Dr. Wayne Dyer interview with Tony Robbins | Power Talk!| Part 2 of 2

now it didn't take off right away you had an exam checked off at all no it's that they had one printing and they expected it to do very little and they met their expectations they were they told me they had what they call a list mentality they said this is the list you're on the phone on the marks list and it's a clever little title and it's a nice little book and if we sell the books that are on our list they had a printing first printing of 3,500 then then we'll be happy and you'll make a little money we'll make along then we'll move on to the next list in April and so on and that was the mentality that's a big part of the mentality in publishing today as you as you know so I just said well what will happen if the first printing sells out just if I know what I mean that's what you're saying just if his name was Lou all right and Lou said wait he said you're not known he said this is 3500 books in hardcover at $7 695 I mean that was like an outrageous price to put on the book at that time I said but just if and he said well if they do we'll have to put a second printing I said okay fine and so I became they wouldn't let me buy him I tried to bind they wouldn't let me so I became a bookstore I was in New York at the time and all you have to do to become a bookstore just give him a number in Albany in your a bookstore so I became a bookstore by just giving them a tax number and and through that tax number which I gave him the address of the bookstore that my garage was to become in Long Island is true and I called that day and I ordered three thousand three hundred and fifty copies of your erroneous zones and they were shipped they was shipped to the zoo sold out I sold it and I went back to Lou two days later I said Lou what will happen if we we do so he said Wayne you've got to stop bothering me it's like you're another one of these beginning authors I said well just check just check the computer just see how it's doing cuz I said I've been doing a lot of speaking and and I think and he went to his computers the truth is I could even tell you his last name goes and he went to the computers at oh my god this book is doing fantastic we sold out the whole first printing so they ordered a second printing 1500 they didn't want to take too much oh no I bought all those up to oh I bought the second printing and by that time they didn't have any money for distribution they didn't have any advertising money they didn't have any of that they just because they just didn't do that in those days so I said I'm going on the road and I quit my job as a professor at st. John's I walked in and I had you know I had all these publication credits and I was like a rising star there and they said you insane you've got guaranteed tenure for the rest of your life yeah yeah you can be you can argue for your misery for the rest of your life you know and and I resigned and everybody thought I was nuts except my wife and I we both knew that this was this was the right thing the day I resigned from doing something that I no longer wanted was totally involved in I was good at it but I didn't want to do it it was like drill you know I'm after you've drilled an usher just enough drill is drill okay but you don't need to keep doing it I've learned that in the military so uh I I walk I drove home on the Long Island Expressway that day the freest man I'd ever felt I knew I was about to follow my bliss I really knew it and I didn't have any guarantee of any income or anything the interesting thing about that is that in the following year and a half I made more money I was 36 years old now at that time I made more money without even trying I never thought for a minute that I would make money because I hadn't made any money on anything I'd written yet that wasn't that would always be here yeah I wasn't writing for money I was writing because writing was just something that I expressed myself that's just who I am and I made more money in the next 18 months than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life like by ten by a factor of ten and I'm just going out sharing your philosophy with rady today I took the books in a station wagon across the country and I I would this is the way I did it if you want to know how I get it I would arrive in a town like Columbus Ohio where they have these they have good morning Columbus on the radio you know and if you've got a new avocado dip you're on for an hour you know they're looking for people okay every stations got a talk so you just have to find out who they're and I had a girl back in chicken New York named Donna Gould who was working for the publisher but was willing to work for nothing at night for just because she loved erroneous zones and loved me and loved the the whole thing I mean she was just involved in the whole process she really loved it and so she would call these different stations and all that and book me on Good Morning Columbus and good afternoon Columbus and hello lumbers and goodbye Columbus and you know and all of this kind of thing yeah and I would I would have my car full of books I would arrive in Columbus I was sleeping in the car I mean I did this I had no my do this I'm sorry and I would sneak showers I would figure out how to take free showers in Days Inns and things uh but a committed wino was a white traveling oh yeah well sometimes I'm time times she was also working well and I would go to the bookstores and first I was telephone them on a call them up and I'd say have you got a book called your erroneous zones and I would do it in like nine different dialects you've had Vlad only Athlon es yes either dinner then I do it in German and I do it in touch and then my wife was with me she would call and I get these people to call and ask for erroneous - this is exactly what we did shame created the man I love and and but what I knew I was gonna create the demand I mean I didn't think I was doing anything that you know immoral I was just creating the demand you know what it was that I believed it yeah besides I had 5,000 books I had to get rid of cuz I had no distribution at all so what we call committed that's right I was totally involved in the process and then I would go on the air okay and and I would do what we're doing now yeah I never tried to sell my books I never gave the title out I never said oh by the way my new book is called and oh yes my book is this and you've seen this on the air and every time somebody does that you say well they're you know they're not involved in it they're just trying to sell me something and you move away I didn't do that I was just selling myself as a person I was just talking like we're talking and when people talk and are committed and are involved in our authentic and are enthusiastic about what they're saying people respond people want to know more yeah they just want to know more it's why I let everybody tape all my talks I never deny anybody to take mice to this day in fact I not only allow it I insist on it and I don't take a cent for it any time I speak I say if I'm on purpose rather than an outcome if I'm on purpose and in the process then my purpose is to get the message out that's where I've got to be centrally focused not on what's gonna come back to me not on royalties not a crime just on that so I allow every chore every organization you can take me and you can do anything you want with the tapes anything you want you want to sell them to your customers and all of that just don't put them into bookstores and make a legal conflict for sure just legal problems sure but otherwise do anything you want with them cuz I figure all that can happen is something good what can happen for somebody here's an interview of mine other than they say gee I want to hear more of that guy and off they go the bookstore or off they do it a call for the tapes and all nothing but good can happen and then you keep circulating in and so on so I mean I look I learned that about three years ago when my agent kept saying that you can't tape Wayne Dyer now I have a clause in there that says you insist that you take me and do whatever you want with the tapes that's true so so I was like on that process then I would finish at the interview and I would go to the same bookstore and I'd say by the way I'm here in Columbus the little professor bookstore this is one of them I can remember very well and I said I just did AM Columbus and I'm gonna do this afternoon's Columbus and I'm gonna do all of this and I didn't the guy said my god we've already had ten phone calls well how I knew I might and I said well can I just leave 25 of my books here and if they don't sell then you can send them back to me and here's the address and it won't cost you anything to send them back co-teacher he said absolute we've already had calls for and sure enough they were getting calls people were going in this year and and that's how I distributed my book from side did that in Columbus I did that in Baltimore I did that in Jacksonville I did it in Tampa I did it I went to every almost every I shouldn't say every state but I went to about 75% of the states in the country at my own expense in my own little car six months on the road and then finally the book hit the bestseller list and it was interesting because The Tonight Show was the show that everybody wanted to get on in those days that's when it was an hour days and that story is so phenomenal I don't know how our time is more fine oh the the story of getting on that show because my Donna was always trying to get me on the show again she'd call it tonight so she'd call him as you call him and they'd say if we hear that a1 Wayne Dyer one more time I'm not turns out that a friend of mine now very good friend named Howard Pappas was working on the show as it and someone had placed a copy of erroneous zones in his briefcase and he was flying back to new to Los Angeles and he happened to pick out that book and read it on the plane well he called me and he asked me if I would be willing to fly out to Los Angeles and do a pre-interview for the Tonight Show I said no I'm busy putting up my screens I can't do that what do you mean sure enough I flew out to Los Angeles and I went out there and it's so interesting when you when you get off of trying to get something and just stay on purpose yes it's that great quote from Thoreau if you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams endeavor to live the life which you've imagined you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours we want to talk about an unexpected thing I couldn't get on one national show Tony I couldn't get on the Donahue sure couldn't get on The Today Show I couldn't get these are all shows that I've done a hundred times said yes but I couldn't get on any of them because they said that you know who I divorced yeah and I was forcing that's right I was pushing it but there's another way to reach everybody in the country and that's to go to everybody in the country if they won't put you on network television you can still go out there and do it if you're committed to wanting to do it so I go out and I do the pre-interview and it's a it's the it's the Republican National Convention 1976 Kansas City Bob Dole is going to give the the keynote address now I had such a angry feeling towards Bob Dole because I got on the show okay I got on the show from the result of the pre-interview and Shecky Greene was the host you know who Shecky Greene is a great comedian in Las Vegas super super guy one of the nicest guys in the world and he very for there's a thousand different dialects you must get to meet to check it he's a great guy and he was at hosting the show and he asked me if I would you know so I get on the show I know but it's Monday but the show for the first time in the history of The Tonight Show gets preempted because Bob Dole instead of giving a 45-minute speech gives a two-hour speech and it goes over in the show is preempted so I fly back to Detroit where I'm back there with my wife and I find out that the show's preempted I'm all excited I'm telling everybody that in the world that I know that I'm on The Tonight Show that night and it gets preempted so you know it's like out one door really yeah another door opens the other door opens it always works this way when you were when you're doing what you're supposed to and getting off so that was Monday night Tuesday Johnny Carson comes in to his meeting with Howard and all of them and says and they said we had a guest on last night that was fabulous he said he said the audience just went crazy over and Carson said well if he was that good he said I'd like to have him on before they show that preempted show was scheduled to was scheduled for a week from the following Monday they were going to just set it in it so I get another call from Jack will you fly back this time when I fly back there's a limo and I've got my own dressing room the first time I went in there it's like you can dress in the toilet over here depressing my clothes and they're cutting my hair which is really like a manaat' a big job you know I charge for a search fee when I do mine so so I go on the show on Wednesday night this is like two nights later and I go on with Carson and Carson says and we only have maybe seven or eight minutes who goes grey was just great it was super he was so good to me and he said to me you know this isn't enough time for this this is really terrific he said could you stay over till Friday oh my god and do the show again on Friday because you know he checked with Freddy Decorah and I said no I said no screens I can't do it I got no so I stayed over til Friday did the show on Friday the preempted show showed on Monday and from not having any national exposure at all across the country I went from just doing am Columbus and all these shows all over to getting that three Network appearances in five days Wow and the book went from it was on the bestseller list at that time before I hit the Carson show for the first time I got it on the on the bestseller list by just going across the country as an unknown I got on The Tonight Show did it three times in five days the Donahue show started calling us the you know I did the Donahue show three or four times there and then the the Today Show and it said and it became a you know it became like the biggest it will became the biggest bestseller of the 70s it was the top-selling book for the entire decade and it was all because I was advancing how I was doing what made sense to me you know today I don't do that today I don't I don't go out and do it that way I do it another I trust it'll all work out in another way no you've built you built it all so but I think it's really I really appreciate you sharing the story because a lot of times I think people have interpreted your philosophy to mean just let things happen and the truth is you're surrendering but you're Atkins it's faith with work advocating action as you think so shall you be right okay so you act upon what you think about if you're thinking about what's missing if you're thinking about the scarcity in your life if you're thinking about what's wrong you're thinking about what you don't have if that's what your thoughts are and what you're constantly thinking about and processing your world that way then that will be what you have to act on you have to act on what's missing it's just like in a relationship if you think about what you don't like about somebody in a relationship then you have to act upon that your relationship is really not located in another person it's located in you where everything is located in that invisible part of you do you know what everybody said about the reason why erroneous zones was so successful now it was the it was the 70s it was the me generation it was the exact right timing Dyer was lucky he hit it at the right you know they don't know how many but then I put 45,000 miles on my car one summer you know and that I went out and bought all of those books on it's like and took the restful people are very very lucky just ask any failure they'll confirm it for you this is true this is true what is the most important you've shared a couple of lessons but if you're gonna say the most important say three lessons you've got the last 10 years that you would share with people what are they I know it's at the top and that is you become what you think about yeah if you want love in your life send love out have love within you do you love it yeah if it's like I think of the orange I would give the analogy of if you squeeze an orange what comes out is what's inside it doesn't matter who squeezes it or what time of day or what instrument you use or what the circumstances how you can only get out of an orange what's inside and if you extend the metaphor to yourself and someone squeezes you that is puts pressure on your assess something - or whatever behaves in a way towards you that you find objects in line out of you comes anger or hatred or tension or stress or bitterness or any of that it isn't because of who did the squeezing it or the circumstance it has nothing to do with that as much as we'd like to convince ourselves of that it's because that's what's inside and what's inside is always within our own control I think the second thing is that Robert Frost said we all sit around in a ring and suppose while the secret sits in the center and knows and what the secret in the center that knows is is what it is that constitute your very life it's like this room were in right now there's only a room not because of the walls and the configuration and all the form that's in here it's because of this here that that neither one of us can get ahold of this silent empty invisible space surrounded by form that's what like in Zen they say it's the space between the bars that holds the tiger and it's the silence between the notes that makes the music see music isn't notes it's silence between notes you aren't formed that isn't what makes you who you are what makes you who you are is the invisible and surrounded by form that's the secret that sits in the center and notes once you know that and make contact with that and realize that that is that is who you are that it is it is out of nothingness it is out of emptiness it is out of that silent empty space that you create every thought every sound when you go to make a sound the sound comes from that nothingness you know so nothingness what we call nothingness which is everything else which is the DAO you know and the dial that can be described it's not the dial you can't describe but it just is it's it's it's in every one of us once you know that and go there and consult that then you can not only affect your own physical life but you can truly affect the physical life outside of you Deepak and I were having lunch Deepak Chopra and I were having lunch up in Seattle this day and we talked about doing this new program we talked about there are four ways that we were just playing toying we said there are four ways to get strawberry ice cream so let's see let's think of the four ways to get so bright you know and he talks in this very wonderful Indian access you know Indian accent in India you know I talked with a funny Detroit accident you know and there's a there's a lot more people in India than there are here so we're talking about what are the four ways to get strawberry ice cream and I said well if I want strawberries gonna just have to have a thought and the thought is I want some strawberry ice cream now I'll just go get it okay so I got off the haagen-dazs or I go off to the grocery store and I get so that's like a thought and then you act on the thought now there's a second way to get strawberry ice cream and that is to have a thought and then to send one of your kids to get yeah don't slavery okay but I want some strawberries can go get it for him so you have a pot and then somebody else goes and gets it for you that's the second way to get strawberry it's good little higher-level consciousness you don't have to work so hard it's got somebody else doing it for you there's a third way to get strawberry ice cream and the third way to get strawberry ice cream it's no deepok offered he said you just think I'd like to have some strawberry ice cream and then someone walks by and says excuse me is this your strawberry ice cream and you say wow I was just thinking of that and I saw everybody listening has had that experience absolute where you just think of you think of your sister you haven't seen her in seven years and all of a sudden she's calling you or whatever it's like you have affected you don't think you have you just think that's sometimes that's of the quinces but we know that there's no that there's no chaos that there's order in chaos at the subatomic level we know that so it's like you think of something and then it's just it's just appears for you and people say well if there's three ways what could be the fourth and and we've seen this oh well let's see I'd like to have some strawberry ice cream and you manifest it yes you just manifest it or as Christ said even the least among you can do all that I have done and even greater things I mean the gift of fish and loaves the gift of feeding others the gift of up and what do you do when you go to sleep and when you're in pure thought but everything you need for your dream you manifest so you need a Lamborghini you need someone to chase you with a knife you need a father that's gonna abuse you you need you whatever characters you need for your dream you created now when you wake from your dream you don't look back at your dream and say where's my Lamborghini because listen folks everybody knows it's neurotic to be attached to an illusion oh why would anybody be so all you have to do to learn not to be attached to this illusion is to die while you're alive you know mmm that's what the Sufis say when you die while you're alive you look back on your life and you realize that you can't own anything you can't have any of it so what you do is you detach yourself from it and the more you detach yourself from that the more you get and that's the great lesson what who is Wayne Dyer he I know he's a spiritual being but what are your metaphors for yourself who are you besides that metaphor a metaphor so all inclusive yeah my metaphor is that I am NOT in the world the world is in me I really I really I really feel that that that the that in every cell of my being the universe exists it's like I'm on like a pharmacy I mean I can create what do I need for to heal this body for example the feeling is what I'm talking about who Wayne Dyer is is this ability to if I need valium to create it deepak tells me the story of when he went to it when he went to London and there was a guy next to him drinking he had eight drinks before they have gotten halfway there and finally he said to him he said look he said you're my buddy he said I'm gonna buy you a drink and Deepak said to him I'm making my own and it's like don't worry that I guess I mean I know that Who I am is those birds you hear out here right now I mean when I when I see them flying I soar with them that's who I am I am all of it I mean I'm not I'm not separate I'm not even separate from you I said before like I can wiggle this finger because I believe that there's a connection between some kind of a thought which is invisible and the wiggling of this finger but I can't see that connects I can't get ahold of that and if I believe in the oneness of it all that means that if you can wiggle your finger that same oneness is there I've got to detach myself from my separateness and believe that that I can't be you I I am at all I am I am the Sun that comes up in the morning I am the birds that that fly I am the flower I am that that invisible force that is in every living thing that allows it to be that way how do you help somebody who sees themselves as separate not only from life but every sense of life how do you help somebody like that to bridge the gap to whether I remember who they really are the only way you can do it I think and I've been at this business a long time of trying to help people and writing books about it a lot of books I wrote long before erroneous zones that were about counseling and was a therapist for years I think that the the notion of that when the student is ready the teacher will appear yeah so it's like all I can do is help people to get ready that's all I can do and see I mean I picked up the bhagavad-gita three years ago okay now I had I've had the bhagavad-gita in my library since I was in college but I've never read it and I've seen it and you know I've seen it a hundred so finally one day I'm here and I pick up the bhagavad-gita and I read it and I say to myself it's about time they wrote something like this then I see that it's about 2,500 years old no six thousand years older whatever it is all right and I heard and so but it's been there all along yeah but I wasn't ready but when I'm ready it's like it soars into my life and I go to the mailbox and what I need is is ready it's like we were talking about earlier when I need to give a speech and and I need to recite a poem all right or even with prosperity if I'm feeling like I need to have more more money or two more my investments to be but just like it all gets it the right person shows up and the right thing it all gets handled it's like trusting your intuition and knowing that everybody has it so all you can do is help people to get convinced that they have this power within them that it isn't something I have and you don't it's something that you have but you haven't used yet and the fact that you haven't used it yet is no reason to judge yourself badly or even to be mad at yourself you ought to be saying I haven't been ready you know now I am and as soon as you acknowledge that you're ready when the student is ready then you'll find your teachers appearing and your teacher might be like my little kids who walked into your room yes or when John asked me said will you do this interview my first inclination was no I am here doing something else I'm here with my family and all that and then I got this I meditated on it and I got this really nice letter and it was like and I thought I've got to talk to Tony I've been wanting to talk to Tony yeah and Tony's got something too to learn from me and I've got something to learn from Tony so the opportunity is here and we've we've like missed each other on a lot of occasions and we've been with each other but we've also missed we've been on the same programs in the same cities where you spoke in the morning and I spoke in the evening and you've been gone and I've been gone and we've been sort of like being thrown at each other but just sort of missing and I said we both got something to learn from each other so let's let's do that I've heard some things about you from other people that I didn't like you've probably heard some things about me that you said the way that you get it all in harmony is that you don't ignore you don't you go with each other so you walk into my house and my children are in love with you in a second you emit a beautiful kind of spirituality I see that whatever you are going through in your life with the with I know there are struggles with with your fame I mean you've come very young very very very powerful and and I've got a enormous organization about you and I wanted to say to you I don't want you to get swallowed up by it you know I want I want to the essential beauty that is within you to to flower and to something sometimes you have to say I said that's one of the things you got to say is no and I like to say it but I'm not as good at it and I'm a lot better than I used to be so if like what I'm saying this is a mutual thing here there's like I appreciate the gift book yeah very much yeah and it's for and likewise I appreciate the gift of being with you and so I just let go of all of the other stuff so this is this is a wonderful opportunity let's let's do it and you know what that came from that came from from nothingness that didn't come from from anybody telling me how to do it or what I see that came from a similar the trust came from my own intuition yeah trust surrender yeah but my intuition said see I told my wife when I got that I said I'm not doing any interviews I taught I said I'm not doing this you know and she said you keep saying bad haha I mean things you protested too much I said but I'm not doing any interview should not visit and then she said read read the letter and I and I read the letter and and I said she said what is your intuition say what is God telling you you know what is it great what I'm telling you you know how may i sir that's my mantra how may I serve how may I serve how may I serve always ask that not what's in it for me but how may i sir and and as I as I kept saying that I said my intuition says do it she said call him and do it well and I have another thanks to make one go down there so is it but we do that with each other all the time it's like that and that it's like trusting that intuition you know it's a very very powerful thing and it's like it never ever guides you wrong the only time I begin all my investments that I've made since and I have a whole financial philosophy of giving a certain percentage of it away away unconditionally yeah and also paying yourself first you know it's like reinvesting what you make back in in yourself and in your family and all that the only time I've ever taken a loss financially in any my investments was when I ignored my intuition once and I invested in something that was not conducive to the environment I don't want to say what it was because it's neither my purpose to plug nor - to blame anything else but my intuition said no way this isn't there they're doing something that is in conflict with what you believe right but the yields were high and they were guaranteed and it was like and I put one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars into this thing and they they went bankrupt and I lost that hundred fifty Python but I gained something cuz you never forget those lessons yeah was a great lesson and since then I've only every time I invest anything I always ask where's this money going what's it going to be doing and then it just comes back to me like tenfold so it's all been made up in many many ways so it's like I ignored my intuition once and I and I paid a price but I learned it was a great lesson was a terrific list what's the purpose of life purpose of life is real simple for me it's a Joe Goldsmith has a wonderful book called parentheses and eternity and you are a parenthesis he says your life as a parenthesis and eternity it opens at your conception it closes at your death but eternity surrounds it so that there was an instant before you came into form if you believe in eternity in which you went from formless to form the question to ask is not how did I do it did I sign up for it did God do it is it a Big Bang Theory which is an interesting metaphor or or whatever it's like don't ask that question because that that's like that's just trying to analyze that is to break apart something that is not breakable the DAO is trying to understand the Duff said ask the question why why would you go from formless to form the answer to that is so simple for me it's like I used to wonder about that all the time and that was sex awesome you can't get anything while you're here in this parenthesis you can't have a thing you think you can own it you don't get any of it you it's the the jewelry that adorns you adorns another in another instant the house that you own the cars that all of that kind of stuff that's like that's just all like a little loan and a little lease and then it's it's gone and if you get attached to it anyway it'll destroy you so you can't have anything so if you can't have anything if you can't get anything while you're here then purpose must have something to do with with giving rather than getting and to me the purpose of life is to give the purpose of life is to enrich the lives of others in some way the measure of your life will not be in the duration of your life it will be measured in the donations of your life then what you are able to give of yourself because you can't get anything the only thing you can do with your life is give it away yeah you can just give it away every day your form deteriorates a little more that's heading towards the closing of parentheses and once you know that then you know that you can't have anything you can't stop that nobody can stop that so all you can do is just keep giving you and the more you give away the more that comes back what goes around comes around is not just a funny little song title it is a powerful powerful message and understanding it base basically shifts the quality of life why sure Tony it's like getting your life on purpose if your purpose of life is to give then get your life on purpose and get everything that you do on purpose if you're driving a cab don't be thinking about how much of a fare you're going to get think about how can I serve this person and let the fair take care of itself if you're a salesperson then you're thinking about my quotas and what I'm going to get you're not on purpose if you're thinking about the quotas of the person you're serving that person is going to send you 21 names tomorrow of people that they want you to serve as well like the more you give in anything that you do if you're a dentist don't think about how much money you can make think about making this person's tooth in his mouth as healthy as it can be the universe will take care of the rest purpose means giving not getting and once you get that and and it's like that's how you have to orient your whole business that's how I've waited my entire business of my books do you know that everybody who writes me a letter gets a book it's fantastic no charge whatsoever no expectations no nothing and anybody who writes me and says this tape didn't work they get a free set you know I don't know I don't make any difference I don't want to hear about somebody wrote me a letter from Seattle and they came all the way over to hear me at that program that I was on that I'd mentioned I was the keynote speaker I was the last speaker and they had to go back because their father was sick and they spent a hundred dollars and they could and they were very upset I sent her the hundred dollars and the set of the tapes of the whole day it's like that's what I believe in do it except when people tell me I have to do it I've got to say okay I think there's one organizing principle for you and that's freedom right is because a gift is not a gift when it's somebody telling you what to do then it's a they expect it that's a dick yeah and I want any debts we live by the same philosophy there so if you demand for me that I give you something or tell me that I have to give it to you you're not giving me an opportunity to give you're just giving me a debt and I've got enough of those yeah this is wonderful I've been great a great interview yeah really nice and it's like it gives us a connection yeah yeah what makes Wayne Dyer laugh I'd be curious cuz I know you're easy to smile laughing what really what gives you the most tickle the most joy in your life huh I think myself I think I make myself laugh and I laugh at myself I really kill ya I really see the folly of it all I mean if you ever listen to me speak in public most of my laughs are just like poking fun of myself yeah I poked fun at not having any hair I've been using that for a year you know I just told you this is not really a bald head it's a solar panel for a sex machine you know that's kind and and also much hummin my children really make me laugh my baby especially I mean when they're babies it's exactly because babies are under say - you know they they make me laugh my little boy I only have one little boy and six daughters and that little guy it's just you know last night I mean 11 o'clock at night we were we were both laughing so hard and in the bed in my little studio that's where we went on and sleep at night and just telling stories I asked him - he always says tell me a scary story so will you tell me one and he I mean he just made up the funniest craziest kind of children make me laugh animals make me laugh but I really I really laugh at at the folly of it all I mean so many people think that we come into this world and we have just a short time and then it's over and there's no there's no joy there's no laughter and that to me I mean I'm laughing at someone once said that there he said I don't try to make my audience laugh he said I try to make God laugh that's great and I really like that thanks guys yeah I think he's laughing all the time yeah that's right yeah there's a wonderful story that Yogananda tells of of a black man in the south back in the 40s and 50s when it was really really terrible down there for and he worked in a white church and all-white Baptist Church where they wouldn't allow me he was the janitor and they wouldn't allow any any black people to come in and worship and over and over he would ask the minister couldn't I just come in and worship with you on Sunday that's all I really want to do in the minister said to him over and over again I can't let you do that I would lose my job I would like to but I can't so finally he went and got into deep prayer and and in his deep prayer he asked Jesus you know why why Christ why can't I just pray with those same people where I work every Sunday and Jesus responded to him I've been trying to get into that church for twenty years and they won't even let me and it was like it's a metaphor think that they're praying to me but I decade okay so or Churchill had a great one of the great lines of all time we'll talk about humor been great people he was a man that I really admired I remember the day he died I was teaching at a school in Detroit at Pershing High School in the inner-city and Churchill was in the hospital and he was Prime Minister in 1945 in here just after the war was over he was having such a struggle with parliament and all that and he had to go into the hospital for surgery and a nurse came in and she was she had to give him a bedpan because he couldn't get out of bed and she was carrying out his bedpan and and he started laughing uproariously and she said what in the world are you laughing about and he said I was just thinking that that's the first movement of mine that's been carried out since I've been Prime Minister all the great ones I've ever have that kind of a sense of humor that's makes me laugh those moment yeah that makes me one how do you want to be remembered I I don't care if I am yeah I had a feeling it would be yeah I really I've thought about that and I just do you want to be remembered by your children doesn't matter yeah I just want to be with them while I'm here and love them and and be as loving as I can and and then whatever they do with it it will be what they do with it whatever see I always tell my children that your reputation is is not in your hands like you and I both have a very public reputation yeah but I've heard some wonderful things about you and I've heard some really scabby things about you and vice versa but it's not your reputation is located in all the other people if you give a talk to 2,000 people you got 2,000 reputations that's true you have no control over whatsoever you go to school I tell my child you go to school there's 30 kids in your class and there's you've got 30 reputations every day you have not the only thing you have control over is your character here and that that is yours so it's like when you do go out into the world don't be concerned about how you'll be remembered because that's just gonna be if there's 10 million people exposed to you there's going to be ten million remembrances just be concerned about your character and that's what I try to do I try to walk the talk it's clear you're doing I'm yeah I think your greatest gift is that you are a character yeah that's true I am yeah I'm appreciate this time with you very very much thank you god bless you it out you

Channel: Tony Robbins

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Length: 36min 41sec (2201 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 31 2015