When you have resistance,
you block the stream that's flowing to you.
You block the good ideas.
Your inner being knows where you stand
in relationship to everything you desire.
And it's constantly streaming awareness of how to get there.
But if you are all balled up in what's wrong,
you're not getting any of those messages,
but it doesn't stop the messages.
That's the thing that we most want you to understand.
Your inner being is flowing to you at all times.
The question is, are you in the receiving mode or not?
And we find that we want things to come into our life,
but we don't create room for them.
Nature pores a vacuum.
What have you got in your life that you don't want?
Or that you don't like?
Or what is it that you've got
that you really wanna get rid of?
You've gotta get rid of this stuff.
Get rid of it, give it away.
See, nature truly does apore a vacuum.
When you make space for the good that you desire,
that's when the good's gonna come.
Most people don't make the space
for the good that they desire.
One of the central principles of my life is
that no one knows enough
to be a pessimist
about anything.
And that each and every one of us,
when we close our mind
to what is possible for us
or what is possible for humanity,
closes off the genius
that resides and lives in each and every one of us.
Having an open mind doesn't necessarily mean
finding fault with all of the things
that you've been taught by others.
It means opening yourself
to the potentiality and the possibility
that anything and everything is possible
So you better get to finding out
what the hell it is you want in life
and be clear about it.
Because your time's running out
Longer you wait,
the less clarity you have in life,
the less you get out of life.
Because you don't know what, how it is you want.
You just walk around doing this, doing that,
having all kinds of random experiences.
Some are good, some are not good.
And then you make proclamations
like, well, this is life.
No, that's not life.
This is some kind of random
thing that you chose to live.
Get clear.
A commitment play heavily in everything.
If you've made a commitment,
when you hit the rough spots, not if,
when you hit the rough spots,
your immediate thought is,
how can I solve the problem?
If you've not made the commitment,
when you hit the rough spot, whether it's in marriage
or education or career, or whatever,
your first thought is,
man, how can I get out of this deal?
And so that commitment plays a huge role in his.
You know, some people are about as committed
as a Kamikazi pilot on its 39th Mission,
I mean, they don't really, uh, take it that seriously.
When you make something,
you put it together, you assemble parts.
Or you carve an image out of wood or stone.
Working from the outside in to inside.
But when you watch something grow,
it works in an entirely different way.
It doesn't assemble parts.
It expands from within
and gradually complicates itself.
Expanding outwards like a bird blossoming,
like a seed, turning into a plant.
So many people think that money is the
most important thing in the world, and if
they don't have money, they would just die.
But that's not true.
There's a substance that is far more
precious and far more important to us
that we literally can't live without.
What is that?
Love?
No
Plenty of people are miserable and lonely
most of their life and, and, and live.
Air? air, air, your air, your breath,
your breath is the most important thing that you have.
The most precious thing.
If you didn't take another breath,
you wouldn't last three minutes and
you'd never get out of this room.
And yet we absolutely take for granted
that our next breath is there.
Look at us.
We're all in this room breathing,
and I'm not saying don't breathe.
There's not enough for me.
We assume that it's there,
and when we exhale, we don't think about
where's my next breath coming from?
Now if the power that created us
has given us enough breath,
to last for as long as we shall live.
Can we not begin to trust that the other
things will take care of themselves?
See, life is here for us.
Life is here to support us, to take care of us,
to be here for us, the entire planet
Has been put here for us to play with.
We have everything that we shall ever need.
It's already here.
Only we have to know it,
and we have to trust it,
and we have to acknowledge it.
Do you realize that there is more food on
this planet than people could possibly eat?
There's an incredible amount of food.
Yes, it is true that there are people starving.
But the food is here.
There is more money on this
planet than we know how to count.
The money is here
now There are lots of people who are very broke,
but the money is here.
There are billions of people on this planet.
and yet you will have people
tell you that they're lonely.
It has nothing to do with not being people.
It's what we're doing with our heads.
Everything is here for us.
For every dis-ease on this planet,
there is a plant that'll cure it.
Everything, everything is here for us.
And the more we begin to trust life and
acknowledge the beauty and magnificence of our
own being, the more we find everything we need.
Lungs have to do with taking in life.
This is the breath of life.
This is where we take in life and we have
the ability to take in just enough to
get us by or we can fill our lungs and
really have all the cells and the body
work well, and our brain cells work well.
Traditionally, for generations and generations,
women have been very shallow breathers because
we bought this story that said we're not good
enough, that we're second class citizens,
and we began to believe that we didn't
have the right to take up very much space.
And we barely had the right to exist.
and so we taken just about enough air to keep us going
that's changing now and it's wonderful.
And one of the things that really excites me
today is what's happening with women in the gyms.
You know, we have worked in the fields
for a very long time, but I think this
is the first time that I'm aware of where
women have really gone out for sports.
And you see some of the female bodies
in the gyms these days that go out and
exercise, they are incredibly magnificent.
Just wonderful.
And they are taking in life and taking up space
and taking air, and I think it's beautiful.
So people who have lung problems, people who
smoke too much, people who have emphysema and
things like that, they're cutting life off.
They're saying on some level,
I don't deserve to exist.
or only deserve to exist a little bit.
One of the things that's important to learn how to
do is to act as if what you want is already there.
To act that way, not to act as if
maybe if I set all these goals and work real hard at them.
You see when I said that success is
an inner concept, so is happiness,
so is love, so is approval.
If you think that you are going to find fulfillment,
if you set a goal out there
and then you work real, real hard for that goal,
and when you get there, you'll finally have it.
Your life is all this striving.
What you need is a psychology of arriving.
Not striving.
You know, you're thinking about what
I'm gonna do and I'm gonna get here.
Meantime, every one of these days are your life.
This is all you get.
So the goals, while there's nothing wrong with
goals at all,
it's like every step along the way
is just as important to savor as arriving here.
And if you're only goal oriented and
only striving, you're only about halfway
up the ladder of no limit people.
You are always going to suffer
From the disease of more,
if you only have goals to arrive at in the future,
because this becomes your life.
This striving, striving, striving.
And when you get here,
you don't know what to do with this.
You don't know how to handle what you've got.
So then you upgrade your goal.
You say, all right, I'll have 200,000 in
the bank instead of a hundred thousand.
And now your life becomes more struggling.
More suffering more, trying to get there,
trying to get there.
And you get here and then you,
all of a sudden you look around and you're an old person
and you say, What happened to my life?