consciousness is on that pyramid is a feeling of belonging and Shia never felt that way Shia's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shia could Play the boy looked around for some guidance from his teammates and getting none he took matters into his own hands and he said well we're losing by six runs and the game is in

the eighth inning I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning Shia's father was ecstatic as Shia smiled broadly Shia was told to put on a glove and go out to play in center field in the bottom of the eighth inning shyia team scored a few runs but They were still behind by three in the bottom of the ninth inning Shia's team scored again and now with two outs and the base is loaded Shia was scheduled to be up with the potential winning run

on base would the team actually let shy a bat at this juncture of the game and give away their chance to win surprisingly Shia was given the bat everyone knew that it was all but Impossible because Shia didn't even know how to hold a bat let alone hit with it however as Shia stepped up to the plate the pitcher moved in a few steps so he could Bob the ball in softly so that shot would at least be able to make contact with the ball the first pitch came in shyia swung clumsily and he missed

and then one of Shia's teammates came up out of the Dugout and together he and Shia held the bat and faced the opposing pitcher Waiting for the next pitch the two of them the pitcher again took in a few more steps toward Chia so he could TOS the ball even more softly and as the pitch came in Shia and his teammate together swung the bat and together they hit a slow ground ball to the pitcher the pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman Shia would have

been out and that would have ended the Game but instead the pitcher took the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field far beyond the reach to the first Bas everyone started yelling Shia Shia run to first run to first never in his life had Shia run to first he scampered down the Baseline wide-eyed and startled by the time he reached first base the right fielder had the ball and he could have thrown the ball to the second baseman who would tag out Shia who was still Running but the right fielder understood

what the piters intentions intentions were so he threw the ball high and Far Over the third baseman's head everyone yelled run the second Shia run the second Shia ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home as Shia reached second base the opposing shortstop ran up to him turned him in the direction of third base and shouted run to third Shia run To third as Shia rounded third the boys from both teams ran behind him screaming Shia Shia run home run home Shia ran home stepped on home plate

and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the hero as he had just hit a grand slam and won the game for his team that day said said his father now with soft tears rolling down his face those 18 boys reached their Level of God's Perfection is that a beautiful story it always touches me [Music] Jack was a Unity minister in Detroit he passed away about 12 years ago a man who when I wrote yonia three decades ago called me up and asked me if he could put together some tapes on

it and would I give him permission and he was he had started a Unity Church over on the east side of Detroit and uh asked me if he could use that I said absolutely I no and over the years I began to uh speak at his church and his congregation and and come to Detroit a lot my home and we became very close we became like brothers and um he got very sick and he had uh cancer throughout his back and so on and I went with him to my friend deac chopra's uh place the

ayurveda center out in Massachusetts During the day we would go out and then in the evening he would come in and Jack always had to have a story it had to he had to tell a story and and he started he's talking to me about these wonderful little creatures called monarch butterflies and how much he loved them and and the reason that he loved them he said Wayne these are the most amazing little things in the world I mean they've got a brain the size of a pin prick just no brain essentially and They're made

out of tissue paper you know like toilet paper they're just flimsy little things and they come out and they're they come out of a a Calis on the on the uh on a branch in a tree in uh in Brazil now they're they don't have a brain and they're made out of toilet paper essentially and they fly to Nova Scotia 4,385 miles away and they spend some time there doing whatever you do in Nova Scotia if you're a monarch butterfly and then they turn around these pin prick brain toilet paper insects and they fly all

the way back to Brazil but not only do they go back to Brazil they go back to the same tree not only they go back to the same tree they go back to the same branch and they start the whole process all over again with another C I mean it's like I've got a brain that's supposed to be pretty good size I leave my cell phone in the bedroom I did this just the other day and I walk out of the bedroom I can't find my cell phone I have to call the number on another

phone and I'm listening to this funny little sound that I and looked at under pillows I know it's over I had a call twice cuz I didn't want to get charged for the first well anyway well and I and these things conf find the same branch That they were that they came out of a cocon on so anyway he would tell me about the the miracle of these things all right so I wrote that whole story the 17 chapters about the language of spirit how Spirit speaks to us in ways that we don't even that

we're not even aware of it speaks in terms of alignments when things align when the same numbers appear the same ideas keep showing up when these when these kinds of alignments show up so I called my uh Editor Joanna who's here tonight um who's edited everything I've done for the last 30 years or so and can only only person in the world who can read my handwriting um and um I read her the story of the of Jack and the monarch butterfly and I called my friend the president of Hay House who's my publisher who's

also here tonight Reed Tracy my best friends in the world and um I read both of them the story all right and then CU I always do that when I finish a chapter I read it to just see what it sounds like took off on my walk it's 12:30 in the afternoon I'm going for a walk along kopali Beach and I walk and I walk and I get out to this place called Black Rock not on West Maui and um I'm walking there and I'm at peace and I'm going to meditate and I got my

cell phone with me you know I found it and uh a monarch butterfly flies right out of the tree And I've I don't think I've ever seen monarchs there before a monarch butterfly flies out of the tree and circles and lands right there 3 feet in front of me so I think well little bit of a coincidence but uh you know that's cuz I just wrote I just read the whole story just and I reach over to pick up this butterfly and it looks at me like I'm a butterfly you know I I don't deal

with humans I my DNA is programmed to stay away from you and it flies away and It goes out about 40 yards and it makes a uturn and it comes back and it lands on my finger right here and I look at it and I have never had this happen before in my life I I've had butterflies brush up against me once but I've never had one just seek me out so it lands here and I immediately reached for my cell phone and I called Joanna you remember and I said Joanna there's a monarch butterfly

on my finger you know what I just read to you this morning she said as she always does she's so sweet and peaceful met meditate I said meditate this is a monarch butterfly I just wrote about him and Jack and the she said just go meditate on him so I call another number and I call Reed the president of Hay House my buddy all right and I said readed I read to you this morning about A monarch butterfly I've now got one on my finger it flew to me he said get a picture I said

what are you talking about get a picture I'm might got my bathing suit on and a cell phone I don't have a camera he said we've been thinking about what's going to be on the cover of the book he said this is perfect right away thinking about you know this is inspiration this is like it's come to you for that reason get a picture get a picture so I went I Took Joanna's advice and I meditated now it's 1:00 and in the afternoon when this happened and I meditate for 30 minutes and I call Joanna

back and I said it's still with me and I call Reed back he said get a picture so now this butterfly has doing during the meditation I I don't know how to say this without sounding strange but it's uh it's okay because every word of this is true I Swear to you this butterfly was trying to talk to me I don't know how close you've ever looked at a monarch butterfly but it had tiny little almost like teeth but they're not really teeth I know they don't have teeth and I bring the butterfly up real

close to my eye and it's it's doing this I swear and I said Jack CU I had just written about him I thought it was Jack and then I took the butterfly and I put it over by my ear in case it was making little sounds and it had a little you know I I was just totally freaked out by this thing because it's now been an hour it's been an hour it's now and it won't go it's like I take it over here I put it over on this finger it it's over here it

won't go and I'm going okay you know that was not it won't Leave it's just connected to me so I walk I think I said maybe Reed's got a point here maybe we need to get a picture of this thing so I decide to walk back to where I live and I walk along now in the on Maui in the afternoon the trade winds come in and they really blow hard in the afternoon and I'm walking the ocean is over here the trades are coming in and the butterflies Wings toilet paper are all the way

bent over but it won't leave all The way b as far as it go and then I come back and I get out of the wind and it goes you know it's like flashing and making sounds and I hold it up so I'm walking along the beach or the beach there and there's a little girl who she's about four five six years old who's totally traumatized because she got the wrong color Slurpee that's that's her issue okay giving her mother more grief you know I want to tell her about Immaculate in the Bathroom I want

to tell her you know she I want purple I wanted yellow and you gave me purple slurpy I hate purple slurp going on and on real real so I tap her on the shoulder tears are on and I just well I said uh you want to see my pet butterfly I did she said what's his name what's his name name what's his name I said Jack this is Jack I did and she went she went from uh I don't know how to say This she went from pissed to Bliss okay I I don't know if

you can use that she went from you know being so upset to just this total state of bliss and just one second the tears dried up she smiled she wanted to know if she could take it home I said no what are you talking about this is my butterfly h i get all the way back to where I'm going it's now about 1:30 in the afternoon about an hour and a half has Gone by I I live in a place where they have a concierge downstairs and there's a pool there and there's a girl there

her name is Cindy and I I walk upstairs and I call Cindy down at the pool and I said Cindy can you walk over to the ABC store and get a uh portable camera and be here in uh 5 minutes she said do you want me to come to your apartment with a portable camera in 5 minutes I said yes I do she said why I said I want you to take a picture Of me in my [Applause] butterfly she said uh what are you smoking I said no it's true I found a butterfly and

she does yoga and she's like one of these people she she said okay I also said there's $100 in it for you if you can get here in 5 minutes she went up there came back she had got one of these little cameras I went out sat on the Leni with the Manuscript and I had 20 I think 29 pictures she got of me with the butterfly and I was posing with it it was like you know over here my butterfly here I was I did I didn't know what he wanted I don't know what

you know so so uh she went that's that's the actual butterfly truly it is now we had to take different picture because those you know $113 Cameras aren't the kind you can use on photographs on books and so on but uh I insisted that they put jack on my finger on this so they transposed it through I don't know through computers or whatever so that's the actual butterfly and if it flies out of there right now I'm going to fall down all right I promise you so so I get back I had to pay she

went took the camera in got the pictures to develop it's now um around 2 2:00 in the afternoon so so it's been or 3:00 in the Afternoon it's been 2 hours right that but now I don't know what I'm going to do with this butter what do you feed a butterfly you know what uh do I get a leash you know do I do I get a cage am I going to keep him do I you know get rid of whatever you know I didn't know what I was going to do with it but uh

I set it down on the manuscript that I had handwritten that morning where it talked where I talked about Jack and the and the monarch butterfly and I set it on There figuring my recognized that this is where it came from or whatever I had it walking around on the and I went in went back took a shower it was gone did a little meditation did a little work and so on came back butterfly is still there two and a half hours and I reached down after having taken a and I put my finger down

there and the Butterfly looked back up at me just like it did when I went to pick it up down here as if to say who are you and what are you Doing and I'm going to show you that I'm not sick and this isn't an accident and it took up and it circled me and it took off straight out towards the ocean made a circle and was gone all right and that's my butterfly story determination is one of the most important principles you can practice in your life especially when it comes to your burning

desire a burning desire is what separates us from mediocrity and ordinariness as you listen to my stories I want you to decide that you will be determined never to give up on or to ignore your burning desire whatever it may be choose to honor your burning desire and you will climb the sacred ladder towards Higher [Music] Ground the next principle I called don't die with your music Still In You and who better to quote than thorough right here in conquer when he talked to about some of us hear a Different drama and we must March

to the music that we hear but all of you everybody watching everybody here in this beautiful Parish all of you have some music playing and all of you have a heroic Mission there's no accidents in this universe we all show up here with a purpose there's an intelligence that is a part of everything and everyone and all of us have connected to it And too many of us are afraid to listen to that music and March to it you out there I know you have a book you wanted to write I know there's a composition

you wanted to compose I know there's a song you want to sing someplace maybe you want to raise horses out in Montana or maybe you want to open up an ice cream shop on Cape Cod who knows what it may maybe maybe you just want to travel and see the world maybe you want to go Into a relationship with someone but you've been afraid to but your heart says it's the right thing to do all of us feel something and in Leo tol sto's famous novel The Death of Ivan illich he asks this question that

would be terrifying to me he says as he has his accountant from Moscow lying on his deathbed contemplating the horror of this question what if my whole life has been wrong I've known what my music Is it's playing right now as I stand here in front of you with these cameras and in this place and as I sit down and write my books and tell the world what I know are my truths I feel always completely on purpose and fulfilled and no time will I ever come to the end of my life and say what

if my whole life has been wrong whoever you are whatever that music is however distant it may sound however strange however weird Others May Interpret it to be don't get to the end of your life and know that you're going to leave and not have it played yet don't die with your music Still In you it's the message of uh the greatest teachers who've ever walked Among Us it's the message I give to you today as one of the principles for success and peace in your life one of the great teachers in my life was

a man named Patang and he had an observation about uh being in spirit the word in spirit creates a word called Inspire and patang put it this way he said when you are inspired in spirit when you are inspired by some great purpose some extraordinary project all of your thoughts break their bonds your mind transcends limitations your Consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new and a great and a wonderful world and then he Said something so powerful he said dormant forces like forces that you didn't think were accessible to you

dormant forces faculties and talents come alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be those words bring tears to my eyes they're so powerful when you are inspired when you are in spirit when you're in spirit you are creating when you are creating everything is Working my teacher in India one time nissar gadata Maharaj said when he was asked the question there's Wars going on in Pakistan there's people having difficulties here there's people there's people dying there's starvation how can you say that I can heal

myself and that and how can you be at peace when you see all of this going around and you know what he said to his devote he said in my world nothing ever goes wrong what a powerful idea that is you Can't get sick enough to heal those people who are sick around you you can't get poor enough to take care of the lack of abundance in so many people's life the only thing you can do to help that as I'll be talking about a little later is to connect to this I would suggest to

you if you are not creating and if you wonder what your purpose is and so many people wonder what is my purpose and they talk about I Don't know what my purpose is you know what that is your thoughts about your purpose are your purpose trying to reconnect to you like if you want to quit smoking and people say oh it's such a hard thing to do well of course that's resistance and then you know who wants to do hard things when easy things like smoking are available um but if you and and people say

well I've been thinking about it I said keep thinking about it just keep thinking you Want to lose weight keep thinking about it put your attention on it surround yourself with those kind of thoughts because the thinking about it process is a part of your connecting to it eventually you will connect to it and you will begin to act upon what those thoughts are but you got to start by thinking about it and the ultimate purpose you can have in your life I used to have a jacket that uh I hung on my uh closet

door and The and the and the jacket had all of the uh uh Pockets ripped off I took a razor blade to all the pockets cuz someone had once said to me that the last jacket you wear doesn't need any Pockets so because you're not taking anything with you in your pockets all right so every time I'd walk into my closet and I'd look at this tattered jacket with no pockets in it it was a reminder you're going to have to wear a jacket someday That doesn't need any pockets all right and that what so

what do you do with your life your life is like a parenthesis in eternity you show up from an Infinite Source you materialize you're a particle everything you needed for this life is in it and then you close parenthesis what can you do with your life you can't take anything with you you came from nowhere n o w h e r e you Show up in now here n h e r e it's all the same just a question a little spacing and where do you think you're going back to you ain't going nowhere you're

going nowhere from nowhere to now here to Nowhere it's all the same the only thing you can do with your life is give it away when people say to me what is it that I can do with my life what is my purpose my answer is always the same find a way to be of service find a way whatever it is doesn't matter if you're Serving ice cream cones in in Alaska it doesn't matter if you're raising horses in Montana whatever it is when you are of service if you're giving your life away and if

you don't know how to do that you you suspend your ego you you understand that living on purpose means there's no accidents that you're aligning yourself with purpose you ignore other people when they tell you what you should be doing You just ignore it you don't have to have a fight about it you can say thank you for sharing I appreciate that it's very helpful I've never thought of that before I'll consider that that's how you handle all conflict can I join up with this Source energy or can't I the two as soon as you

start striking out you're off of purpose you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you want to produce that's the first face of intention it's ridiculous okay But it's more than what meets the ear as you hear this you can't give away what you don't have people who are not good at giving away love can't give away love because they don't have it to give away if I want to give you a dozen oranges I can't give you those dozen oranges unless I go out and pick up 12 oranges someplace otherwise all it is

is just empty rhetoric and the same thing is true of virtually Everything in your life you can't give away love for others if you don't have love in here to give away if what you have in here is contempt if what you have in here is anger if what you have in here is fear then these are the things you're going to be giving away in your life and I've often thought and I really believe very strongly that uh there's a law sort of a law in the universe I call it the law of attra

action and the law of attraction is one That works like this you get back from the universe from the world what it is that you put out there in the world and if you're putting out there into the world that I am not worthy of attracting Something Beautiful into my life that the universe will respond back to you with exactly that message and there are people who come to me and who came to me for years when I had uh my own counseling practice and so on and they would say to me um I just

Keep attracting the same kind of people the same kind of events the same kind of uh losers into my life why is that why do I keep doing that and I keep attracting uh an absence of uh of abundance I just can't seem to attract abundance into my life I'm always behind the eightball I'm never getting ahead and I suggest to them I said did it ever occur to you that that's the very kind of message you're sending out to the world and out to the universe that the Ocean of abundance is there and you

can go to that ocean of abundance and you can take a Mac Truck and you can fill it up 20 times a day and take it out of there and guess what it doesn't impact at all the ocean of abundance it doesn't even go down a zillionth of an inch it's unlimited or you can go to the same ocean of abundance with a eye dropper and you can just take this much out once a month and say that's all that seems to be Available for me and the interesting thing for me is that when people

go to this ocean of abundance this uh unlimited World all that I have is thine it says in the Holy books all that I have is thine it's all there for you but if you believe inside that it's limited that you can only get so much that other people are going to get it before you do then you'll find yourself creating that very same thing and the even more interesting part about this you can't Give away what you don't have principle is that if your message to the universe is gim me give me give me

which is a lot of people's message to the universe I want this from you I want that from you please give me this I have to have that that's what their prayer is like that's what their message is you know and they say I want this from the universe give me give me me give me the universe's response back to that kind of an uh mentality is exactly the same the Universe will say right back to you over and over again give me give me give me and you'll find yourself never ever arriving but always

being in a state of striving always feeling as if you're being neglected never feeling as if you have enough always feeling as if you're being short changed because you're constantly under the pressure to give to get back what the universe is demanding from you and the interesting thing about all of this the the irony of this is That if you shift that and you say to the universe to the world how may I serve how may I serve the universe's response back to you is how may I serve you how may I serve you [Music]

now every single person watching this program will have conflicts with somebody in their life on a fairly regular basis especially if you're in a A marriage or in a partnership of some kind certainly if you have children you're going to have the you're going to have conflicts now think about what you do when you have a conflict and that conflict comes to a an end the conflict is over you've expressed your opinion they've you may have yelled at each other you may have screamed at each other you may not have understood each other but it's

over now how do you end The conflict Lau says the person of Dao the person of Dao will eliminate all of the pain all of the stress all of the anger all of the hatred if they decide to end the conflict with love just be the one who ends The Silence by saying we don't agree but I love you and it's all over you have moved a person from staying in the world of the 10,000 Things into the world of God into the world of source because the source has no violence in it it creates

endless numbers of flowers and be beings and Creations without using any Force at all there's no Force there here's one of my teachers who lived in Bombay which is now Mumbai in India his name was nissar gadata Maharaj he said wisdom is knowing I am nothing love is knowing I am everything and in between the Two my life moves in between the two the ability to take a conflict and to end it with love is one of the most powerful things that you can do it has been a great lesson for me when we have

a conflict what we do is I will be the person that will pick up that phone you can be certain of it I will I will end that conflict with love and guess what that does to the conflict it's over it's over you can't Pick a fight with someone who just doesn't want to fight anymore who just sends you love not too long ago um just a year or so ago I was going to give a lecture in um in Ephesus Turkey and um I had taken a group of people over there some 300 of

us um and I was going to give a a lecture on on on roomie it was his 85th birthday September the 30th and um and I was going to speak at the home where the mother of Jesus lived the last 30 to 40 years of her life so there were there were 10 buses there were 300 and some of us and the buses all stopped and we all went to go into the restrooms and so the course the women went over here and they had to stand in long lines um and the men went into

a room which is just one gigantic Ural um and you can imagine you know how Wonderful it would be to be in there you know just rethinking it just brings back such wonderful memories you know so I went into this Ural and um and standing at at the door just that there's there a man an older man and he's taking off pieces of sort of dirty paper and he's handing them to us expecting a tip you know for handing us a piece of dirty paper in this room that you know you almost had the gag

to to Stay in and um and when you move towards this thing called Divine love and you want to move towards egolessness and so on there's sort of like a sequence that takes place and the sequence is that uh first you catch yourself with thoughts that do not align with this place of divine love you just you you catch yourself in the sequence okay I thought that when I and I got to remember not to do that the next time and then the next part of that sequence is you you you go Back and you

correct the thought so if you say it you stop and you make the correction because you're really trying to change your subconscious mind is what you're trying to do so that you can become a being of Love rather than a being of ego who's just you know get it and then you start checking your Behavior you realize oh my gosh I behaved rudely toward that person or I wasn't considerate of that or I judged that person I found and so you catch Yourself and you say oh I behave that way the next time I'm not

going to do that but if you want to really change your subconscious programming and move to this place of divine love which is going to end this show it's uh in in the in the last act you um you go back and you correct the behavior and that's what I happened to here in Ephesus Turkey that day I had a very bad judgment about what was taking place there it took me back to things that I probably thought And grew up with and who is this guy doing there why should he be expecting a tip

and why is he handing me this dirty piece of paper and and and there's always people there they're always trying to make a buck and there's all all of this endless kind of EG based kind of non-comp passionate thinking and uh when he went to hand me the paper I just moved away and then I just walked in his W heading back to to give a lecture on how to be spiritual being in The at the home of the mother of Jesus at the home of the mother of Jesus and I got about halfway back

there and I stopped myself and I changed the sequence CU that's what I've been working on don't just change the thought don't just correct the thought don't just just remember the behavior correct the Behavior now and then it'll make an impression on your subconscious mind and you'll start behaving differently towards people in that position so what I did is uh I went back and I didn't tell anybody there that I was doing it but I walked back to the into that bathroom and I had a I had a 20 note in my pocket um which

is about at that time about $30 um and I handed it to this man and I put my arms around him and brought him close to me and um and I thanked him for the for just the courtesy of offering me something to wipe my hands in this place and my thoughts in here Were I didn't just correct my behavior but who knows what's going on maybe this is how he feeds his family of 12 children who knows or maybe he's an opportunist who's but it's like somebody asking you for money you know when you

walk you don't you don't have to give money to everybody who asks you for it on the street but you also don't have to judge them you can always give a silent blessing and and move along but for me it was important to correct the behavior Because it then reinforced for me and it also impacted the talk that I was going to give that day coming from a place of compassion is really about loving yourself it's about forgiving yourself it's about being open to Miracles that Walt Whitman once said that to me to me he

said in Leaves of Grass every cubic inch of space is a miracle and everyone in it I say is a miracle those of you who have followed Me over the years know that one of my very favorite songs is uh Amazing Grace it's a very powerful song we have to walk down a new Street there it is a new and not just for ourselves but for the planet and for our children there's a wonderful prayer that the Native Americans would say when we walk upon the Earth we place our feet very carefully because we Know

that the faces of our future Generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground and we never forget them sometimes I think we have forgotten them sometimes I think we forget that we are borrowing our planet from them this is theirs and they're just letting us use it this on this stage with me I'm proud to say is the San Diego Children's Choir and I would like to tell all of you ladies and Gentlemen the story about the song you're about to sing this song was composed by a man named John Newton who lived

back in the 18th century and he was in the business of selling human beings into slavery he was 22 years old and he was a slave ship captain and in this hideous practice that was so commonplace in the 17th and 18th centuries in the British and American Empires he was taking people from West Africa on his ship to the new world to South Carolina to be sold into slavery and halfway across the ocean he encountered a storm and he heard from The Wailing of one of the people that was to be sold into slavery the

sounds and he took out an envelope and he wrote on the back of this envelope the words to a song I once was lost and now I'm found I once walked Down an old Street and I'm walking now on a new Street and in one moment his life was changed and the storm passed and Legend tells us that he turned his ship around and he went back to Africa and he released all of the people who were still alive and then he took his ship to a place in England called Bristol and gave up being

a slave ship captain and became the most Ardent spokesman for the abolition of of Slavery and was almost single-handedly responsible for ending this horrible nefarious hideous practice of selling human beings and it all happened in One Moment One instant one Quantum moment any of us can change our lives in one moment and reverse the old Street and begin walking on a new street so the San Diego children's choir we so proud to have you come out here and conclude this program on wishes fulfilled and they're going to sing for you Amazing Grace [Applause] [Music] am

gra sweet the sound [Music] that lost but now I am found [Music] Was that my heart to fear and Gra [Music] my that [Music] gra [Music] the [Music] first through ders TOs and SNES I have [Music] already me sa us far and will lead me home [Music] [Music] intention one want more for others than You want for yourself want more for others whatever it is that you perceive to be missing whatever health problems that you may have whatever addictions you're struggling with whatever lack of uh love that you have in your life whatever lack of

peace peace that you have with your aunts and your uncles or your parents or your in-laws want the peace that you seek for yourself more for them want it more for them that is how we create this Level of Consciousness secondly think from the end begin to see yourself surrounded by the people and the events and the things that you would like to have only see yourself you're having a problem with an ADD addiction see yourself as addiction free see yourself if you'd like to have if you'd like to if there's a car that you

want my son was perfect at this Sans I mean he's just so good at this because there's a certain car that he wanted It's yellow and he not he didn't just bug me about it every day which they all do and all kids will do that but he saw himself he got a picture of it he put it on his computer it's the background of his of his computer this yellow whatever it is all right I call it the school bus I told him I was going to put cab fairs on the side of it

but that's what he wanted and then he saw him and then he went down and he drove it and it was A used car and he got on the internet and he just saw himself in it he could not see himself in it you know young we call this just persistence and being a pain in the rear end often times but it's not that at all what it is is young people have this instant knowing and awareness that I can create what I want for myself in my life and the way that I do it

is I act as if it's already here and you just and almost like they won't be they won't Be denied it that's what intention is it's not that Pitbull attitude it's that awareness that I am thinking from the end it's already here because everything that you think is missing from your life is already here the third of these doesn't is to be an appreciator in your life be an appreciator look look for that which is valuable rather than worthless look you go out and you buy a house and 10 years later we say it appreciates

in value what does that mean What does it mean that that a house appreciates it is more what valuable it's more Val same thing with you if you're an appreciator you have more value what could be more valuable than being connected to Source Four stay in rapport with Source energy stay in Rapport your job here is to be in a state of harmony with this constantly reminding yourself is this how my source thinks five Resistance understand this about resistance every thought that you have that is other than that which you emanated from is resistance every

unkind thought every uncreative thought every thought of judgment every thought of fear every thought of depression every thought of it can't happen all resistance so if you say well easy for him he can talk about this but I can't that's resistance you're right absolutely even If you think all of this is a bunch of nonsense you're absolutely right you're absolutely because for you that's what you believe and if you believe that the universal Source will help you to fulfill that belief sixth is what I talked about many times in the program contemplate yourself as surrounded

by the conditions which you want to produce contemplate yourself that because the way you are one with Source you are always one with Source you are one with All of its principles all of those faes you are one with it it can't be anything other than it is neither can you seven understand the art of allowing allowing means taking the path of least resistance every time you have a thought that doesn't that that has resistance in it what you have done is you have created an absence of allowing you have to you have to almost

think like here I am here and here's Source how much energy can I pull from it how much Energy can I pull from it are you pulling energy from Source or are you are you away from it allow it allow yourself eight practice radical humility you are not this body that you are in you are not this mind that you are in you are not any of the possessions that you have you are a Divine Source nine be in a constant state of gratitude be grateful for everything that shows up everything stay in a state

of of being generous and Grateful in your life because what could be more generous than that which has allowed you to come from the Infinite Source to this material world and back 10 keep in mind that you can never resolve a problem by condemning it any problem that you have when you use shame you are using the lowest energy that's out there in the universe you cannot sh came your way into higher Consciousness into Source energy 11 play The Match Game Play The Match Game always ask yourself am I matched up with the field of

intention and finally meditate make it a practice in your life meditation is essential because it is your way of staying Connected To Source what is the only thing in the universe that can't be divided you cannot divide God everything else has an up down north south east west male female right wrong Black White alive Dead everything comes in dichotomies except for silence silence you cut it in half what do you get more silence cut it in half again more silence cut Source in half just more Source you can't divide it meditation stay stay in the

Gap many of our greatest thinkers have spoken about the power of imagination William Blake said that what is now proved was once only Imagined now think about the importance of that if you want to have something show up in your life the kind of person you would like to become manifest something new into your life something powerful whatever it might be you obviously must first be able to imagine it your imagination this is yours and yours alone you can place anything into your imagination that you want to place there independent of what anybody else says

about it independent of what your Senses tell you independent of all the evidence that may be to the contrary you can place into your imagination and I am that represents what you would like to attract into your life and make it come into fruition Einstein's most famous quote one of his most famous observations he said imagination is more important than knowledge knowledge is limited imagination encircles the world and in order to experience it you Have to experience it in your imagination as an I am but you must be able to feel it our feelings are

the things that take place in our body it says Neville says and I have this on next to my bed where I live in my make your future dream a present fact by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled so whatever it is that you would like to experience in your life this remember your imagination is yours everything that now exists was once Imagined therefore everything that is going to exist must first Be Imagined okay Henry David throw had probably the greatest definition of success that I have ever heard he said if you advance confidently

in the direction of your own dreams and Endeavor to live the life which you have imagined you will meet with a success unex expected in common hours it will chase after you if you can place into your imagination what it is that you Would like to attract and begin to feel it listen to Neville this is one of my most favorite quotes from The Power of awareness that which you feel yourself to be you are and you are given that which you are so assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession

of your wish and your wish must be realized so live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be every feeling makes a subconscious Impression and unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature it must be expressed your feelings are different from your thoughts your feelings are what you experience in your body the dominant of two feelings is the one expressed I am healthy is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy I am healthy says I feel healthy and I feel healthy I

feel great I don't determine if I am well on the basis of what it says on a piece of Paper or on the basis of what somebody else out there tells me I live my life feeling within my body that I am strong I am capable I am able and that is not just something that I say it's not just an affirmation an affirmation is an intellectual exercise this is a spiritual knowing within that I am well I am content I am prosperous but the words that Neville used there are the subconscious every feeling that

you have makes a subconscious Impression upon your body and upon your awareness now you you need to understand the subconscious mind of yours your subconscious mind rules your life 96 to 97% of everything that you do is done as a result of your subconscious mind and when your subconscious mind gets programmed it goes ahead and responds to whatever it is your conscious mind has placed into it I was 18 years old I was in the United States Navy for four years and They sent me to a school in Banbridge Maryland to become a Radioman and

a cryptographer and we spent an hour a day every day for the first three or four weeks we were there on a typewriter learning Morris code okay and my conscious mind had to program my subconscious mind now this subconscious mind of yours is operating all the time you're sitting here watching a a television show you got up you picked up your remote control you Turned the channel on you got dressed you ate at lunch you went to the bathroom you go to work you get into your car you drive to work you put you don't

think about what I'm going to do everything that is going on in your life everything everybody in here in this room you know you got here through your subconscious mind you didn't have to think about every single thing that you were doing but there was a time when you did in order to learn that this habitual Subconscious mind of yours rules your life so I'm 18 years old I'm taking Morris code here's the alphabet little bit of it anyway that's a through P check it out that's 53 years ago and my subconscious mind is still

keeping track of the d d da you're doing the same thing only you don't use Morris code but you programmed your subconscious mind with did I can't do That did I'm not very attractive did I'm overweight I can't do make things happen and it's did it's still there 53 years later you and you go through your life with this subconscious programming with uh with an awareness that you are not in charge you're not able to extend or transcend this uh this way of of thinking this subconscious mind of yours is most impacted by your feelings

a change of feeling is a change of Destiny a change Of feeling is a change of Destiny write it down sck it on the wall next to your bed if you came into where I sleep you would see that I look at that all the time I want to practice putting into my subconscious mind the Assumption of the feeling of what it is that I would like to attract into my life as if it already existed and to feel it not just to think it but to feel it Neville's law of assumption says this if

this assumption About what you would like to become is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling the attainment of your ideal is absolutely inevitable you must first assume the feeling of a wish fulfilled in all aspects of your life I appeared on The Tonight Show many years ago several times quite a few times and I remember coming home from The Tonight Show and I was walking along the beach and they had taped the show the night before and I was out for a Walk walk and a woman who lived in uh the Northeast stopped

me and she said didn't I see you last night on how could you be here I said well I flew the Redeye and I was walking along and she said you know we're moving down here she said um what are the people like here what's it like and I said to her I said well what do they like where you live she said well she said I I live in a very big city and she said uh they're very Pushy and people are not very kind and they don't have time for you and she said

uh it's really not very pleasant she said that's one of the reasons I'm leaving there I said well that's pretty much what you're going to find here that's basically what the people are like here on the way back on the same day someone else who had seen me the night before on The Tonight Show who had lived in the midwest stopped me and asked me almost The same question she said you live here I said yes she said what my husband and I are moving here and we're looking for school she said what are the

people like here what's it like here I said what are they like in in h Chicago where you live she said oh she said it's the Midwest she said people are very friendly they're open they open their homes to you they're very loving they're very kind she said it's a wonderful place he said I love that I'm Going to really miss that I said that's pretty much what you're going to find here it's what you expect it's what you think about that expands it's what Emerson taught us the the ancestor to every action is a

thought change your thoughts and you change your world change your expectations and you change around what you begin to manifest and see showing up in your life so I want to summarize some of these thoughts and There are so many change your thoughts based upon the wisdom of The Da and your life will change there's many principles to live by in the da first remind yourself that there is no way to happiness happiness is the way bring happiness to all that you do you accomplish much by trying less it's just it's so inconsistent isn't it

with what we lived in the Western world but the less you try when I go out and swim in the ocean and I do it almost every day I try to do between 30 and minutes and an hour every day being out there in that ocean and I just get out there and if I try less my arms just seem to know what to do and the breathing just all works and it's all and I can swim all day as soon as I try as soon as I struggle as soon as I try the minute

that I move myself into trying it's like if I were to take this Little cap here and drop it right there and say I'm going to try to pick this up I'm going to try to pick this up this is what LSU was speaking about so all of this all of this all of this all of this all of this this I'm trying I'm really trying I'm really trying all of this is called in reality not picking it up that's what that's called not picking it up but when I just get easy and do less

see yourself the da says in everyone you encounter a great lesson Every single being especially the ones that we read about who we told are our enemies see yourself in them know that whoever they are wherever they live they want what we want they want what I want they want to be at peace they don't want to be always struggling they don't want to be sick they just want to be loved whoever they are I know the skepticism of that it's like yes but all of the yes buts but if they got it too see

Lau wasn't speaking to well some are going To get this and some probably won't he was speaking to all of us trust in others the D says to know what's best for themselves trust in that trust in the pliability the flexibility of your babies God those little babies they're so great when they're like you know two weeks old you can take their foot put it behind their neck stick it around here like this put it in their mouth they're so flexible I mean you could do anything you pick them up you turn them upside Down

you watch them when they starting to learn to walk and they run run run crash they go down into the walls and all of this and you think oh my God this kid will never walk again up they go and they don't trust trust in their flexibility live without attachment and be generous be strong by bending by bending we need to learn this in our lives we need to learn this in the world it's not so important to be right it's so much more important When you have a choice to be right or to be

kind always pick kind always pick kind practice radical humility live low live low like the ocean stay low and all the streams will come to it that's why it's so powerful because it doesn't Lord anything over anyone and rather than looking for miracles see everything as miraculous everything in your Life one of my little girls her name is Sky and when she was just a baby she would um love to sit on my uh stomach when we were in the swimming pool or in the in the ocean and she would just sit up there and

she would love to sing and when she would sit up on there we would sing this song and I would put my arms in the water and she would be sitting up there she's a year old year and a half old and she would laugh she was always Full of laughter and beauty and as we would sing this song I thought it had so much meaning it had so much sense and the song goes like this most of you know it we would sing row row row and as we would sing row row row I

would think that just means to me just go out there into your life and be and work and do because when you're born Khalil jaban the Lebanese poet said when You are born your work is placed in your heart there's something that you came here to do there's no mistakes in this universe the only mistakes are the mistakes that we have that we are separate from the Perfection into which we were created row row row your boat don't row my boat don't row somebody else's boat don't try to row a boat that somebody else tells

you you should be Rowing row live work your own boat and and how do you row this boat always gently always gently always with love always with peace always with kindness row your boat that way row your boat gently down the stream don't row up the stream it takes away all of your energy and it'll just create a counterforce of frustration for you get in the Stream of life and r throw your boat gently down the stream with the currents of life with the great Creator merrily always with joy always with cheerfulness merily merrily merily

merrily and you know Theo put it this way he said our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake because life is but a dream let's sing it together just for a minute together ready row r r your boat gently down the stream merily merily merily merily that's all it is it's just a dream God bless you and God bless You I'd like to end this program on excuses be gone with a story it's a story I heard many many years ago and I've never forgotten it's a story of a uh an older

woman who lived by the side of a river up in the mountains the Himalayas and she was a Divine soul and she carried with her bread in a sack and one day she was sitting by the edge of the river where she lived and as She was looking looking at the riverbed she noticed a precious stone not just any precious stone but a precious stone like this big and she picked it up and realized that with this precious stone and its value she would have a lock on abundance and prosperity for the rest of her

life such was its value and as she was sitting there she put the stone back in her bag and and a man a traveler an itinerate traveler came along and noticed her sitting by The edge of the river and he asked her he said I'm hungry I've had nothing to eat could I have something to eat she said of course and she reached into her bag and she took out a crust of bread and handed it to him as she did this The Traveler noticed the precious stone gleaming and he said to her I I'd

like to have that could I have that please and she said of course and she reached into the bag and she handed it to him Now he knew being poor that this was the answer to his success he had always wanted and the abundance and the prosperity and he left and the next day he came back and he talked to the woman he said I'm giving you this Stone back he said but I would like you to give give me something even more precious than this Stone and she said what would that be he said

I would like you to give me What you have inside of you that allowed you to give me that stone and that's the message of excuses beone God bless you Namaste thank you thank if you would like to accomplish something you must first expect it from yourself every one of you you are a spark that can grow until you recognize that you truly Are Divine beings because in every moment of your life and every moment of your lives you have this choice you can either be a host to God or a hostage to Your Ego

it's your call God bless you God bless you thank you thank you thank you thank you [Music] explore new worlds and new ideas through programs like this made available for everyone through contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you thank you [Music] way back 800 years ago there lived a little man who gave up all of his possessions he lived in a little village in uh in uh Italy near Florence called the CCE and we named one of our most Famous cities in America after him his name was Francesco or has he became known

later after his passing St Francis of aisi and I went to Ai and I had Miracles that took place for me in visiting aisi on several occasions and St Francis was one of these people who created a prayer that is perhaps the most uh well-known prayer uh on the planet today certainly one of them and when I wrote a spiritual Solution to every problem I took the first seven lines of this famous prayer and I made them into a chapter of the book and I'd like to share those with you here in this program right

now those seven lines because they represent an 800e old technology if you will for bringing a spiritual solution to anything in your life that constitutes a problem the first line in this famous prayer says Lord make me an instrument Of thy peace how can I become an instrument of thy peace the ego is the part of us that wants to be at war that wants to defeat that wants to collect that wants to be better than that wants to always get more the sacred or the highest part of ourselves is the part of us that

just wants to be at peace how can I become an instrument of Peace not someone who's looking for peace but someone who Delivers it there are opportunities every day I was in a gas station just a few days ago and in this gas station they had a car wash and there was a young boy he was uh maybe 18 or 19 years old and he didn't speak English very well and he couldn't figure out how to work the car wash uh and he had put $2 in and apparently it required $3 and he was in

there waiting to uh pay for his uh his car wash and trying to get an answer to why he couldn't get it to work And I had just gotten some gasoline and I walked in and there was this man behind the counter berating this young boy and humiliating him and talking to him and because he didn't understand the language he talked louder to him you know how people do that you know if if someone doesn't understand you you say what I said is and they say I don't understand and then you say it even louder

um well that's what they were he was doing to this young boy and he was And I saw this is an opportunity right here in this instant to be an instrument of peace and I put my arm around the young man and I said come with me and I walked out to the machine and I took a dollar and I put it into the and and he walked away and he was just so happy one tiny little incident these kinds of things I suggest to you that you take this day and look for five occasions

to be an instrument of peace and you'll find one when you're on your way home on The freeway you'll find somebody who isn't going to let you get in you find somebody who doesn't want to let you pass and instead of uh you know giving them a hard time or being angry at them try sending something called peace their way there's a wonderful line that I have on the dashboard of my car it says I can choose peace rather than this and it's always a reminder that no matter how I'm exper what I'm experiencing in

my life I want to be an instrument of peace A 92-year-old petite well poised and proud lady who's fully dressed each morning by 8:00 92 years old with her hair fashionably quaffed and makeup perfectly applied even though she's legally blind and moved to a nursing home today her husband of 70 years recently passed away making the move necessary after many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of this nursing home she smiled sweetly when she told Her room was now ready as she maneuvered her walker to the elevator I provided a visual description of her

tiny room including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on the window I love it she stated with the enthusiasm of an 8-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy but Mrs Jones you haven't even seen the room yet just Wait that doesn't have anything to do with it she said happiness is something you decide on ahead of time whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged it's how I arrange my mind when you change the way you look at things even if you're legally blind the things

you look at change God bless you and thank You we are very near to Greatness one step and we can be safe can't you take the one Leap just one one lead and from A Course in Miracles I leave you with these beautiful words there is a way of living a way of living in the world that is not here although it seems to be you do not change appearance though you smile more frequently your forehead is Serene your Eyes are quiet you walk this path as others walk nor do you seem to be distinct

from them although you are indeed thus can you serve them while you serve yourself a new way of living to be in spirit thank you for watching God bless you I want to close this beautiful presentation on the da Cecilia with a poem that was written by a woman her name is Naomi long maget she's from Detroit went to Wayne State University she was named the poet laurat of Detroit an acclaimed African-American poet listen listen to these words it's sums up all that I've been saying I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you such

watchful nurturing may do it harm let the soil rest from so much Digging and wait until it's dry before you water it the Leafs inclined to find its own Direction give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself much growth is stunted by too careful prodding too eag tenderness the things we love we have to learn to leave alone thank you