- [Bob] We read the newspaper; doom and gloom's comin'.
We just accept it.
(euphoric music)
Doom and gloom doesn't have to be coming.
Did you know there's always been
a depression for some people?
I grew up with the idea
that everybody went broke in the 30's.
They didn't, some made millions.
Let's ask ourself when we read something in the paper,
do I want to get emotionally involved in that idea?
There's always a depression for some people
and there's always good times for others.
The one point that all the great teachers,
all down through history, have all agreed on,
they've been in complete unanimous agreement on it,
we become what we think about.
We become what we think about.
Now, it may be fantasy at first,
it might even appear to us as being a lie.
But if you read it often enough you'll start to believe it.
You'll start to believe it.
I learned that the biggest part of me,
you'll never see, it's non-physical.
And what you see here in the physical body
is nothing but the physical manifestation
of the higher side of my personality.
And what we have to study, I think,
is how does this non-physical part of my mind work?
Thoughts are everywhere.
And we pull thoughts into our mind
and we build pictures or images in our mind.
What we want to understand is that's a non-physical side
of ourself that's doing that.
If I can build an image of something in my mind,
I'm quite capable of building
a physical replicate of it in my world.
We become what we think about.
So if I build an image of me as a happy, relaxed person,
I can live like that.
If I build an image of myself as being prosperous,
I can live like that.
- [Interviewer] So if we think rich, we will be rich?
- [Bob] Absolutely, we're already rich,
just short of money. (laughing)
- [Interviewer] Those of use that want to reach the goals
that we've set for ourselves, we do it first by?
- [Bob] Well, first thing you do
is sit down and decide what you want.
If it's money you want, how much money?
- [Interviewer] Lots of money.
- [Bob] Well, nobody knows how much lotsa is,
so you got to be specific.
- Okay. - You write down on a card
exactly what you want,
and you carry that card around and read it often.
Now, this is what I learned
in this book, "Think and Grow Rich,"
and it's what I teach in the seminaries.
I'll teach people how to set goals,
but you decide exactly what you want,
and then you start to think.
Now, you're going to have thoughts come to your mind
of why you can't get it.
Think of how you can and not why you can't.
- [Interviewer] Okay.
- [Bob] We become what we think about.
And I believe if a person will start this,
study that and look for the answer, they'll find it.
See, I think we live simultaneously
on three planes of understanding.
We're spiritual creatures, we have an intellect,
and we live in physical bodies.
But because we lack awareness
or understanding of who we are,
we're totally locked into a physical world,
and we let things outside of us control us.
95% of the population are reacting to life,
they're not really living at all.
Most people, they get a job, they look around
and see how everybody else is doing their work,
and they start doing it the same way.
They should stop and think,
I wonder if any of these people know what they're doing?
(laughing)
Is there a better way to do it?
- [Interviewer] But don't we have a need to fit in?
I mean, we don't want to stand out,
we don't want to get fired, we don't make waves.
- [Bob] Exactly, exactly.
Just fall into line, take a number,
be like everybody around.
Now, that'd be great in the animal kingdom,
but human beings aren't supposed to live that way.
I think we should make a few waves.
We should maybe stand out, be different.
Not for the sake of being different,
but because we are different.
We all think different thoughts.
And I believe we should start to think
and build images in our mind of what we'd like to do
and then set out and do it.
We become what we think about.
Now, it may be fantasy at first,
it might even appear to us as being a lie,
but if you read it often enough, you'll start to believe it.
And when William James said,
"Believe in your belief would create the fact,"
you will see the person's personality change.
I watch people in the seminars personality change
right in front of my eyes, and all they're doing
is starting to see themself differently,
they're starting to think different thoughts.
We become what we think about.