How to Let Go of the Past and Awaken Now with Dr. Wayne Dyer

If you love those who love you, what virtue lies in that? Even the morally weak love those who love them. And if you are good to those who are good to you, what virtue lies in that? Even the morally weak do that. Love your enemies. Be good to them. Share with them without expecting anything in return. Then your reward will be rich and you will be sons of the most high. He is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be compassionate like your father. How much of that do we practice on our planet? Divine love

is is a is a love that we have inside of us because it's the only thing we have to give away. That's all we can give away. Again Patanjali when you are steadfast this is who Jesus was this is who was this is who Shams of Tabre was This is who Muhammad was this is who Buddha was when you are steadfast which means it's there's no ego when you are steadfast in your abstension of thoughts of harm arm directed towards yourself and others that all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. That's

who St. Francis was. And some of you, some of you I Recognize and know, so some of you may have heard part of it. Um, but I never give the same talk twice anyway. So, and uh and if you've heard it before, you're hearing it again because you're you haven't got it yet. So, otherwise, you wouldn't be here because everything is perfect. Um it's um it's basically the the essence of um what I speak about in in uh wishes fulfilled is the idea that There is a um there's a higher place um there's a place

uh that I call higher consciousness or extraordinary awareness extraordinary levels of awareness and it seems to me that The problem that most of us face in attempting to uh really fulfill our dharma, our uh our real mission here on this planet and what we're doing here is um is that we have been raised to Believe in so much in our limitations. And we we just haven't been raised to believe that we are God, that we that we are pieces of God. Um it's all over the it's all over the spiritual literature whether it's the Bhagavad

Gita or the or the Daqing or or the Quran or the the Old Testament and and the uh the Torah, the book of Torah or the uh or the New Testament and the words of Jesus. It's it's it's all throughout it. You know, you've all been Told you are God. Um but we've all been raised to believe or most of us have been raised to believe that um uh that's something outside of us. That's uh and that we've created these great organizations. I always love Gandhi's comment when they ask him about Christianity. He said, "I

I don't very much like your Christianity." He said, "But I love your Christ." Making a huge distinction between, you know, I used to say years Ago that And they ask me about organized religion that that a truth is a truth until you organize it and then it becomes a lie because so much of the problem so much of the of the difficulty the struggle the conflict that we see on our planet is all done in the name of God which is so absurd isn't it and yet that's what's going on and as I told you

yesterday um in in studying just just the 13th Century uh for the last 10 days or so in preparation for uh what we're going to do in Ephesus. Um it's just it's just one big conflict after another. And it's I mean it's not just conflict the way um you know it's it's not just wars. I mean, it's like it's it's things like crusades that are just I mean, so vicious and you going through village After village after village and just if there's 60,000 people just killing every single one of them for God so that God

would be happier if we do that just and I was talking to my friend this morning, Elizabeth. We having breakfast and uh she said, "Well, at least we're more civilized now than we were then. we don't go around doing that. And I said, well, this we've just created newer ways to uh and newer terms to define our Abilities. I mean, our technology is almost always based on uh on weaponry and and killing each other. And now we've just we just have to push buttons and air conditioned booths and we're much more civilized, but we can

knock out millions of people at a time. At least in those days, you had to go kill every one of them, you know. Now it's just uh so it's no we're not and the 20th century was the was the bloodiest century in the history of humanity. More People killed in those in those wars in World War I, World War II. So uh and I really feel that um I incarnated into this planet um to do something about that. And in in writing uh you'll the uh this whole uh past summer I can see clearly now

as I look through the things that were happening to me and I'll be sharing some of those with you a little bit later this week the um the things that I was uh being directed to do. Um, and I I Don't think that I'm any more special than anyone else and and and deserve any more credit for any of it. I just seem to um I seem to have been selected for some reason to uh I call it ascended master training. In fact, I I I read an entire book by St. Germaain called ascended master

training. And every time I would read it, I'd say, "Well, I've been in this." Um, it doesn't say mastery. I'm I'm not talking about that at all. I I haven't mastered any of this. Um but it was um I mean I I've been at at this since I was a little boy and I and realizing it and even though I've been um encountering difficulties with organizations and with institutions and with customs and so on, all things which I've not paid too much attention to. Um it's just there's just something in me and I think about

it cuz Um my mother to told me the um the day that I was conceived because she was um she was basically raped um by my father um in one of his regular uh things that he did when uh when my mother was with He um he would come in drunk and then you know they were married so it's not considered rape but he would force himself on her and she had had two children Um one uh just who was three and a half and one who was only 15 months old and at that time

um when I was conceived was only seven months old. Um, so I was conceived on the 1st of September 1939 and she remembers it and um, she was horrified that she was pregnant again. There was a depression going on. It was a crazy time in the world. And I don't know if any of you know what that date was, the significance of that date, September the 1st, 1939. Anybody know what happened on that day? It was the beginning of World War II. Yeah. It was the day that Hitler invaded Poland and uh World War II

started. And u and I've always had a sense of uh that you know I know I I know we show up here uh not in the ways we we we have a tendency to think that this is you know It's our mother and our father and that's how it all works and and but I but I really know better. I have eight children. Um I really know better. If any of you have read Wisdom of the Ages, um the last chapter in Wisdom of the Ages, I talk about the conception of my last daughter, which

was an absolute impossibility. There was just no way that that child could get into this world. We had seven children, five and eight years. Um I was 50 years old. Uh There was just um and we were in a place called Brisbane in a in Australia and at the Hilton Hotel and it was 4:00 in the morning. I didn't know I was going to tell this but I I often tell her when she's in the room and she goes crazy. Her name is Sage. Sage Akis. And um it was 4:00 in the morning. It was

actually 407. Uh, as I looked at the because there was just something Strange going on in the room. It was like my wife was in the bed next to me with um our uh son who was uh she was nursing. He was only a year and a half or so old. Um I was uh in the other bed with my daughter Serena who was like three. She's here in the room probably just gagging that I'm telling this story. Are you in here, Serena? Did you or did you leave? Oh, there she is. Yeah. You're not

throwing up or anything about To She's now 27. And um and all of a sudden the uh the furniture is uh being rearranged in the room and my wife is up and she's takes she takes uh our son and puts him in the bed and then picks up Serena by herself and this three and a half year old child and puts her in the bed and then gets into bed with me. Now this is something she had never done in her life. So she proceeded to get into bed next to Me and start doing things

that she had never ever done. I mean, when all of those things happened, that was me doing that, you know, moving things around and trying to talk her into this and and all of that. That was not her it was not her nature. And um and my wife had had uh surgery and she had had one ovary removed and she had had a half of the other one removed because she had had a tumor on it. She hadn't had a period in 10 Years because she had been either pregnant or nursing for the previous nine

or 10 years. So she was always she used to say in one decade I went from a a 30 a 32 long no 32 C to a 32 long or something you know it's like 34 I'm sorry I don't mean to insult her anyway um but she always had a great sense of humor about it. So, I mean, the idea of her getting pregnant was absolutely impossible. But just to be absolutely certain that that didn't Happen. I just withdrew at that uh moment, you know, to make sure. And um I was going to call my

daughter withdrew. So, like what what what happened there? I mean it's like and it's we this is where I when I was speaking the other morning about um you get us you get to a place in your life where you get to begin to realize that there is something bigger moving the these pieces around and that who we are are are not really the product of our Parents you know that they're just sort of intermediaries in this whole thing and that um and so when I think about when you think about when you came into

this world um you came in at the time that you opted to come into this world and it's a hard thing to get. My my daughter Serena sitting over there, I used to uh say to her when she would get upset with me because, you know, she used to have this whole line, you know, it's like if I would raise my voice, I wonder what all those people out there would think of Mr. Positive if they could see him here this morning. You know, she'd ask ask her sister, "Would you buy a book from uh

someone who yells at his 11-year-old daughter?" I wouldn't. So, uh but anyway, you get you you you get to this uh this sense where you begin to realize that there's something moving these pieces around and That it's uh and that it's not you. You know, my friend Ramdas often says, "All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I'm finally somebody, but it isn't me." And that um you know, when we look at quantum physics and and and and look at um you know where we began, we realize that uh that we're not really here

as human beings having he having a spirit. We're we're spiritual Beings, infinite spiritual beings. And it's such a hard concept for us to get to wrap our our heads around and our our minds around this idea. In the Dao Ching, LSU says that you're doing nothing. You're just being done. All of us are just being done. And in reading Roomie and in studying what I've been studying and in writing what I've been writing the past couple of months, it's um this enormous awareness has has come over me that Um that really our mission is really

nothing more than to just reconnect to that source from which we all originated. You know TS Elliott said we shall not cease from exploration but 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 to know it to absolutely know it. And um he was speaking about Death and when we die when we leave our bodies um I'm not here today in this week. I'm speaking about something very different that we can we can while we're in these bodies

we can there is a there is something available to us. Wishes fulfilled was my effort to just um speak to that and to try to delineate it and to make it specific about the kinds of things that we can do to reconnect to our source and to to know to come to Know God not as something external to ourselves but to know this highest place within ourselves to absolutely know it. So, what I encourage you to do in the next um week on this boat is to um one day by yourself or with someone that

you're close to, someone that uh that you may have, you know, come on this trip with and go to the stern. That's the back. the side, the place that isn't going Forward. That's that one back there. And to just um go there and and lean over the rail, if there is one there, this is the first time I've been on this ship, but there's usually a railing back there, and just uh observe what you see happening and just look down at the water. Now, I'm telling you, I did this uh I I was on on

board ship for almost two years in the Navy when I was 18, 19, And almost 20. And I spent a lot of hours late at night by myself looking at that big ocean. I was I was in the Pacific Ocean and uh it just goes forever, you know. I saw a Discovery Channel story of uh how the earth was formed, you know, going back billions of years and so on. And they said these oceans were formed because it rained for a billion years. That's a long rain, isn't it? Rain for a billion years to fill

this Planet with the why, I'm not sure. I mean, they were explaining all of that, but uh so you look at this huge ocean that we're in and uh and just look down at the water and ask yourself what do you see as you're looking at the water just please try to do this um and what you will see is uh something that has a name that we call it in in English it's called the Wake the wake and ask yourself three questions about the wake but this is a metaphor or for your life because

this ship is a symbol of your life. You are this big physical thing that is moving through the through the atmosphere, moving through the world. And so just imagine yourself as the ship and you're looking down in there and ask yourself these three questions. First of all, what is the wake? What is it that you're looking at? You'll see that white bubbly Water and you'll see it. Uh, and you just keep looking at it and looking at it. You can stay out there for hours and hours. And the I'll give you the answer. The the

answer is the wake is the trail that is left behind. Okay, that's what it is. And it's hardly anyone in here can dispute that. Is that correct? I mean, we all have agreement that the wake is the trail that is left behind. Boats Going this way, the wake is back there and it's just a trail that is left behind. Then the second question to ask yourself is um what's driving the boat? That is what's making this boat go in this direction? And I'll also give you the answer to that. that um it's the present moment

energy being generated by the engine and nothing more That is driving the boat. And the third question to ask yourself about this and the most important question to ask is it possible for the wake to drive the boat. Okay. So the the wake is a trail that is left behind. Can the trail that is left behind make the boat go forward? So now you have to look at your life and all of the things that have Transpired in your life and ask yourself what's making your life go in the direction that it's going. Well, it's

the present moment energy that is being generated by your mind, by your thoughts that is making your and one of the great ironies I've been studying uh uh some of the teachings of a man named Bashar. Anybody in here ever hear of Bashar? Fascinating kind of a weird guy, but uh but very very interesting information. And I'm going to be in one of the satsangs I'm going to give you a couple of readings from he's channeling very much like Abraham Hicks and so on channeling information I want to he talks about these different dimensions of

being and he calls them densities. Um so in this third dimension or the third density we have um something called cause and effect. So you do this and it creates This. Okay? And we have a tendency to believe that when I do this, it makes this happen. And then he said we move into the fourth density. I'm not going to go into all of this now, but into the fourth density in which there is no cause and effect in which every single moment is disconnected from the next moment and that the present is not created

by the Past. This is just something to really ponder because it's going to get really good when we get to this out saying the present is not created by the past. The past is created by the present in the fourth density in the fourth in the fourth dimension. And that's the dimension where you leave the world of cause and effect. And you realize that everything that ever happened to you up until this Moment happened to you in the present. And in quantum physics teaches us that there is no such thing as time and it does

that it's all one especially in the world of spirit in the world of God it's all one then the past is something that we are creating now and the idea this exciting exquisite idea that you can change the past by becoming something different in Present becomes a reality. Now you're all saying that's just too far out. I can't do that. That's just too weird. I can't do that. But the truth of it is for onethird of your entire life here on this planet while you are asleep, you're able to do just what I just described.

You can create any past that you want. And you have left this dead thing laying on the Bed. It's just you've just left. Life has left it. It's just there and you're off someplace else creating the past that you want, right? And creating the future that you want. I had a dream recently in which my wife was waiting in a van with five of our children who are the age they are now. 30s, you know, 33, 31, 29, 27, 25, 23, 19, 14, 12, 11. It just goes forever And ever. I'd have eight children. Okay.

So anyway, they she the van was and all of them uh were in there and I was coming out to meet her to get into the van with her. She was driving. We were going to go someplace and I was saying goodbye and telling each one of my children in this room who were three and five and seven and nine and 11. And then I left them in went from that moment right into this moment where They were 25 27 29 31 38 all in the same dream. It was all and the night the interesting

thing about these dreams is that all of it made perfect sense. You relate to that? Can you see what I'm saying? that where higher consciousness is something in which we can create a whole new way of being. When we get past and then he talks that's the fourth the fourth density or the fourth dimension where you begin to realize that there is No cause and effect that everything is just one moment is not connected to the next. What you did a month ago is not connected to what you are doing today. Even though this linear

mind of yours has convinced you that it's absolutely why this happened, the fact is in a quantum sense everything is being recreated every moment. Every moment your whole body is being recreated every moment. Every moment. And now this may Not seem like an important thing for you to to know, but when you get a hold of this idea, it's like one of the elements that you need in order to reach a higher level of consciousness is you've got to give up your personal history. You've just got to give it up. I have a quote over

here from uh Castana. He said, "Um, one day I finally Realized that I no longer needed a personal history and just like drinking, I gave it up and that and only that has made all the difference in my life." If you can just give up this idea that what happened to you in the past is why you are the way you are. It's akin to saying that the thing that is moving this ship is the wake, which is nothing more than a trail that is left behind. And you can change That wake, which we don't

think we can do. But remember, for onethird of your life, you're able to do it. And to me, higher consciousness is what Theorough said. It's becoming a waking dreamer. It's what an alchemist is. Someone who can An alchemist isn't someone who takes uh something that is bad and throws it out and then brings something good In. An alchemist is someone who takes something that is bad, like lead, and turns it into gold. It's what Francesco St. Francis said when he where there is hatred let me bring love where there is darkness let me bring light

in other words become an alchemist change being able to change what is into that which is aligned with your source your source of being. All right so I know that sounds a little out there and far out. I Want to uh do one little reading from Roomie since the theme of this whole um conference this whole week is in the in the trail of our uh our ancestors and being in these places where you're going to go when you go into Athens and uh and look at some of these things that were built 2,000 years

ago when you're in uh when you're in Rome, which I hope you'll spend a few days in. and uh and and and Roomie of course was in the in the 13th century. So let me read Something to you. It's from the the Mathnowi. That's the poem I mentioned to you yesterday. That is 64,000 lines long. How would you like to write a poem 64,000 lines long, 45,000 verses, and some consider it the the greatest thing ever written, you know, like about half the people on the planet, maybe a third of the people on the planet

consider it, you know, divine teachings. So, this is uh it's on something called the Purification of the soul and then I'll move into something you're a little more familiar with. It's the story of the discussion between the Byzantines who were considered to the be the people who had nothing and the Chinese who were considered to be the people who were educated and uh you know way beyond the Byzantines. The Byzantines were like these low-level people. There's a lot in this and it's a little bit long, not too Long. It take a few minutes. So the

chi this is from directly from the uh matnoe. The Chinese said we are the best artists. The Byzantine said to us belong the power and the perfection. I will put you on to trial said the sultant and I will see which of you is right in your presentation. The Chinese and the Byzantines started to discuss but the Byzantines left the debate. The Chinese then said, "Give us a room and give the Byzantines one, Too." There were two rooms whose doors faced each other. The Chinese took one and the Byzantines the other. The Chinese asked the

king to give them a hundred colors. The king opened his treasure in order that they might have exactly what they wanted. Each morning through his generosity, more colors were taken from his treasures by the Chinese. The Byzantines declared, "No tint or color is necessary for our work. We need only to take the rust off of the Walls." They closed the door and started to polish the walls, which became as clear and pure as the sky. There is a distance between colorful and the absence of color. The color is like the clouds. The absence of color

is like the moon. Whatever light and splendor you see in the clouds, know that they come from the stars, the moon and the sun. When the Chinese finished their task, they started to beat their drums with joy. The king came in and saw the Paintings. This vision, when he saw it, ravished his mind. Then he went to the Byzantines. They took away the curtain which was separating the two rooms. The reflection of the paintings of the Chinese struck the walls which had been purified. Everything the sultan had seen in the room of the Chinese was

more splendid here. It ravaged his entire being. The Byzantines, oh my father, are the Sufis. They are not scholarly. They Have no books, no airition, but they have polished their hearts and they have purified them from desire, from avidity, from avarice and hatred. The purity of the mirror is without doubt the heart which receives innumerable images. This Moses keeps inside him the infinite form without form of the reflected invisible in the middle of his heart. And although his form is not contained in the sky or the firmament, neither in The sphere or the stars, nor

on the globe that reposes for the Pisces, for all these things are limited and known. Know that the mirror of the heart has no limits. Here the understanding becomes silent, otherwise it will lead you into error. For the heart is with God, or more accurate still, the heart is God. The reflection of each image shines eternally from the heart alone in the multiplicity as much as outside it. Those who have polished their hearts Have escaped from the perfumes and the colors they contemplate. Beauty ceaselessly they have abandoned the form and the shell of knowledge. They

have deployed the flag of certitude. Since the forms of the eight paradises have shown, they have found the tablets of their hearts to be receptive to them. From the firmament, from the starred sphere, and from the void, they receive 100 impressions. What impressions? What can I say? The vision of God Himself. I don't know. How does that make you? How does that I read that and I just want to cry. It's um it's the purification of the soul that I that that Roomie has uh placed in my heart. It's this idea that um we're all

just mirrors. We're all just reflections and and most of us don't understand our soul. And that's what I want to start This presentation out with. What is this thing called your soul? It's the um it's the invisibeness within you. See, we can't really get to this place where we move into extraordinary levels of consciousness. And let me use as I I I speak up here this um when I have my hand up here I'm speaking about elevated levels of consciousness in which all things are possible because right from the New Testament Jesus said it so

clearly with God all things are possible. Now I looked that up and that leaves nothing out. All things are possible. Instantaneous healings are possible. Peace on this planet is possible. I know it's possible. Peace in our hearts is possible. Manifesting anything we put our Attention on. Absolutely possible. I'm doing it all the time now. It's just one of the one of the weirder things in my life because all my life I just wanted so much I wanted to go after things and then now I don't even have to go after things and they're just there

and then I I get them and I don't even want them. I just pass them out and I've got all my kids over there who are so happy to help me to relieve me of any of this extra that comes into my life. But It's like it's like it's it's just well anyway extraordinary level of consciousness. And over here at my waist level when I use my hand this way I'm referring to ordinary ordinary levels of consciousness. Now you can't get here to this place where you move through ordinary because um I think it's like

Jesus put it this way. It's like be in this world. I am in this world. You know, be in this world. I really am in this world. I fill out the forms. I pay my taxes. I do all the things that you do at an ordinary, you know, ordinary levels of consciousness. You do it all. You know, obey the rules, get along, be nice to people, all of those things. But you're in this world, but you're not of this world. And the truth of it is that's true of every single person in this room and

everybody watching this. You are all in this world. And none of you are of this world. You're not of this world. I guarantee you, you're not of this world. My beautiful mother who got her family back together again after my father walked out on three little boys and my mother in middle of a depression, 1940 when I was born. um and never came back. I never made a phone Call. I only met him at his grave. Um many years after he died. Um and and she had to place myself and my next oldest brother in

an orphanage and uh and in foster homes and live a divided life. She worked as a candy girl selling candy at at Kresky's and five and 10 cent store in in in on the east side of Detroit and became a secretary at Chrysler and just worked and worked and worked to try to get her family back Together again. But I was 10 years in an orphanage and u and it was um it was what I signed up for just like my daughter Sage who signed up. It's like if you guys aren't going to get it

on, you know, then I'm going to just have to take care of this myself, I guess, because I'm coming here and you are the one that I've picked and you are the one that I picked. So, wake up and move, you know, get over there and get Going. You know, I know that sounds so silly, but there's like this whole awareness that uh it's like it's this is what Roomie has taught me. This is why I'm so poetic here today. So I guess because it's like it's it's it's just this awareness. It's all about surrender.

It's all about surrender. Every bit of it. It's about letting go of this ego, letting go of this body, letting go of your possessions, letting go of all of that, And really be understanding what it means to be in this world, but not of it. So my beautiful mother got us all back together again in 1949. And um I was just nine years old and and married uh my father again in a different body. Just same same guy in a different body. Guy who was drunk and didn't wasn't responsible and just but it was it

was the price she knew she had to pay in order to get her family back Together. Then that then he was gone after a while. But anyway, she struggled and worked and finally got us all back together. We lived in a box, tiny tiny little house. Um, five of us and and she worked all these years and and she just died just um just eight weeks ago. Yeah, it was a it's uh I just didn't think it would be very difficult. And uh and in truth, it isn't. I said this at at dinner last Night.

And it's like I actually envy her. I really do because she's in the mystery now. She she's she knows it. When we do Roomie in Ephesus, I will read to you um what he said about what he wanted said about him after he died. And I will read to you how he saved the city of Cona in Turkey, not too far from where we'll be in Ephesus. Uh, And having just um written the forward to a book that I really hope all of you read or have read, will read. It's Anita Morjani's uh, Dying to

Be Me. Uh, I won't go into it now because I'm just conscious of the time and I haven't even gotten started yet. We got all week though. So, my mother was 96 years old in her 97th year. And on July the 22nd, um, I was on in Hawaii and she played bingo two days Before. Um, but it was just and she knew because I talked to her about it every day how excited she must be. And she had read dying to be me. She was like telling everybody in this she was in a center for

assisted living for people in their 90s and so on. And she uh would make all of them read it and she'd read to them and like what are you afraid of? And it's just uh it's a wonderful book. wonderful Book. It's got a limited audience. It's only for people who are going to die. And I think it's the book that whenever someone does die and you go to a um a funeral that you'll take it because who knows what to say at a funeral, right? She was nice. You don't know what just you'll just take

this and and whoever it is that misses the person that is left will just be so grateful that you gave them this wonderful wonderful book. I wrote the Forward to it. Anyway, so my mother passed away on July the 22nd. And on July the 24th, they put her uh into a bag, her body into a bag, and they cremated her. And they gave us a little bag, a little a little vial of dust. Surely that's not my mother. Emily Dickinson, the famous American poet holding up a handful of dust. 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 summer's nimble mansion where bloom and bees fulfilled their oriental circuit, then ceased. like these. So if my mother is not this dust and the ashes that came from the body that she was in for the 96 years That she was on this planet, who is she? And it's the question you've got to be able to ask yourself and answer for yourself. And who you are is a question most people cannot answer. And because we can't answer it,

we accept what other people have told us who we are. And what other people have told us who we are comes from people who told them who they are because they couldn't figure out who they were Either because they were so terrified and so believing in what their senses told them that who you are is this thing called your body. Now I'm in a 72y old body today. I have been in a lot of bodies and so is my mother. I mean, I have pictures of my mother all over my apartment on the walls. You

know, there's a picture of her when she was six years old in 1922. There's a picture of her in 1928 when she moved from Canada to America And wrote a little poem about the election of 1928. Smith or Hoover, who will it be? Both are running for the presidency. Smith is the lean one. Hoover's the fat. My, such an uproar. Where are we at? That was my mother at 10. And she wrote a ton of poetry, beautiful poetry. So I see a picture of her at 10. I see picture of myself at 10. And I

see I remember being in a 20-year-old body and um and a 30-y old body and a 40-y old body and you can't find one cell of the body that I was in when I was 20 years old, 50 years ago. There's not one cell left. You go out there and I can't find it. It had all kinds of flowing stuff coming out of my head and uh you know, it's like uh it's gone. Instead, it's uh it's growing in my Ears. What's going on here? And in my nose. I mean, what what do I need

it there for? You know, Lasu said, "You're not doing anything. You're just being done." When you look at your body, you have a real sense of an awareness of that, don't you? When you look at your body, you know that, you know, I mean, you can fix them and you can fix change, but you know that like if they're drooping, it's like whatever. And it's Like if your hair turns a certain color, you can change the color of it. And and you can mask all of that, but you really know deep inside that you're not

doing anything. You're just being done. That's one of the things that the Dao says that uh the Dao is just another term for God for God. The Dao does nothing. It leaves nothing undone. Leaves nothing Undone. Makes the planets stay in alignment. The sun comes out. The oceans are filled. Life goes on. Fish reproduce themselves. roses show up and there's nobody out there doing anything. It does nothing. My son has mastered this, by the way. He's a Dowist master. He's 25. I say, "Sans, come on. Get help. Let's go do something. We got work to

do here. Come on." I do nothing. I leave nothing undone. He has a t-shirt that says, "Don't just do something. Stand there." So the question of who we are is um can't be answered in physical terms and it can't be answered with the senses. Your senses will lie to you. They will tell you something and it's just not true. You know, I mean, our senses even tell us right now that we're sitting still when we're hurling through this ocean, right, at 20 knots, but we're also so is the whole ocean hurling Through space at something

like 11 or 12,000 miles an hour. And it's also it's also orbiting around the sun and turning on its axis. So, it's turning orbiting and hurling all at the same moment. And your senses are saying, "I'm just sitting here." William Blake, the great English poet, 1777. To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. To hold eternity in the palm of your Hand and infinity in an hour. We are all led to believe a lie when we see with not through the eye which was born in a night

to perish in a night while the soul slept in beams of light. Your eyes were born in a night to perish in a night. You have not you don't see with your eyes. You have to see through Your eyes. The part of you that is processing what I'm saying here right now has no form to it. Has no beginning. It has no end. There's an infinite part of you. There's an invisible part of you. And until you're comfortable with it and know it and understand that it is the creator, the creation takes place through this

creative process in in within you called your mind, called your thoughts, called your spirit, called Your soul. And one of the things that I have learned is that it's it's it's necessary to understand what your soul is to follow your excitement. Now hear this. Your excitement is who you are. Just let that in. We're getting very philosophical. I love it when we get like this. Especially when I know we have lots of time so we can just take It, you know, just your excitement is who you are. You're not this body. my friend Ramdas. You

all know Ramdas. He lives on Maui with me and um I put something in one of my books called inspiration uh because he uh had a stroke in 1997 and he couldn't uh take care of himself anymore. And he had donated everything he'd ever earned to Uh charity to the Saber Foundation just to help little blind children in Nepal get eyesight and so on. his book be here now. He didn't take any royalties for it. He never was paid for any of his lectures. He just uh he was just one of those people. His teacher

in India neem Karoli Baba told him uh just serve people, trust God, serve people. Give give what you have away. Don't hold on to any of it. And he took It very seriously. His father didn't understand it. His father called him rum dum. So I put out a plea in my books and on the internet and so on and people came in and several million dollars came in for Ramdasi as a home. He just turned 80 in April. Um, and I was at his dinner and all so many of his devotees and just people that

have known him and he's very we're very very close. I love this man so much And he has trouble speaking now and he speaks a little slower but every time I do a seminar in Maui he comes out there and he speaks to them and he gets a standing ovation. He speaks slowly. He's in a wheelchair. So, we all went around the table and we were asked to say something to him on his 80th birthday and I gave a couple of lines from an Irish poet named William Butler Yates in a collection of poetry called

Sailing to Bzantium. I just talked about the Byzantines. I said Ramdas, an aged man is but a poultry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. Unless soul claps its hands and sings and louder sings for every tatter in its mortal dress. or just tattered coats on a stick. It's the Soul. It's this invisibeness. It's what causes you to feel passion. It's following your excitement. And it's something you can do at any time. And when you do, I guarantee you these two things. It will be effortless and you will always be supported. It's always an effort

when you are not following your excitement. What is it in here? What is That creative spark that just makes you want to do something or you just feel drawn to do it? And the more you pay attention to this spark, this inner excitement, the more it will it will support you and you'll find yourself doing amazing things like really amazing things. Here's what uh Patanjali the great uh 3rd century BC Indian scholar great beautiful soul Who was the uh the father of meditation one who taught me the japa meditation then the I am meditation. He

said when you are inspired, inspired means in spirit. When you are inspired, that means when you are following your excitement, when you are inspired by some great project, 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, and this is what I mean by being effortless. He said, "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 or I say were ever taught that you could become Because you were not raised to believe in your divinity. You were raised as as as roomie said in that thing I read between the Chinese and the Byzantines. You were raised to believe in your limitations and you don't know that within you you have God. You are God. God is not an external concept. It's what the ego has taught us that it is. So that if you can answer the question who am I? Who am I? and understand that who you Are is

a divine a divine speck, if you will, a divine fragment of the universal consciousness. And that everything else about you, that you own, that you've done, that you've accomplished, that other people think of you, all of that stuff is just like it's just dust. This is not my mother. This is not my Mother. And you want to know something? I'll tell you this. My mother came to me. Two weeks ago, I was in Glasgow, Scotland, getting ready to give a talk. My mother's mother, my grandmother's maiden name was McMillan and her mother was from from

Glasgow, from Scotland. And Nancy and um Michelle in in in when they were in Scotland, they went out, I don't know how they did it, but they went to some store and they got the Scottish clan tartan. And you can go on the internet on my on my Facebook and you can see it and I I wore it when I went out there. Um I didn't even know there was such a thing as a as a clan, but I guess they knew each other by the by the plaids that they wore in Scotland. Remember Braveheart?

That's one of the really great movies about what those, you know, the fierce kind of people that they were up there in Scotland. And um the night before I was giving a speech, it was uh I was I had come from uh Maui to Washington DC, gave a lecture in Washington and went from Washington to Scotland. Now I don't know if you've looked at a map Lately, but that's halfway around the world and that's that's 11 time zones. So that's literally when you're going to sleep, I was getting up and vice versa. It's a total

reversal of time. So I was in that state where you're sort of sleeping and you're not and you're not sure and all of that. It's like, you know what it's like when you do especially when you do a 12-hour reversal in just a couple of days. Um, so I was asleep and I was Awake and I talked to my mother about this before she died about coming to me and making a sign the day before she died because she knew that she was with hospice. Hospice had said this was, you know, her body was shutting

down. And I was driving into the home that we uh lived in from when I was 10 till I was about 17. And I had all of these keys in my pocket and I couldn't get the key. I couldn't get the key into the door. This is a very common dream I've since learned. Um especially when someone has departed and comes back and and I put the this key in and it wouldn't work. And I put and I reached in and you know it's like a endless string of keys. Just so many keys, but I

couldn't get anything to work. And I was just so pissed off and nothing's working here. And all of a sudden the door opens and then there's a screen door and she opens the screen door and she holds her hands out and she's my mother was Beautiful woman. She looked uh she looked a lot like Elizabeth Taylor looked in her heyday. Okay. Um and she was um about 45. I I say it because that just seems like that's the number that came to me. She was about 45 years old. And she just looked at me and

it was so real. It was just and now I was awake and she was there and she and I said to her and this was the mistake I Made. I said you're not you're and I didn't say it but I was thinking it like I was thinking you're dead. What what are you doing in the house? You're dead. You're supposed to be dead. And that that was my thoughts and she could read that because in the fifth and beyond dimensions there's 12 of them. When you get fifth, sixth, seventh dimensions and so on this physical

stuff is just you know you don't have to even bother with It at all. Your thoughts are just transmitted to each other. You know Kung called this like synchron synchronicity of thought and so on. You know where you can communicate telepathically and so on. Well, there it's in in it's instantaneous. Higher awareness is I'm getting ahead of myself here, but higher awareness is when you place your thought upon something that you would like to have manifest into your life, no matter what it is, and it Instantaneously shows up, which is what happens in your dream

state. So, there's not this long cause and effect thing. I have a thought and now I got to go to work and I got to get up and I got do all of this stuff and make it happen and all of that which is what we do in this dimension. In this dimension that we're going for this week, you put your attention on something. It's called it's called in India they call it cityi consciousness. Sidi s i d hi. Sidi Consciousness. It's like it's instantaneous. There it is. It's called Christ consciousness. Roomie has one of

his poems in there where they they talk about someone he he's trying to get in in the in the matni. He's telling trying to convince somebody to come and they said Jesus is here. He speaks about Jesus a lot in his poetry. When Roomie died, people from all over the world came, you know, whether they were Buddhists, whether they were Muslims, whether they were Catholics, whether they were Jews, whatever the people that I mean, he was so revered as God on earth truly. And he is saying in one of his poems, um, the man says,

"I can't go. I'm sick. I'm dying." And he said, "Well, Jesus needs you. Jesus needs you. He needs a corpse that he can make come alive. So he's speaking like this at this uh this elevated level of consciousness that That all of us have the capacity to do. And we've all had we've all been given that's why we sleep. So we've been given this opportunity to enter into this world where whatever we place our thoughts on is instantaneously there. And it's and it's not like you know you wake up and say, "Oh, that wasn't real."

The only way you know it isn't real is when you wake up. La Su said, 'I went to sleep and I dreamt that I was a butterfly and then I awoke and now I Don't know. Am I a man who dreamt he was a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming that I'm a man? It could be either way because it's so you're so convinced of it. And I'm saying to you that higher awareness is that state of consciousness in which you can. And so there was my mother and and I looked at her and

she had this beautiful she had like a black dress on with a buckle buckle up here. I can tell you what the room looked like. I can tell you where she was standing. This was like this was this wasn't just a thought. I mean it's like you know some you have a dream and then you can't remember it so quickly how that happens all the time. This wasn't like that at all. This was there. She was she was she was definitely sending me something. And I was thinking, "You're dead. You're dead. You can't be. You're

dead." And I went to grab her arms. And as I was thinking, "You're dead. You're dead." Her arms started turning into the 97year-old woman that she was, which her arms were sort of wrinkled up and uh you know, and she and she shrivel up cuz she was about 6 inches shorter than she was when she was in her 40s. Uh, and and then her face morphed and she just dissolved. And I was telling Louise, hey, about this at dinner um in London and she said, "The next time it happens, don't think you're dead. Don't think

Those thoughts and don't say those words. Don't think because you can't communicate with someone who's living in an infinite space and talk about death because death talks about beginnings and ends and you are in a universe that is endless and the interior the what I call the your interiority within you has no form to it. And this is Basically the essence of what I wanted to say here to you this afternoon, which is that your soul is your excitement. Your excitement is that inner feeling. It's just a thought. In the in in Greece, in Greek,

the word uh the word enthusiasm breaks down to enthos, God within. the God within. You see it. I've checked all of this stuff out on the internet all over the place. You know, when I was Doing the etmology of all of this to write about it, you know that that it's um so the God within you is your enthusiasm. It's your passion. It's your bliss. It's your it's your excitement. And when you are acting on that, I don't know if you've seen the shift. How many have seen the shift? Oh, wow. You've all seen the

shift. um in the shift that story of Ivan Ilich is such a profound story of uh Leo Toltoy's the death of Ivan Illich where He's he's a judge in uh in Moscow and he hated his life and he hated his wife particularly he hated his wife because he was so angry at his wife because she had made pulled all the strings and arranged everything for him to get this first to get into law school and then to become a lawyer and then to become a judge and she was always because she came from a place

where she had that kind of pull. So here he was, he was a Very respected judge and he hated his life. He hated everything about his life and he's uh and you know the end of the story. You know what it's going to happen. It's by the title. It's the death of Ivan Ilich. Um and he's lying on his deathbed and he's got his holding his wife's hand. this woman that he has despised his whole life because he was a poet and he wanted to he wanted he wanted to just be a poet and he

couldn't do that because he Was so forced into this other life that he had allowed to take place. and he's looking up into his wife's eyes and the last thing he says to her as he closes his eyes and dies. What if my whole life has been wrong and he died? I was 19 when I read that and I wrote myself a note on a pad of paper. It said, "Dear Wayne, don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your music still in you. That is there's not a person in this room,

there's not a person watching this anywhere who doesn't have and something internally within them that excites them and and nobody else has to get it. Nobody else has to understand it. Nobody else to agree with it. Nobody has to go along with it. There's something inside of us. And when we are not living our excitement, we are not supported by the Universe. It becomes sticky. It becomes hard work. It's like nothing seems to work. It just it just uh you're always running into obstacles. But when you are following your excitement, whatever it is, like I

got to guarantee you that right now, here in this moment, today, right now, it's the only moment there is now. This is my excitement. This is my excitement. This is this this is why I'm here. I'm not here because of what I get paid. I'm not Here because of any prestige that I that comes my way. I'm not here to impress anybody. I'm not here for anything other than this is this is who I am. This is who I am. Writing, speaking. This is not what I do. This is not what I do. You can

tell. It's just what I am. And I know why I showed up here on the 1st of September 1939. By the way, that's when William Butler Yates Died. He saw it coming, the great Irish poet, September 1st, 1939, and just left. It's too much for him. He was such a man of peace. So this thing called your soul or your interiority, the invisibeness that has occupied how many bodies do you think you've been in since you showed up here? you know, one this big, one this big, one that did this, one that stands like this,

you know, one that and it's like you've been in all of These bodies and you just keep occupying new bodies and new bodies and uh and what happens is that we take on um we take on this thing called an ego. And the ego is um what we forget as we take on this ego. Mktananda called the ego uh the false self. We really have come to believe we we William Blake was right. We have all been we've been led to believe a lie. We've taken on a false self. And this false self says that

who I am is what I have, what I accomplish, what I do, what I own. Who I am is what other people think of me. Who I am is my reputation. Who I am is all of my stuff. Who I am is separate from everybody else. And so I have to compete with everybody else and go to war with everybody else because I've just got this belief that we're all separate from each other. In the United States of America, one soldier a day commits suicide on active duty. One a day. Every day in Afghanistan, a

soldier is committing suicide. There's a Time magazine had a cover story. One a day it was called. Why is one soldier a day killing himself? Because he has been forced into being something that he is not. What is his original nature? What is all of our original nature? See if I brought that with me. Yes, I Did. It's from the Course in Miracles. It's one of my favorite quotes from the Course in Miracles. So, I I know it, but I want to make sure I don't misquote it. The memory of God. It's God is really

like is like a memory. It's like remembering where you came from. What is your original nature? Lasu called these our original nature. The memory of God comes to the quiet Mind. It cannot come where there is conflict. A mind at war with itself remembers not eternal gentleness. What you remember is a part of you. For you must be as God God created you. Let all this madness be undone for you and return in peace to the remembrance of God still shining in you in your quiet mind. Isn't that great? We we take young people and

we give them guns and we tell them go kill go kill Those people. The Native Americans used to say that no tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. They knew that we're all branches on a tree called humanity. What are we doing telling people that these are your enemies? We all come from the same place. We all return to the same place. We all share the same tree. There's no there's Not Muslims out there and and and Jews and Catholics and Buddhists and so on. There's not Greeks and Romans and Asians and

Spanish and Americans and Canadians and Spanish and Italians. We're just so connect. We're we're so attached to this stuff that we have been handed to us forever that who we are are these labels that we've placed on ourselves when in fact we're we there's there's only there's only oneness. God is only oneness. And whenever we let go of our Oneness and try to get to in the DA, you know, most of you know I when the day I turned 65, the day after I turned 65, May 11th, 2005, I gave up everything I owned. Everything.

20,000 books, all of my clothes, all of my furniture, all the everything. Everything. I just And I my secretary, she's in the back. Her name is Maya. You you probably some of you will talk to her. I handed her the key. I said, "Maya, I'm gone. Give it all away. Who do I give it to?" I said, "Take the all those beautiful clothes that that so many people have given to me and and give it to the homeless people living under the bridge. Give my furniture away. Give it all away." I went to I went

to Maui and for one full year I lived the Dao de Jing. Dao Tao it means the great way in ancient Chinese 2500 years ago. The great way te means the virtue Of ching in ancient Chinese means book. The book of living the virtue of the great way. There are 81 verses in the Dao daqing. Each of them on one page, some of them only four lines long. Some call it the wisest book ever written. And I decided to take each one of those verses and live it and then write my essay on how to

apply it in the year 2006. It's called Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. If you haven't read It, the da deqing and the opening line of the da deqing. The dao that can be named is not the dao because it's like our linear minds cannot grasp the concept of oneness because we're so embroiled in tuness and foress and tendness. The Dao that can be named is not the is not the Dao. The minute that you put a name on something, you have Two. You have the thing and you have the label. The great Danish theologian

Saurin Kirkagard once said, "Once you label me, you negate me. Once you put a label on me, you negate me." And the Dao is filled with that. God, in reading roomie this this last week. So I mean I felt like he and and Loud Su must have been brothers and then I find out that uh he was Uh he was a friend of Shams of Breeze that Roomie and and and Shams and St. Francis and Loud Sue and Jesus and Buddha. They're all telling us the same thing. Someone sent me a book that said Jesus

and La Su. And on the left hand side of the page was all the sayings of Lasu. And on the right hand side was all the sayings of Jesus. They were almost identical. And Jesus came along 500 years after Lasu. I'm not saying he was plagiarizing, but uh what I'm saying is that there are eternal truths. So the soul, the soul, the invisible part of you is the part of you that is infinite. Now this is like this is really the crux of what I've been came up here to speak about this afternoon. The invisible

part of you, the part of you that's watching, the part of you That is not what you have and what you do and what other people think of you, that's the ego. Remember, the ego is edging God out. Ego, edging God out. In the first nine months of your life, while you were inside your mother's womb, there was nothing for you to do. There was nothing for your mother to do. Something was taken care of everything. You didn't have to say, "Oh my god, I Hope my nose doesn't come in over here in the back

of my head and I hope." It's like it was all just being taken for you. Just being done everything. And then you came into this world, popped out. Then your parents said, "Great work, God. We'll take over from here." And in the process of taking over, they taught you your false self and the culture that you were immersed in. And only a handful Of us, Wow, I didn't even know I included myself in there, but I guess by now I'm starting to. Only a handful have ever really grasped the message that there are no limitations.

that that which is infinite has no limitation. So hear this, really hear this. Your soul, the invisible part of you, your excitement is who you are. It's who you are, not this thing, this dust, who you Are. Resist anything that tries to make it finite. What does finite mean? It means it stops someplace. It's finite. This microphone starts here and it ends here. It's like it's finite. This big boat that we're on is finite. The clothes that you wear, the body that you have, it's finite. It begins and it ends. It's finite. The part inside

of you that is just occupying this Finitness is infinite. And what does infinite mean? Infinite mean it means it doesn't stop any place. As soon as you stop at some place, it's finite. How are you going to stop your excitement? How you going to say there that's it? It doesn't exist anymore. Can't turn it off. It's who you are and your soul. This is what I wrote. The ideal of the soul, the thing that it asks 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 and to embrace the infinite. The ideal of the soul is infinity because that's what it is. It is miserable when it is circumscribed to say that carefully. I've mis said that several times. It is miserable when it is circumscribed or restricted. Okay? Once you understand this, see, before I had children, I had eight theories about how to raise children. Now I have eight children, no theories. Okay? So, the one thing I've learned as a parent is That nobody likes being told what to do. Have

you noticed that parents? And if you're not parents, have you noticed how you react to your parents when they tell you what to do or what to be or how to think or what you can do or what you can't do? This is like a universal thing. I see heads nodding. Everybody knows that this is a universal thing that the ideal of the Soul is infinity because it's your excitement. It can't stop any place. As soon as you try to put it into a box, as soon as you try to circumscribe it, as soon as

you try to tell it what it is, your soul will cry out with, "Don't tell me what to do. Don't tell me what I can be. I don't want to hear it from you. I don't want to hear it from I don't want to hear it from any books that you give me. I don't want to hear it from the church. I don't want to hear it from my Culture. I don't want to hear it from and this is true of everyone. It's your soul crying out and saying, "For God's sakes, don't fence me in.

Oh, give me land, lots of land, and the starry skies above. Let me ride through the wide open spaces that I love." That's your soul's. That's its theme song. I'm going to write a book on that. I am. It's the Next thing I'm going to write. As I finish this, I can see clearly now. It's called Don't Fence Me In. And when I mean don't fence me in is don't put any labels on me. Don't tell me what I can't do. Don't insist that. And it's why it's why relationships don't work. They just don't work.

By and large, they don't work because and it's like it's like all of the great spiritual masters. It's never a surprise that none of them were in Relationships. Now they're telling us Jesus was married. I doubt it. I don't mean they can't, but I mean loving somebody really means, you know, really loving somebody means I love you so much that I allow you to be whatever you choose to be. No matter how much it conflicts what I think you should be or what I would like you to be, I love you for that. And I

impose no restrictions, no conditions. I put no boxes that you You're going to fit into. I don't do that because I don't want to staltify your soul. My children, every single one of them, they will tell you, Serena over here, she will tell you when she applied to law school and busted my chops uh to help her to get into law school and to, you know, write the letters for and all of that. And she got there for two weeks and just decided this is not what I want to do. I can't do this. I

can't. That's not something. Where are You, Serena? Get the microphone. Come on over here. Tell them. Grab it. It's right there. She'll tell you. She's writing a book about this. This is Serena, my beautiful 27year-old daughter. Hello. Come on up here. He did not tell me he was. Do what your father tells you to do. I'm not writing a book about law school. You don't correct your father. What' you say? Tell you tell them what? Tell them like um you know when you when you decided that wasn't what you wanted to do and all the

changes you've made in your life. How were you raised? Well, I decided I wanted to go to law school and I applied and got a scholarship and well, partial scholarship and um yeah, the other one was Wayne Dyer scholarship and I went and I was there for um about six weeks and I just really felt like everything I was being told in The classroom was the opposite of how I felt. And it got to a point where I would actually pull up to the school. And it wasn't that I didn't like school because I have

a master's degree and I loved every minute of that. It was that I didn't like um I didn't like being told that that uh right or wrong is based on what is written in a book and not based on the person or the experience. And they would give an example of a case like I can Think of one quickly that was a contracts law in this contracts uh classroom and this man's house was burning down and he was in his 70s and his wife was inside and he got out and his house was burning and

he screamed out. There was a crowd that had gathered outside and he screamed out if anybody can help me get my wife out. I'll give you anything. And a man came up and said really you'll give me anything if I can get your wife out. know this is a true Case. And he said, "Yes, I'll give you $100,000 if you get my wife out." This man goes in. He happens to be an offduty firefighter, and he carries his wife out. And his wife had passed away. And the offduty firefighter took him to court and said,

"I want that $100,000." And now the contract's professor said, "Now, who agrees that he should get that $100,000 or who doesn't agree?" And I was the only person that raised my hand. And everybody else said, "No, no, he, You know, it was a contract and he should get it. That's the way the world works." And I was like, "No, he should not get this money. This is an accident. You know, he didn't mean this wasn't a binding contract." Anyways, when I realized I was like the only person at this Catholic law school that thought that

we should always side with like humanity and not the law, I realized that it wasn't the place for me. So, I left. But, I called my dad before I Left. Actually, I text messaged him. I said, because I hadn't really quit anything before besides like sports, and I said in my text, um, this isn't for me, and I feel sick every day that I go. Now, I know there are good lawyers probably in this room, so I'm not trying to knock it. It just wasn't for me. And um, would you be mad if I left?

And what did you say back? I don't remember. What did I say? You said, "You got the mic. You're taking over. I'm just going To go sit down." Wow. You said, um, Serena, you have a dharma. You have a place inside of you that knows exactly what you should do, and you came here to live a dharma. If this isn't it, go find it. But I will never be mad at you for going after that. Yeah. Yeah. Now, thank you, honey. What's interesting though, and what I want you I want them to hear, come over

here. What I want them to hear is what you felt like when your excitement was something that you could No longer follow. What was going on to your body? What was happening to you? I got pneumonia. I got really sick and um I had gone to the doctor actually the week before because I was feeling so sick and I felt like you know maybe if I am not liking law school um so much I'm actually having a physical reaction to doing something that doesn't agree with my soul. And um that was kind of like the

way that we were raised. If you're feeling if you're actually getting sick Physically sick and I had like fluid in my lungs so I really was physically sick. If you're getting sick doing something that doesn't feel natural to you, you should stop doing it, right? You're so cute. Come over here. Get off of my stage. You bet. Great job, sweetie. She had no idea I was going to call her up here. That wasn't planned at all. So, I was in um Maui and I have a a dear friend, her Name is Carrie, and she has

uh uh two daughters. One daughter's name is Kylie, and she was six. Um she's now 14, but she was six then, and she has a sister named Kamilly, who's four. And um and my grandson uh was was there also named Carter and he calls me Bmpa uh at 4 is what? So um so Carrie said to me, she said, "I'd really like to go shopping, you know, and I never get a break from these kids. Um she said, "Do you think you could uh Watch them for a couple of hours and I'll uh I promise

I'll be back as fast as I can." I said, "Take the whole day." I said, "What is the problem?" She She said, "Yeah, but no, you don't understand my girls." She said, ' They fight all the time over everything, you know. Uh I said, "But they're four and six, you know." I had what five and eight years. I mean, I had kids everywhere. Uh and all of their friends. I mean, the house is just my house has Just been kids forever. Um so I said, "Just go shopping. Just go." She said, "But you don't understand.

It's going to be it's going to be hectic. I don't take I can't even take them to restaurants. I can't even because they just fight all the time. These kids are just always fighting. I said, "Well, if I'll just handle it, you know." So, uh, she went and they went off to the Pool. And all three of them over to the pool. And within seven or eight minutes of Carrie being gone, Kylie comes running over to me and uh she says, "Uh, come just push me. Come for splash me. That's not right. She's always doing

that. She's always she's so bad. She's just splashing me." I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute." Said, "Honey, I'm only here to make sure you don't drown." You know, I put my hand up. I said, Uh, I said, "Splashing at a pool. It's in the way of things." She looked at me like I had six heads. Like, I said, "Um, I'm really not interested in this at all." She said, "But you don't understand." She I said, "Well," I said, "No." I said, "Um, I'm a Dowist master. You have the anchor of the universe located

within you. You're going to have to resolve This yourself. She went away shaking her head like, "Oh my god." She went back to the pool. Be five more minutes later, her younger sister's coming over sobbing, tears running down her [Music] bed. Carter, Carter, pushed me and Kylie isn't even talking to me. And it's not fair. And I don't like this. They never do it. They never treat me right. It's not right. I said, "Oh, Kamiley, honey, Comey, hold it right there. Hold it." What? What? I said, "I want you to try to imagine how little

I [Laughter] [Applause] care." She just looked at me and like, I don't know. And then five more minutes later, my grandson, he comes running at me. Ba bumpa. Both of them are He looked at me and he knows cuz he's been around me enough. He just went, "Oh, he doesn't Give a about this stuff at all." Like, and off they went. And basically, I have one philosophy of raising children, which is guide, then step aside. Guide then step aside. I am not here to solve every dispute of yours. And you have the power and the

capacity within you to resolve all of this. It is not going to be I am not going to be dragged into this kind of a a a way of being that um and this is what this is What Serena was speaking about is like my children have always known that they are not here. They will they will tell you they they didn't even bring their report cards home to me because I really don't care about whether they get a B or a C or an A or whether they get into that school or this school.

I went to a school that nobody ever even heard of. You know, it's like uh I used to tell my kids I went to Wayne State University and I I Had them convinced for 10 years that they named it after me, you know. But wait, we all have this within us. We all have the anchor of the universe located within us. And when you know the great Lebanese poet Khalil Jabbrron said, "Your children are not your children. They are the products of life's longing for itself. They come through you. But not for you. They come

through you. And in relationships, he said, "Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the oceans roar in those spaces." What does that mean? It means you have to allow if you're going to be in a love relationship with somebody else, you can't put them into a box. You can't. You got to love them for what they are. And if loving them if if loving them means loving them when they decide not to love you, that's the kind Of love you have to have. That's divine love. That's the love that Jesus wrote about. You

know, when Osama bin Laden was killed and you saw people jumping up and down in the streets and celebrating and when they got kaddafi and they and I was on my radio show and and even when my children, my son was talking about how happy he was and everything and I said, "No, read the Dao." And the Dao, it says That a victory in war is to be celebrated by mourning because it still gives evidence that we have not found our divine nature. If you love those who love you, what virtue lies in that? Even

the morally weak love those who love them. And if you are good to those who are good to you, what virtue lies in that? Even the morally weak do that. Love your Enemies. Be good to them. Share with them without expecting anything in return. Then your reward will be rich and you will be sons of the most high. He is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be compassionate like your father. How much of that do we practice on our planet? Divine love is is a is a love that we have inside of us because

it's the only thing we have to give away. That's all we can give away. Again patanuli when you are steadfast this is who Jesus was this is who was this is who shams of tabre was this is who Muhammad was this is who Buddha was when you are steadfast which means it's there's no ego when you are steadfast in your abstension of thoughts of harm arm directed towards yourself and others that all living Creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. That's who St. Francis was. I've been to Aisi and many of you who

some of you were there with me. How many who was there? Look at look so many of you were there with us last year. Just a year ago, a little over a year ago. Do you remember the lecture in Aisi when I stood there and St. Francis just entered my body and literally I just lost it. I couldn't speak for seven Eight minutes. It was just it was overwhelming the love and everyone in the room just stood up and just held their hands out. It was you can reach this level of consciousness. There's a great

Indian poet his name was Tagore Rabindraat Tagore. In 1927, he wrote a collection of poetry called the Gatangeli. This is what he said about the ego. I went out alone on my way to my Trrist. But who is this me in the dark? I step aside to avoid his presence, but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger. He adds his loud voice to every word I utter. He is my own little self, my Lord. He knows no shame. But I I am ashamed to come to thy Door

in his company. That's the ego. That's the part of us that we have to transcend. That's where we have to go within and recognize who we truly are. And who we are is divine love. When Jesus was asked who is God, he said God is love. And he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in Me and I in him. It's just love. That's all roomie is about when we go to Ephesus next week or this week whenever it's about love. It's about love for the beloved. Love for the divine. love for that that place within us

that is uh that is our excitement. It is our God. It is it it is it's what God is. Whatever excites You is the part of you that is saying this is my dharma. This is what I'm here for. And you know what it's always about? It's always about serving. The miser who loves his gold gets no love from the gold. There's no love in gold. The reason the miser is so exquisitly happy with his gold is because of the outpouring of love that he has for it. That's what he Feels when you feel so

good about your Mercedes or you feel so good about this ship or you feel so good about your great paintings as I read to you at the beginning of today. The Chinese versus the Byzantines. When you feel so great about these great accomplishments and all that you have and all that you own and all that you've defeated and all the winds that you've had, it's nothing to do with any of that stuff external to you. It's the Outpouring of love that you are giving to it. And you can't you can't have love in your life.

And you can't give it away unless that's what you have inside. I used to give this example and I'd have kids sitting. I would be speaking to thousands of people and there'd be a few kids sitting here in the front row and I' I' I'd always come out with an orange and I'd throw the orange up and catch it and throw the orange up and catch it and I would say to one of the the young children sitting in the front, "If I take this orange and I squeeze it between my hands right up here

and I squeeze this as hard as I can squeeze it, what's going to come out?" And they'd always say, "Juice? Of course, juice." And I'd say, "Wait a minute. Why? Why you squeeze an orange as hard as you can squeeze it does juice come out?" And they'd say, "Well, it's an Orange." So I said, "It's not just juice because you don't get apple juice if you squeeze this, right? You're not going to get grape juice, right? You're not going to get, you know, lemon juice. You're not going to get any of that. the only thing

you can get out of it is whatever it is. They'd say, "Yeah, orange juice. Orange juice." I say, "Yeah, but why when you squeeze an orange do you get orange juice out of it?" And finally, one little kid over here would just go, "That's so dumb." You know, because that's what's inside. I said, "Well, of course it's because that's what's inside." And someone squeezes you and someone puts pressure on you and someone tells you that you're bad or that you're evil or they don't like you or that you're wrong or that you're miserable or that

you're any of these things and someone does this to you. And out of You comes anger and hatred and bitterness, fear, tension, stress, revenge, bitterness. It's not because of who did the squeezing. You don't get an or orange orange juice out of an orange because of who did the squeezing or what instrument they use or How they squeezed it. That's not why you get it. It's because that's what's inside. And if you don't have that inside, and you won't have it inside if you're following your excitement. Because when you're following your excitement, you are aligned

with God. It's who you are. And who you are, who you are is God. So all you have to do is follow Your excitement, follow your passion. And some will say, but if my excitement is to make other people unhappy or if it's to kill other people or to do these kind of things and you see that um that's a violation of your original nature. So the only caveat on your excitement is that it has to be aligned with God because that's what it is and God is love. So if it's not love, it's really

not your excitement. It's really not God. You've moved away from where you originated because all you have to do is look at a newborn child. Look at a a new baby. And they are just pure love. Just pure love. Any questions? See you tomorrow. God bless you. Good night.