Our Role In Evolution | Neale Donald Walsch

I find myself wanting to say with without hoping without wanting to appear falsely modest it's not about false modesty but I find myself wanting to say that I had very little to do with all that's just been talked about here I simply took dictation honestly I didn't create any of the messages I didn't produce any of the wisdom I didn't reveal any of the solutions to life's mysteries I simply took dictation and I'm grateful to God and to life that I had the opportunity to do that and I want to begin my chat with you today by allowing you to know that this is not something that is exclusive to me this experience that in fact and if I hear one question more than any other from people around the world when I make a few appearances people say to me how can I have that experience or how how can I have my own conversation with God and or can I even have my own and the answer of course is all of you in this room know the answer is yes and you are doing it all the time God is talking to all of us all the time it's not a question of to whom is God talking it's a question of who's listening what we want to make sure we don't do is dismiss the information I want to say the data almost I want to say to dismiss the data that we're receiving from that source of divine wisdom and clarity that resides within all of us and dismiss it as either coincidence or serendipity or not meaningful or perhaps you know you know what's interesting many people dismiss the information they receive from source of wisdom within them because it's too good to be true and and they hear these extraordinarily positive and powerful messages and they literally reject them and and do not act on them because they're too good to be true and I've I'm in that category I said to God in the dialogue you may remember that passage where I said gosh this all seems too good to be true and God said to me well if if God can't be too good to be true who can so I didn't really have a good answer to that question it's exactly right so if it's if the message you're receiving about yourself about your future about our collective future about your talents about your gifts about the Wonder and the joy of who you are and all of it really if the information you're receiving seems almost too good to be true then let yourself embrace it let yourself accept it let yourself hold it as in fact the truth about you coming from the place inside of you that knows the truth and is the truth now having said that the title of today's talk is our role in evolution and thank you for showing up and deciding to be here for this brief time that we can share together this morning and let's consider that title our role in evolution I presume you wouldn't be here in the room if you if it didn't have it hold at least some interest for you what is our role in evolution I'd like to begin by saying that our role in evolution has nothing to do with everybody else so don't feel like oh oh I got this burden or this assignment or this you know process I have to engage in that's going to you know produce an evolutionary leap for humankind so just to know that the role in evolution that you are being invited to play by life itself has nothing to do with everybody else and it has everything to do with everybody else so it's one of those divine the economies that are often spoken of in the conversations with God material it's a divine dichotomy where two apparently contradictory truths exist simultaneously in the same space so your role in evolution has nothing to do with everybody else and it has everything to do with everybody else but to clarify that apparent contradiction it begins and I know you've heard this a thousand times I'm sorry to bring you nothing new this morning but you know I probably should have said that at the beginning I have nothing new to say this morning you could also all have that just gotten up and left and it would have been an easy easier morning for all of us but but it's important to know that I have nothing new to say and the reason you're here is not to be enlightened or appraised of or opened to something new but merely to be reminded I want to suggest to you that you brought yourself here this morning to be reminded of what you already know of what you already understand so if it sounds like I'm saying you know things you've heard a thousand times before from a hundred other so-called messengers and teachers and read in a hundred other books and heard yourself in your own mind from the source of your wisdom if it sounds like all I'm doing is repeating all of that know that that's process that's what's going on that was designed to be that way you brought yourself here not to hear anything new in my view but to remind yourself of what you already know so the process of evolution invites us to answer a question to make a decision a major decision though that we need to address today in my view and the decision is not whether you will participate in the process of evolution but how you see you cannot not participate in the process of evolution you're participating in that process automatically by the living of your life so it's not a question of whether you're going to participate even in the larger process that may in fact affect other people's because you are already participating so the question is not whether you will participate but how and I hope to be able to answer or to offer you an answer that's come to be true for me and see whether it fits in your reality as well this morning but before I do that before we get into the how let me just take a tiny diversion here and talk about why and those of you who were with me the other day for the all-day event heard a little bit of this but to share it with many of you who are not there the why the why of it well I mean like why bother why can't we just get on with our lives you know just do what we do and get on with our lives why bother engaging in the process of evolution in a conscious way I'm gonna make that delineation in a conscious way because as I just said a minute ago we're all involved in the process whether we know it or not whether we're doing it consciously or not we're engaging in the process of our own Ellucian by the choices and decisions by the words thoughts and actions that emerge from us in their life that's what's going on we're evolving we can't not do that but we can not do it consciously that is we can find ourselves doing it unconsciously and so the question becomes how are we going to engage in that process and I think the answer to that question how somehow emerge is more urgently when we look closely at why why bother the question why is answered by taking a look at what we're doing here to begin with but even before we do that let's take a look at how we're doing on the planet I took a little I made a few notes here on why we may choose as a collective to engage ourselves to involve ourselves in the process of our evolution my dear friends I don't want to begin this Sunday morning with a downer but I do think it's important for us to look at the nature of things just briefly for three or four minutes to take a look at why why engage in the process of our own evolution and the evolution of the species it's simple it's now or never time we are a self-destructive species whether we're willing to acknowledge it or not humanity is a self-destructive species that is we are killing ourselves and killing each other and we can't find a way to stop it we don't seem as I was told in conversations with God we can't even find a way to stop from killing each other and from killing ourselves much less you know the smaller goals can we just get along can we find a little happiness and peace and joy in our life but forget about those goals we can't even stop killing each other and we're doing it in a thousand ways all the time where as an example we're poisoning ourselves and each other by the way we treat the environment and we can't even admit it half of us can't even an old Neil don't start with the environment stuff well we're poisoning our rivers and our streams and the air and the ground and you and we can't as a species even admit it much less stop it we're sentencing thousands to death by the way we make modern medicine and and modern medical miracles available only to the well-to-do millions of people can't even have access to the medicines or the to the procedures that extend life on this planet and I speak from experience those of you were there at Friday know that I've recently about 18 months ago less than 18 months ago had open-heart surgery and it was a remarkable procedure or they another slice you open and they do what they do and they do a bypass and I had a quintuple quintuple bypass so but you know but to think of something like that in the middle of certain countries of the world which will go nameless would be impossible so I when I emerged from the operation I was aware of not only the miracle of what had occurred but the miracle that it had occurred that I was able to access that kind of a procedure to see there's nothing to sneeze at you got to work with what's going on in the room folks we're killing ourselves by the way we feed ourselves watch what you're putting into your own body you're killing yourself and and and we don't seem actually to care it's like we don't kneel don't start with that now but we're killing ourselves we're cutting our lives short for sure by the way we're feeding ourselves or or not feeding some of us by the way we're not feeding some of us I don't know whether you're aware or not but statistics from the United Nations and other agencies like that tell us that 656 children die on this planet every hour from starvation yeah you heard that right I didn't say every week or every day every hour 656 children die of starvation because of the way we're not feeding ourselves we can't even we can't even get food to them we're killing ourselves by the way we use bombs and missiles to solve our differences and resolve our disagreements I'll show you my missile is bigger than yours [Laughter] it is by the way but that's another [Laughter] [Music] we're killing ourselves by the way we sell cert the substances like tobacco or street drugs and we sell that stuff knowing that it is killing us to buy it and use it and there are probably two or three people in this room that are still buying and using those substances no judgement here just an observation just noticing it we see we're a self-destructive species only only a very young species immature would do something that they know in advance is not good for them O'Neill stop it you got a cigarette I need to get you know this guy Walsh is hard to take we're killing ourselves AHA by the way we use assault weapons assault rifles easily obtainable by children 18 years old I mean you can't buy you can't you can't get certain prescriptions at that age but you can buy an assault rifle you don't have to register it you do have to let anybody know you got it you can buy as many as you want you didn't have ten of them if you want like some people do so you can get in there and and and kill as many people as fast as possible and we do that in this in this world we're killing each other by creating startlingly realistic images of violence and killing and putting them on huge screens in movie theaters and on television screens as well and calling it your ready entertainment look at some of the movies that we're watching and we called this entertainment and we criticize you know that they went into the Colosseum the Romans watching you know it would be with the Lions and the we thought you know I went to the I was in Rome a few years ago and I went to the Colosseum and I thought how could people how could people have actually sat in these concrete seats you know and watched the Lions attacking that the Christians huh how could they have called that entertainment and sheared and then I realized okay maybe we're not doing it in real time in real life but we're not that far removed after all these centuries we've stopped doing it live in person but we've we've created the most incredible images of it so we can continue to look at the horror and the devastation of violence and killing in front of us on a huge screen sometimes in 3d and we call it entertainment or worse yet we call it games and we put our children at the age of six seven eight and nine in front of you guys replayed oatmeal it's just a game it's just a game until I get an actual rifle in my hand and go to high school just a few years later and we wonder where did they get such an idea where did where did these kids get such an idea but we put them in front of this that could become our babysitter's we're killing each other in the most unusual way we actually kill people deliberately with malice aforethought total awareness by the authority of the state that is the government kills people in order to teach people that killing people is not okay and we fail to see the contradiction we call it the death penalty I'll teach you not to kill people I'll kill you deliberately totally ignoring Einstein's brilliant insight that you cannot solve any problem using the identical energy that created it nor will we try to solve violence with violence solve anger with anger and murder with murder I got an idea give the teachers weapons that's it that's it why didn't I think of that yeah yeah put a gun in the hand of every teacher in all the classrooms that'll stop the killing yeah [Music] I mean in an insane asylum the inmates have taken over the asylum what's going on and finally we had one last note here I wanted to read oh yeah that was the most important one of all we kill people in the name of God we use God as our justification for killing other people we can call it by lots of names but we kill people in the name of God and we've been doing it for centuries on this planet that's the species of which we are members now I understand that none of you are part of a part of most of that well you will see what you have for lunch maybe you'll stop killing yourself prematurely but we'll see how many of you leave here you know with go outside and have it take a little break little cigarette break but other than that you're probably not part of the the larger problems that I've just described but we're certainly all witnessing it and it's getting to the point where we wake up in the morning almost nervous to turn on the internet or read the paper paper yeah that was a flimsy substance that you'd hold in your hand that had words printed on it in the morning it actually read off of it it's called a newspaper we didn't want to turn the news on like what's happening what's going on how can it get any worse and what can be done if anything to make it better and that becomes the question of the day so let's look at how we can participate if we choose to make it better because guys ladies and gentlemen truly honestly and then all joking aside it's now or never time it happens in the next twenty or thirty years and that's a long stretch or it's not going to happen at all so this is about the future of yourself if you're a younger person certainly of your children absolutely of your children's children this that's what we're talking about here if any of that matters to you then you'll want to listen carefully to some of the tools I hope to share about our role in evolution again nothing new you're going to realize you've heard all this before but as a reminder so let's take a look at those ways that you can involve yourself in the process of evolution and let's begin by remembering what I said at the outset it has to do with you and you and you and you what have I done speaking about myself and you get to ask yourself the same question what have I done today to move forward my own evolutionary journey my own evolutionary process so I'm going to give you a tool that I'd like you to consider using in your life I call this tool and it was given to me by the way in conversations with God the four fundamental questions of life I invite you to determine what is your role in the evolution of yourself and your species by using this tool and I'm going to invite you to use the tool every day every morning when you wake up in fact you may want to use it two or three times a day perhaps morning noon and night wouldn't be a bad idea at the beginning at least and as you until you get yourself used to living inside the context of that tool the tool I call the four fundamental questions of life these are four questions that most people live their entire lives and never ask themselves much less answer some of you in this room again I realize I'm speaking here to the cognoscenti those who know and by the way if you think it's easy to use the word cognoscenti in a sentence try it sometime you have to really fight hard to fit it in I realized I'm sitting here in front of those who know and you know I've observed that people fall into a number of different categories there are those who don't know and they don't know that they don't know they are innocent like children nurture them there are those who don't know but they are willing to know they are students teach them then there are those who don't know but they think that they know they are dangerous avoid them then there are those who know but who don't know that they know they are illusory living in the dilemma of their own illusions they're asleep wake them then there are those who know and who know that they know these are acog Musante those who know don't follow them blindly but listen very carefully to what they have to say because they may just remind you and others as well who have temporarily forgotten that they know because there's another category here there are those who know but pretend that they don't know they are actors enjoy them let them enjoy their dramas but only up to a certain point and then wake them up wake up wake up wake up you just made that all up you just made that all up stop it get back to who you really are which is the first of the four fundamental questions of life if you wake up every morning and look at yourself in the mirror after the UGG communites where I start you know just but then you know I saw some cold water and I feel a little bit better and I look at myself and I realize you know it's not so bad it could be worse and then I've graduated from not so bad could be worse - I get better and better every day then I asked myself the first of the four fundamental questions of life I've trained myself to do this every morning when I wake up first question Who am I this is the big decision that you have an opportunity to make today we talked about this on Friday for those of you who were there forgive the repetition but I have only one message Who am I becomes the key question of your life are you a physical entity a physical being a chemical creature if you please you know combination of chemical elements that forms and shapes itself this way as opposed to forming and shaping itself as a dolphin or a whale or a bird in the sky or a fish in the sea just another biological chemical entity in this particular form and you may think that this is the most sophisticated of all the life forms on the planet I wouldn't guarantee that by the way there's some question as to whether dolphins and whales may have a way to engage in their society that's far more elevated than our own but that's another whole web another whole workshop I'll let Lisa Nichols handle that one [Laughter] love you Lisa just kidding but but is that who we are basically a chemical creature that we you know we were born we live we have this experience we die and that's it or is it possible just possible that we're more than that that we are actually not a chemical creature but a spiritual entity a spiritual entity that has a body and a mind but that is not their body and their mind just understands that that's something you have like equipment tools so you have your body and your mind but you're not your body in your mind but you are that which has a body and a mind if you decide that that's who you are and many of you in this room have already made that decision yes that's that describes me I am a spiritual entity with a body in the mind but that mean needs must ask ourselves the next obvious question why why would I have a body and a mind what am i what am I doing with these tools what's the point of it why would my spirit put me here of all places and caused me to stay here for 20 30 40 50 60 70 or more years I never thought I'd reach the age that I am I'm an old person I wake up in the morning and I look at in the mirror really and I say wow still here you know I like like 74 years old which is there's a lot of you not bad for 74 [Applause] [Laughter] you know I was telling somebody other day at dinner I started my career I started my my public career as a stand-up comic not many people know that but I did I did stand-up and I clearly still do and oh gosh so here you know here I still am and that never really never really imagined that I would make it to this age and this is not old there are people in the audience right here are way older than I am like you sir and a few of them and still haven't answered the question to their own satisfaction still haven't come to a conclusion after all those years really truly honestly what's it all about Alfie what am I doing here what what what's the agenda somebody tell me the agenda somebody give me the rules I'll play I promise I'll play just give me the rulebook and after you give me the rules don't change them because they keep changing every 24 hours what are the rules and what am I doing here what's the point if we are in fact spiritual and but I'm just curious just take a quick survey survey says how many of you think of yourself as a spiritual entity not simply a chemical creature that's practically everybody in the room with the lady in the second row of two chairs and please leave the room she didn't leave she didn't even have the energy to raise her hand she's like no I'm a spiritual entity but I am NOT gonna knock her over she said I didn't want to brag [Applause] [Laughter] so if you really imagine yourself to be a spiritual entity and not simply a chemical creature really and truly there have to be some morning's of your life some days of your existence sometimes driving down the road or in the shower stall or whatever one you have to examine the question you must have once in a while ask yourself why I mean really what's the objective what's the purpose what's the point of having come here and gone through what I've gone through and every one of us has our story every one of us has our story that could bring you to tears really that happened to you really really you're going through that now my god so every one of us has a right to sit up and say excuse me God excuse me but just why but when we answer the question why we suddenly accelerate the evolutionary process and when we live into the answer why that has become an example of living the answer when we become a model of the answer an exemplar if I dare use the word when we become that we not only accelerate the evolutionary process within ourselves but in fact within lives of all those whose lives we touch and suddenly life has a dual purpose so let's take a look at that let's let's assume that we are most of us in this room are correct in declaring that we are spiritual entities that have a body and a mind so the next other questions I'll give you the four questions all at once Who am I where am I why am I where I am what do I intend to do about that if you answer these questions every day and by the answer that by the way the answer could change from day to day indeed in fact the answer can change from hour to hour and let that be okay with you let the answer be fluid let yourself will recreate yourself anew in every golden moment of now in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about who you are so let yourself step into the fluidity of that answer but live the answer each day here are the questions again Who am I where am I why am I where I am and what do I intend to do about that let's look at the answer to the second question where am I while I was told the I'm going to give you my answers you could decide whether they resonate with you or not if they my answers came directly from God so if they don't resonate with you you're going to hell but beyond that [Laughter] she said I don't think that's funny at all is it come on the whole room is laughing surely you got the joke where where am I where where what is this flat I mean like what room of the hotel or what City no but I mean like where what is this place this it turns out it's the realm of the physical we are in the realm of the physical if you please and I was told that there are actually three realms in the kingdom of God or if you please in ultimate reality and by three realms let me just say I mean I've been advised that there are three particular experiences or expressions of life if I could put it that way the experience of spirituality was a spiritual realm the experience of physicality or the physical realm and the experience of pure being the realm of pure being which is the other two combined if I could put it in simple terms so we move from the realm of the spiritual to the realm of the physical and from the realm of the physical back to the realm of pure being then down to give a triangle then back down to the realm of the spiritual over to the realm of the physical to the realm of pure being and we make that journey if you please the journey of the soul unendingly throughout all of eternity and it is intended to be a joyous an extraordinary journey of not just self-discovery but actually self creation the purpose of which is for each element of life itself each expression of life to know itself in its truest identity or to put it in simple terms for us to understand and to experience ourselves as individuals of divinity so that's the agenda that's where we are in the realm of the physical and the agenda is for us to be able to demonstrate an experience at the level of salt using the tools of the body on the mind to experience ourselves and express ourselves as who we really are individuation of divinity that divinity may know itself in as and through you and there have been a few select individuals in human history who've actually said that out loud they've actually said so much as I am divine I am that which is divine and I've come here to demonstrate that so that I might know myself as that they also said so are you we didn't believe the second part of their statement we said oh yeah yet you are but not me so we turned them into items of worship rather than simply human beings whose example we could follow interestingly enough and created all sorts of turmoil around that including killing other people in the name of that person hard as that is to believe but that was then and this is now and we do live in a more enlightened age so here we are at this point in time allowing ourselves to engage the central question of life once more in a powerful and dynamic way Who am I an individual of divinity where am I in the realm of the physical which by the way may also be called by second name you could also call it the realm of the relative in the realm of the spiritual it is always here always now in all there is is love that is there is no there are no relative terms this you could call it the realm of the absolute this being the realm of the absolute this being the realm of the relative and we move from the realm of the absolute to the realm of the relative for a very good reason the soul makes that journey because in the realm of the app salud it can no itself absolutely as what it is but it can't experience that experiencing what it knows of itself requires relativity that is it requires that which you are not in order to you to experience that which you are so we move ourselves into what I would call loosely the realm of the relative where all things are relative to each other up and down left and right here there before and after now and then male and female created he them all of these relative terms so that we might announce then declare Express and fulfill become an experience who we really are in the absence of who we are not the experience of who we are becomes impossible because there is nothing with which to compare it nothing with which to or through which to understand it clear so that's what we're doing here that and by the way all the great spiritual masters of all time whose lives we've recorded have told us basically the same thing each in their own words and because all those great spiritual masters have understood clearly of what I've just described to you they do not judge or condemn what they encounter in the realm of the relative they do not judge and condemn that which they are not but in fact just the opposite they actually bless it because they realize that it is the condition that they are not that allows them to experience the condition that they are so they do not condemn it or to use the words of one of those masters judge not and neither condemned judge not and neither condemn but bless bless bless your enemies and pray for those who persecute you and misuse you and be a light unto the darkness raise not your fists to the heavens and curse the darkness not but be a light unto the darkness that you might know who you really are and that all those whose lives you touch might then know who they really are as which is how we all live our lives correct you live your life exactly that way I know well once in a while but if we can begin to live our lives absent judgment to say nothing about absent punishment do you know in highly evolved societies judgment and punishment the so called justice system does not exist there's no such thing as punishment that's another whole topic for another whole retreat but think deeply and you'll understand why yeah and and and when you understand why in highly evolved societies there's no punishment you will then understand why in God's kingdom there is no punishment also I'm sure you all are aware of that God punishes us for nothing God will never punish us never judge us and there's no reason for God to do that because God understands that we are simply an emerging species barely aware of who we really are much less how to act like that so humanity as an emerging species has the complete understanding of God God would never punish us any more than you'd punish a three-year-old child for spilling the milk you simply don't do that you don't say go to your room and stay there for the next week well you you might do that because you're a very strict person but most people would not would not do that because they understand perfectly well how that could happen to someone so young and why they would make that choice why that child would make that choice to reach out and spill the milk so evolution invites us to consider our personal answer to these questions including the fourth question what do I intend to do about that Who am I where am i why am I where I am and by the way you can localize this and I suggest that each day you localize this Who am I remains the answer to that question remains the same every day but the second question where am I you can localize it you can say I am in fact in the ballroom or in the meeting room at the Marriott in La Jolla California and that's where I am why am i where I am that's the question that you get to answer next and how you answer these kinds of questions I want to repeat can be powerfully impacting in the process of your own evolution so why are you here today see ask yourself that question Who am I an individual of divinity where am I in the meeting room at the Marriott hotel in La Jolla California why am I where I am ask yourself that question why did I bring myself here was I just curious to meet the author you know I've heard about the guy kind of curious about him did I think I was gonna learn something here today that I don't already know and I came to expand my knowledge base did I come because you know my partner or my pal brought me here and I just want to join him or her and be part of the process or did I did I come here for a reason that's not even totally clear in my mind but that was inspired by my soul which brought me here intentionally to remind me of not just why I'm in this room but why I'm on this earth is it possible that I came here for such an elevated reason I mean really are we making it all up is it possible that that's X actually why we came here to this time in place to remind ourselves of the whole process and the whole purpose of life and after we answer those four fundamental questions we may find out and by the way again I want to remind you ask yourself and answer those questions at least once a day every morning let that be the beginning of your day and do it more than once a day until you get used to it if you want to but let this be part of your evolutionary process to ask and answer those questions on a regular basis and after you get into that rhythm of encountering those questions on a daily basis you will find I believe if your experience is anything like mine you'll find your whole life being rearranged your whole I want to say your whole understanding of life being rearranged everything will be changed in terms of how they feel and the and the motivation the reason for doing and saying and thinking what you're doing saying and thinking it'll really rearrange your whole life and it won't seem the same anymore it won't seem like you know it seemed before you engage this process on a regular basis you will find your priorities and life changing dramatically as you rearrange your life I didn't get this until I had my conversations with God I couldn't understand why I couldn't get my life to work it by the way I was professionally successful and I was you know successful in relationships if you if you consider sequential relationships one after the other successful I mean I had no problem you know creating relationships hey why are you laughing were you oh it's my ex out there I forgot it no wonder she's laughing at me but I had no problem you know creating relationships I did I had no problem even creating marriages I believed in the you know the the power and the magnificence and the joy and the sacredness of the marriage relationship so I did get married and I got married a second time and then I got married a third time then I got married a fourth time then I got married a fifth time then I got married a sixth time [Applause] not no yes wait it is it over then I got married a seventh time at least you can't say that I was an emotionally unavailable male [Applause] honestly I know I know you're gonna find this hard to believe and I'm not bragging about this I'm using it as an example I'm willing to be this this transparent with you right as an example because I really here's the deal I lived in a fairytale world I really believed in this as the magic wand this is going to make it forever and when it didn't I was so crushed and disappointed and was it was by the way in every case my fault which was the real the real interesting thing I thought of course that the fault was over there it was her it was her it was her if I could just find the right one what's the matter with me I can't just can't but of course it wasn't over there with great respect to all of my former wives it wasn't there it was right here and I want you to know it just as a matter of private information I have made that clear to all of them and made it right with all of them and sat down with all of them and asked them actually beg them can you possibly understand and help me to live with the fact that my personal growth did so much damage to you I'm so sorry that I had to hurt you as I did so that I could somehow grow into grow up Neil grow up and I wasn't even just about my relationships about my career the whole business of making money the whole business of what I was gonna do with the days and times of my life the whole fall of blacks was not so I didn't get it I finally sat down when I had my first conversation with got a nice big God come on come on if you're God then you clarify it help me out here what does it take to make life work I can remember sitting on the couch crying out at 4 o'clock in the morning what do you want from me don't I get here God said kneel it's really very simple you think your life is about you and your life has nothing to do with you it's about everyone whose life you touch and the way in which you touch it what what my life isn't about me not local hue yes it's about universal you in the sense that you and everyone else are one but it's not about individual localized you the you you think of as Neil I've given you everything you need you simply haven't used what I've given you I've given you every gift you could possibly ask for compassion awareness intelligence indeed wisdom clarity understanding generosity all the wonderful things you think of as being supremely human I've given you and you and you you lack none of that but you have imagined that your life is about you so you think you've got to somehow gather these things you think you don't have or someone find a way to make yourself secure in a world that doesn't see you as who you really are so you've got to do stuff to earn money and you got to do stuff to earn love and you have to do stuff to make relationships work and all these things you have to do and all you would really have to do if you really got it was just be who you are the divine being who you are that can't be hurt damaged destroyed upset frustrated and angered or moved into any negative space for any negative reason whatsoever to hold the space of who you are or evolve into that if you please and use life's events as opportunities with which to do that and if you simply did that you would find that everything else that you thought you had to strain for and stress for and struggle for would fall in on you automatically virtually without effort or someone far more eloquent and I will ever be once said in his own words don't go around asking what have we to eat what are we to drink wherewithal will we close ourselves seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added unto you and so I began to follow that instruction I began to live my life and that's the message that I offer you here today as well I began to live my life as if my life had nothing to do with me as if I needed nothing required nothing lacked nothing demanded nothing even in a sense requested nothing but simply chose to use the days and times the minutes the hours the events of my life as opportunities for me to demonstrate that I already have all of that that I am the source of it but I am NOT looking for some other person place or event to source it to me but then I am the source of all the things I thought I needed to struggle and strain for I am the source of that in the lives of everyone whose life I touch or as someone else said gosh could we dare to repeat what he said I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly who says that unless you really think you are divine who says that but what have you said it just as an experiment try it just today for once just try it once see if it shifts your ground of being if you try it just for shall we say an hour sometime today for one hour today walk into the space whatever space you're walking into maybe it's the lunchroom the restaurant who knows wherever you are pick an hour today and allow yourself just for that hour to think to yourself I wouldn't say it out loud probably would advise against saying it out loud but allow yourself to think it in your mind sincerely really all joking aside what if for just one hour today you said in your mind I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly there's no other reason for me to be here I need nothing from you not your admiration not your love not your approval certainly not your physical things I don't need your money I don't need your car I don't need your house I don't need your body I don't need anything honestly I need nothing from you I have but one desire to make sure that you see that you know that you experience that you understand and that you have an opportunity to express who you really are I have come here to give you back to yourself and the extraordinary thing about that is should you live your life that way even a few hours here or there that way it's an amazing thing that will happen people will suddenly look at you for at first they'll say what are you on what are you smoking but after they get that no this is the new you this is to transform you this is the evolved you you finally after all these years figured out what you're doing here and figured out that it has nothing to do with you it has to do with all those who have forgotten failed to remember that they too have been given everything but they don't know it they don't believe it because it's too good to be true it's too good to be true so the question in life through which you engage and accelerate your evolution is can you believe the highest thought you ever dared to hold about yourself and then if you actually embrace and hold that thought as your truth I'm not making it up I'm not imagining it I'm not spinning out here this is actually what's true about me then when you embrace that highest grandest thought you ever had about yourself then you can embrace that thought about others as well only when I see who I am and embrace Who I am at the highest level can I possibly see who you are so I see that my life in that sense has nothing to do with me it's about everyone whose life I touch and the way in which I touch it and I want to repeat should you choose to live your life in that way it will shock you it will amaze you how life life's events life's circumstances life's situations come to you without effort I've been married to my seventh wife now for ten wonderful years and she doesn't mind my telling this story because I'm not bragging about I'm wanting to illustrate this is an illustration so this is not a brag this is not a boast this is an illustration not only have I had ten wonderful years with this extraordinary woman she asked me to marry her and I knew that she was extraordinary when I met her it was really love at first sight I was like oh my god I mean after all my failures and all my inability how could I be blessed but I had made that shift you see I had made that shift I want you to know in life shift happens [Applause] so I had made that change because I had received that message in my conversations with God and I was beginning to treat myself and other people in the ways that I'm describing I hadn't reached mastery obviously I wasn't walking on water and none of that I'm not claiming that but I did make a huge change in the way I was experiencing myself and interacting with other people and so that was the person she met she didn't meet this guy who had had these six other relations marriages she met this person I'm describing now just starting off on that path but even just starting off on it made such a huge difference that she sat in the car beside me we were driving down the road one day we had known each other well I want to say we had known each other in the biblical sense and he knew her for about five or six maybe eight days as I recall it was just over a week we had been close to each other and we're driving down the road and she looked at me from the car she said I think we should be married don't say that to me twice she said no really I really think we should be married done [Laughter] and we flew to Las Vegas two days later and we did you know the three hour marriage thing you know you go to the you go to the courthouse you get the license you go to a marriage chapel and you walk out and you're married that was 10 wonderful years ago 10 years with the greatest gift of my life and you may think that what I said the greatest gift in my life I met my wife although she is a huge gift the greatest gift of my life was my finally learning what love was really all about love understood finally it had nothing to do was here here's how I related over there but I could only relate that way to my wife if I was clear that I needed nothing required nothing demanded nothing was lacking nothing searching for nothing not even searching for love but that I was the source of all that I was searching for I am the source dare I say that out loud much less dare I live it in my life and that which you source to another comes back to you automatically here's the formula that they didn't tell me in high school in grade school in my family of origin nobody said it directly to me that which you source to another comes back to you automatically for an astonishingly simple and clear reason there's only one of us in the room of course what I give to you I give to me of course because there's nobody else here there's only one of us in the room you gotta forgive me I cry at my own stuff this is life-changing information that you all already know and I know that you know I haven't come here today to enlighten you but I have come here to enlighten you that is to lighten you up to help you get cleared that all you think you need to stress and strain and struggle for will fall in on you automatically without you having to reach for it at all when you become the source it's like magic you become the sorcerer when you become this so look at make a list when you get to your room tonight of three things you wish you had more of in your life this is an interesting exercise make a list of three things you wish you had more of in your life right now whatever it might be and then tomorrow make your self experience that you are the source of those three things one of those three things in the life of another by the way here's what's interesting about this exercise when you do this exercise three things I would like more of in my life in the next 48 hours in the next 48 to 72 hours in the next two or three days you will meet someone who absolutely feels they have less of that than than they want and is looking for that actually begging life for it and you can be the source of that in their life and what's what moves through you sticks to you that's the magic formula as you become the source of it in the life of another whatever it is financial help companionship whatever it might be wisdom clarity as you become the sort of that in the life of another it flows through you and sticks to you that is you have a sudden realization that you already have that to give you just didn't think that you did until somebody else needed it even more than you and then you give them that compassion that understanding that clarity that companionship that patience that awareness that wisdom that love you give them that and then you realize oh my gosh oh my gosh I had it here all along I had it here all along and the more I give the more I received why didn't somebody tell me this at the beginning why do they have to wait til I was a half century old to hear this so I want you to know that these wisdoms are what can change your life overnight but be careful be careful because your life will change people will look at you and say what's up what what did you drink the kool-aid what happened to you what's going on with you and you will say I have embraced at last who I really am and why I really came here and I become clear and I have become the source and I have evolved into that and I've just begun that process of evolution will go on now forever and even forevermore now don't end it stuff don't end your relationship or end your job or quit your job or you know or move to a different city or think that somehow everything you know all the cars have to be thrown in the air and everything in your whole life has to change it's not necessary not necessary for you to do that so don't think that transformation means disruption you can continue to do the day-to-day doing this is of your life much as you've done them before but you will find that you'll be doing it for a different reason you'll find that you will be going to work engaging in your relationship even smaller things like eating this particular meal as opposed to that wearing this and not that you'll find that you'll be doing the things that you are doing in your life for an entirely different reason as a demonstration everything that you think say and do will suddenly become a demonstration of who you now understand yourself to be and why you now understand yourself to be right here right now in this time and place and your life will be driven by what I call the magic question here's a magic question that I invite you to ask yourself in advance of any decision any choice that comes up for you in life it could be a small choice like as I mentioned what's on the menu for lunch it could be a small choice like gee I wonder what I'll have for lunch or it could be a large choice like gee I wonder who I'll live the rest of my life with or what will I do for my career or what is my you know what is the gift I have to give or whatever the large choice might be small or large before any choice is made by you engage what I call the magic question here it comes already and what does this have to do with the agenda of my soul and what does this have to do with the agenda of my soul let's say let's say you're in the kitchen and your beloved and you are not having the most pleasant moment it happens even between people who love each other dearly something didn't go quite right and there's a little bit of a tiff not a big blowout not a big argument but a little bit of you know unpleasantness and you stop yourself from reacting the way you might have reacted in the past me me I would be defensive aggressive even mildly attacking and of course always right what are you laughing at I was always right in every case inevitably I was right right was simply on my side you are in deep trouble lady so so you know but but now now when that moment happens is it it happens in the lives of all of us there's just a little bit of an unpleasantness did it starts to go and I stopped myself and I asked myself life's magic question and what does this have to do with the agenda of my soul I get a phone call at 2:00 in the afternoon here you want to have dinner tonight we're having a few friends over we just took kind of a spontaneous thing how about coming by you and your sweetheart we'll have a nice evening and what does this have to do with the agenda and my soul seriously you get you want to go to see movie tonight there's a great film and what does this have to do with the agenda of my soul and large questions as well would you go to Croatia and Serbia in March to give a talk there will you go to Estonia in July and give a talk there will you go to Peru in August and give a talk there all questions I've had to answer in the past three weeks will you go to Mexico in September will you go to Sweden in October will you will you will you and what does this have to do with the agenda of my soul but of course you can't answer the question if you don't know what the agenda of your soul is then you're at Ground Zero well I don't know what is the agenda of my soul but if you are clear that the agenda of your soul the reason you came to the earth the reason you came to the realm of the physical is that you might announce and declare express and fulfill become an experience the next grandest version of the greatest idea you ever have about held about who you are when you're clear that that's the agenda of your soul you have something against which to measure your answer to the question what does dinner with the Smiths tonight what does watching that movie tonight what does going to Peru about what is it this about and suddenly the question what's it all about Alfea is resolved oh I see I see I get it I now understand all of it and I feel peaceful and joyful and ready f.e.a.r feeling excited and ready [Music] [Applause] and all fear disappears from your life because you frankly don't care what happens in the sense of needing something that you're not getting even honestly even your own death I remember being wheeled in Dyson told this story the other day forgive me but I remember being wheeled into the operating room just before my open-heart surgery I mean if someone had told me two years ago you're gonna have to have open-heart surgery I wouldn't have believed in a million years I would have left and their fate no I'm perfectly healthy there's nothing wrong with me so but they said no you need open actually segue but you know what I remember being wheeled into that operating suite you know from the prep room and then the wheels you know the gurney was really early and I'm kind of like this is totally okay I'm gonna survive this operation or I'm not I'm okay thank you God thank you God for at least making something clear to me I begged you I begged you what do you want from me God said nothing what am I supposed to be doing here what you choose oh come on give me some answers you're supposed to have some answers God says no you give me some answers you're supposed to have some answers my job isn't to tell you what to do my job is to empower you in making the choices you wish to make and doing what you choose to do this lifetime and next lifetime and the lifetime after that and even forevermore I will be here for you to empower the choices you're making and out of the choices you're making will you create the process of your own evolution and out of that clarity we'll come your peace finally the peace that passes all understanding I could of course be wrong about all of this I want you all to understand that I don't sit here and imagine for one second that I've got all the answers for all of humanity I can only tell you what has worked for me but if you have the slightest interest in experimenting in your own life to see what could work for you to make it even better than it is now and I realize that your lives are wonderful right now I mean look where you're sitting in La Jolla California you know I know I know that this is a wonderful place to be and a lot of people already there's anybody in but here who actually lives in or near La Jolla for people look at that six people so I know it's a wonderful place to be and and you know so obviously your lives are going very well so you don't need a lot of coaching I love these coaches that come along how to increase your abundance and create the perfect relationship and how to have you know so I mean and there's probably something to that but supposing you didn't need any coaching at all supposing that you are the coach and that by the living of your life you chose to coach others in how they may find what you have found that's the invitation we are being given that is the role we are being invited by life to play in our evolution see all we need right now our coaches more coach it's more examples more exemplars more people willing to step up and say watch this let me leave you this morning with a daring thought a daring invitation could I call it even a daring challenge to be able to move through the rest of this day to say nothing of the rest of your life and saying to yourself watch me just watch me watch how I respond how I react how I am in the midst of this experience that's been challenging for all of us for all of us we all have our story but dare you say to yourself as you walk out this door this morning watch me I ending M exemplar I am a model I have self-selected I have chosen myself by the way we're all doing that with our children I'm sure you know that without being asked to those of you who have children surely know that that's exactly who you are in their lives whether you want to be or not they're watching everything you think say and do and they're going to imitate 90% of it except that which they just can't accept and then reject but imagine that if all the world were your children looking to you to bring them clarity to bring them understanding to bring them awareness to bring them an example to show them what it could be like to be so wonderful to show them impossible as they may think it is to show them that they can be just as wonderful as are you [Music] that's the role we can play in our evolution to walk out of here and decide I have self selected see no one's going to appoint you no one's going to Commission you no one's going to assign you the task no one's gonna Knight you in the field no one's gonna name you as that you have to choose that for yourself I am that that's who I am watch me watch what I do Wow what I challenged try it just for today just for this afternoon and then as you get used to as you become accustomed to living into your own magnificence and the wonder of who you are because you know you know I'm not kidding you you're aware there is no one more generous than you when the chips are down when somebody really needs something you don't say no I don't have it even when you don't think you have it you give it anyway and you find a way even when you don't think you have the money to offer other time to give or the energy you give it anyway you know you do I'm not kidding you I'm not lying to your face you know how magnificent you are we're all just one step away from being that magnificent all the time what stops us is the idea that we kneel we can't do that all the time because we have to survive I mean how could we survive I could be live we have to take care of ourselves too and by the way this is not about not taking care of yourself this is about putting yourself on the list of those you love without condition this is not about not taking care of yourself but this is about shifting your understanding of the fundamental instinct guys the fundamental instinct is not survival we've been told by anthropologists and those who know that the basic instinct of humanity is survival wrong [Music] if the Basic Instinct were survival when you're walking past a burning building and you hear the baby crying on the second floor you don't run in you run away but if you're walking by a burning building and you hear the baby on the second floor I promise you you run in you run in to save that baby because that's who you are you don't think you don't weigh the odds let's see what am I going to survive this with you automatically run in to save that baby because survival is not the fundamental instinct divinity is the fundamental instinct so how do we play the highest most powerful process in our own evolution consider when you walk out that door every moment of your life as a burning building moment I hear the baby crying I hear the soul of humanity crying out for God's sake somebody show me what I don't understand for God's sake somebody help us and when you make the decision that that somebody is going to be you then in that moment your whole life becomes a conversation with God

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Length: 88min 0sec (5280 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 02 2018