January 28, 2025 • 29 mins
We explore the powerful difference between what we declare and what we truly believe, revealing that the universe responds not to our words but to the energy behind them.
• The universe is deaf to our words but hears the energy of our beliefs
• Our beliefs set the limits to what's possible in our lives
• Mixed beliefs create mixed results in our manifestations
• We can look at our current life circumstances to discover what we truly believe
• Walt Disney's philosophy: "When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way"
• The story of impossible Broadway tickets that appeared despite being "sold out"
• How our continued belief in possibility creates doorways where others see walls
• The importance of knowing what makes you "come alive" and then doing it
Come alive in 2025! Do the work to see what makes you come alive, understand it, believe that whatever that is you can do - and then go do it.
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
So Karen's song starts with this Whatever I
think I am, I am.
Do you all know that?
Whatever you think you are, youare.
That's kind of how this works.
It's pretty simple.
Whatever I think I am, I am.
The problem is we think a lotof things about ourselves and we
wake up one day and we feellike we're amazing.
Then we wake up another day andwe feel like we're not Right.
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That's kind of how it works.
And it says whatever I think Iam, I am Amazing or not amazing,
and so, and then the song is Ideclare so I want everybody at
the top of your lungs, withouthurting your vocal cords, to
scream.
I declare on three Ready, One,two.
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Declare on three Ready One, two, three.
Margaret Owens, you did notopen your mouth One more time,
just for Margaret Owens.
Everyone.
Here we go, everybody.
One, two, three.
Okay, don't make me call youout like that.
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So I declare right, Y'all justsaid it.
How'd that feel?
Really, Did it feel good?
I'll make you do it again.
I declare Okay.
So now I want you to do this.
I want you to end that sentence.
I declare what?
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What are you declaring?
Like what?
Would you declare Genevieve?
I declare don't sit in the frontrow if you don't want to be
called on.
I'm stuck here.
I'm COD.
Oh, you're a COD.
Good, Well, here's some COD.
You ready?
What do you declare?
I declare I declare that I canhave anything I want.
Okay, too general.
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What do you want?
How about I declare an amazingacting career?
I declare an amazing actingcareer.
Yeah, but see, I believe that,Do you?
Yeah, Right now.
I do Right now.
Why?
Because I just remember who youare.
I declare.
So, Diane, what are you goingto declare?
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I declare I declare I amhealthy.
Okay, who wants that?
So let's do it.
Ready, Everybody who wants that.
And I declare I am healthy.
Okay, great, Corrine, what doyou want?
I declare love.
Who wants love?
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More love in their life?
Let's try that.
Ready.
I declare love.
Okay, great, Mindy, what do youwant?
I love that you're all sittinghere.
This is an interactive service,Just to be clear.
It's trying to get you to beinteractive with the universe.
So you're actually telling theuniverse what you want, Not just
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oh, I would love.
You know I'll get right to you,Miss Margaret.
What do you want?
Say that I declare fitness.
What I declare fitnessEverybody.
I declare fitness.
Okay, good, Margaret, Wholeness.
What does that mean?
I declare fitness.
Okay, good, Margaret.
What does that mean?
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It means all of those thingsspin out from me.
It knows what I want.
I am what I want and I want allof it.
How about I declare all of it.
You can say wholeness.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
You can say wholeness.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
Let's do that, Ready.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
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All good, Okay, Karina, Ideclare hot sex.
Oh, that wakes you up.
That gets you to applaud andtotally agree.
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Glenda, is that good for you?
Oh, Glenda's like I didn't hearher.
What did she say?
She said I'll repeat foreverybody online.
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Karina, sitting there with her18-year-old daughter, I might
add said I declare hot sex andwe've lost the internet.
So how many people are goodwith that declaration?
Leslie, she raised her hand,Robbie it's Robbie's wife, just
letting you know.
Okay, so let's all say thistogether.
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Pete, you good with that.
Okay, I wasn't expecting thistoday, but it's going to be a
good day for you, Okay, so shallwe everybody?
I declare hot sex.
I, like the, Peggy Lorbackraised her hands for that.
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That's the most I've seen outof you in months.
That's great, Okay.
So let me tell you what adeclaration is.
I want to go in a wholedifferent direction now.
The declaration is a formal orexplicit statement or
announcement.
Okay, A formal or explicit?
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That was explicit.
An explicit statement orannouncement.
So you're announcing to theworld what you declare and all
that is good.
All that is very good.
But the question then becomeswhat's behind the declaration?
So here's the title of my talktoday Behind the Words.
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And, as you know, we are set upfor Eric Bork screening tonight
.
So because we have all theselights on the screen, it's going
to make it a little bit harderto read, but for those of you
over there, look that way,because that's a lot easier to
read.
Okay, so the title of my talktoday is Behind the Words.
So we use a lot of words in ourlives.
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We say a lot of what we want.
We even get excited and are allon board with something with
our words.
But there's still somethinginside of us questioning it.
Or there's something inside ofus saying really, Do you really
mean that?
And you can act the shit.
You can act a lot.
You can act the I can't findanother word for that out of it.
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I know right, you can act theshit out of it.
Great.
Good so, and we can, because wealso are acting in a way that
we don't realize we're acting,but we are.
So the real question becomeswhat's behind your words?
What's behind the words, what'sbehind the declaration you're
making?
Because you can say I want hotsex, I want fitness, I want
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wholeness, I want all of it.
I want health, I want all thethings you said, I want a
vibrant, acting career.
You can say that all you want,but the universe does not answer
your words.
The universe is deaf.
The universe is deaf.
The universe doesn't hear words.
The universe hears action.
The universe hears the soul,the heart.
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What do you mean?
What do you really?
And this is what the universereally operates on belief.
The universe doesn't need tohear that little plant there
telling the universe it's goingto turn into a tree, because it
only knows to turn into a tree.
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Our problem is that we have thecapacity to make different
choices.
We can make a choice not to beour fullest, greatest self.
We can make a choice not to beour fullest greatest self.
We can make a choice to be ourlimited self.
We can make a choice to be weak, we can make a choice.
To be diseased, we can make anychoice we want.
That's the gift we've beengiven and that is the burden we
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have been given, Because it isdone unto you as you believe,
not as you declare and not asyou speak the words.
So this, I believe that thisteaching, this philosophy, one
of the reasons why it is not sobig and it isn't.
When you look at the worldreligions, we're not even on the
map, we don't even register.
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It is so, so minuscule, so tiny.
The number of people that areinvolved in metaphysics or
quantum metaphysics Go toquantum metaphysics and you've
just sliced metaphysics downlike by a hundred percent.
So that's what's going on.
Why is that?
Because we actually get it thatuntil we change our minds, we
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are not going to change ourlives.
That's the way this works.
Until we really become clear onwhat we believe and then
wholeheartedly declare it, fromthe belief not a lot's going to
happen, or it may happen, andthen it falls apart.
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So Ernest Holmes said this ourbelief sets the limit to our
demonstration of a principlewhich, of itself, is without
limit.
Now I've said this quote abillion times and this morning,
when I pulled it out of my verydusty Ernest Holmes book.
I was like, oh my God, this islike I feel like I've read this
for the first time, because I'mstruck by our belief sets the
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limit.
I was like, oh my God, this islike I feel like I've read this
for the first time, Because I'mstruck by our belief sets the
limit.
Our beliefs are setting limitsto our life and then, when you
go to the bottom of it, we setthe limit of a principle which
in and of itself is limitless,without limit.
So your brain, your mind, yourcapacity to think and decide and
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choose, to all of that, that iswhat is causing the limitations
in your life.
That and nothing else.
So it really behooves us tofind out what we believe,
because some of us are walkingaround declaring the hell out of
life or the heaven out of life,Declaring I declare this, I
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declare this, I declare this.
And do you ever wonder why itdoesn't come true?
And then you know what we doThrough secondary causation, we
declare it, it doesn't happen.
And now we've bought into abelief that it doesn't happen,
that those things don't happen.
I remember the first time Ireally wanted a job as an actor
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and I didn't get it.
And I was shocked because I'dgotten everything up to that
point.
When I moved to New York, I wasthe yes guy.
Every show I went for I got, Igot it, I got it, I got it.
And then all of a sudden thatwent all the way through.
For those of you who don't know, I did West Side Story all the
way through.
Yeah, that wasn't bad 40minutes all the way through West
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Side Story.
And then, after West Side Story, I was kind of a target because
I was already a Broadway starand so I'd go in.
And now I went kind of a targetbecause I was already a
Broadway star and so I'd go in.
And now I went in for every bigjob that was coming and I
started not getting it and mybelief of I am invincible, I am
the actor everybody wants,except the ones that don't want
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me and that started to get intomy head.
And then I can tell you at somepoint I went into auditions,
concerned as opposed to what anyactor should do go into an
audition and say here's what Igot to offer.
You want it?
Great, you don't?
Oh well, someone will.
That's the only way to audition.
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That's the only way to use yourtalents, Because not everybody
is going to want to use you.
You might not be right for apart.
So this whole idea of belief, ifyou really can get your mind
around it, really wrap your mindaround it, you will be
limitless.
You will accomplish and achieveeverything, you will get to
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those stadiums.
But there can't be anything inyour mind that says I might not
fill a stadium, I might not beworthy of a stadium, I might be
too old, because you know TaylorSwift is what 12?
So yeah, so Ernest Holmes alsosaid this the universe is ready
to take form through the impulseof our creative belief.
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So this is the other thing Iwanted to tell you this morning
about your beliefs.
Your beliefs have energy.
Your belief is an energy, it'san energetic field.
Your belief has a radiantimpulse that surrounds it, an
energy, a vibration.
Every belief you have is basedon how much of that belief you
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embody, and that's the.
I love that he says there.
That is the impulse of ourcreative belief, and every time
you negate that belief, thatimpulse gets smaller and smaller
and smaller.
I told the story the other dayof Will and my no big deal story
and I know most of you knowthis story, but I'll do it very
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quickly.
I was getting ready for churchat the NoHo Arts Center and I
was beautifully dressed, readyto go, and I was making a
protein drink and Will was hewas like six maybe five sitting
on the counter next to theblender and Nora was sitting in
her chair at the kitchen tableand Kevin was out of town Well,
he was on Broadway doing a showand I'm putting everything in
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eggs, everything, eggs, proteinpowder, strawberries,
blueberries, kale, everything Iput in there and I turned away
for a reason and I turned backand as I turned back, Will
pushed the power thing.
Now, there was no lid on it andit just went.
I had egg dripping from my noseand I was just like and I was
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already running late, which isshocking because I'm so on time
and so I was standing there andwe had been teaching the
children no big deal, no matterwhat happened in life, it was no
big deal and we really wantedto get them to learn that that
don't make anything so big thatit does something to you, and so
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I'm speechless, which isshocking.
I was speechless and Will justwent, no big deal, and I
couldn't speak.
I just couldn't speak.
And then he went a little lessenthusiastically no big deal.
And I still couldn't speak.
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And then I saw the tears comedown his face and he went no big
deal, I know right.
And I was slayed.
I was like no, no big deal,You're absolutely right.
Inside I'm like I'm going tokill him.
But that's what we do, that'swhat our beliefs do.
We believe it, and then theworld does something and we
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believe it a little less.
And then the world doessomething and we believe it a
little less.
And then the world doessomething and we believe it a
little less.
Until we're walking around withthese half-beliefs and we're
believing this.
But we're also believing thiswhich, as you all know, is
called mixed messages, andthat's what we're giving the
universe mixed messages.
So the real question becomes arewe willing to do the work to
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really know what we're doing?
Because I would say most of ussitting here today and all of
you online, we don't really knowwhat we're doing.
We're really not fully surewhat we're telling the universe.
The only way we can know is tolook at our lives, because our
lives will tell us what we'retelling the universe.
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So look at your life and let ittell you what you're telling
the universe.
Are you happy, Are you healthy,Are you fulfilled, Are you
creative, Are you passionate?
Is what you're doing in lifereally making a difference for
you?
For you, not anybody else, butfor you.
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Ernest Holmes said and in thebook it is this bold in all caps
we are bound by nothing exceptbelief.
So we can sit here and listento an amazing singer, an amazing
songwriter, sing.
I declare health, I declarewealth, I declare all of it.
And we can feel that, likeGenevieve was feeling.
She can feel that in thatmoment.
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But what happens when we walkout the door?
Or what happens when we pick upour checkbook and realize, yeah
, I'm an amazing employedactress, but I don't have money?
I'm not saying you, but anybody, Unless it's you.
We can say so many things.
I want hot sex, but I haven'thad a date in five years.
I know that's not you either.
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But all of the above.
Health fitness I want fitness,I declare fitness, and I can sit
here right now, in front of allof you.
And health fitness, I wantfitness, I declare fitness, and
I can sit here right now, infront of all of you and scream
it with everybody else.
I declare fitness and then notgo to the gym, Not jog, not work
out.
No, no, that's not you.
But that's how this thing worksBecause, as Ernest Holmes says,
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there, we are bound by nothing,nothing, nothing but belief.
And Walt Disney said this whenyou believe in a thing, believe
in it all the way, implicitlyand unquestionably.
There's probably an ending tothis.
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When you believe in a thing,believe in it.
I'm like didn't that have anellipse?
When you believe in a thing,believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionably.
I don't know that, we all dothat.
I don't know that we believe init implicitly, unquestionably.
Has anybody seen the SaturdayNight Live movie yet?
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Saturday night, Kevin or not?
Yeah, I loved it.
I thought it was just amazingWatching how they portrayed
Lorne Michaels as someone whojust was not going to take no
for an answer, even though hehad his devils and his demons
questioning him and we all knowwhat happened.
And listening to the world sayyou'll be gone in two weeks.
Nobody wants to watch this,it's nothing.
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You don't even know what it isyet Right.
That, as all these lines thatcame through the movie and the
movie was, I found to beincredibly paced and designed
and directed and acted.
These actors were amazing.
But when it was over, when themovie was over, you know we all
have the ability to go and it'sstill on 40 years later, 50
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years later.
That's a mind like Walt Disneysaid.
As we look at Walt Disney andwhat he has created right,
Implicitly and unquestionablybelieved in, you cannot talk me
off of what I believe, period,cannot talk me off of what I
believe, period.
My daughter passed away and youcould not talk me off the truth
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that life is unfoldingperfectly.
No matter what, that I stand inimplicitly and unquestionably.
That's the kind of belief thatmoves mountains, that changes
things, and that's the kind ofbelief that moves mountains,
that changes things, and that'sthe kind of belief you need.
So, as I said to you, we went to, we went to New York and, um, I
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want to close with a littlelittle story.
We went to New York and Kevinand I are producing a number of
things.
The play that we went toproduce this week was very
successful and has an amazingfuture and it was fun to be
there and to meet all of thesehigh-level yes people that can
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say yes to your project and makeit happen.
And that's who was in the roomwith us for two performances.
But we also went to threeBroadway shows, three of the top
tickets in town to see.
But one producer, who I willnot name, came in and for an
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entire four or five minutes.
The whole conversation was abouthow theater is impossible to
produce today.
It costs too much, there aretoo many fingers in the pot.
It's impossible to raise thatmuch money.
You have to have way too manyproducers.
And, frankly and the final onewas and the audiences are fickle
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Even if you love something andit's brilliant, it's not going
to succeed, because that's whattheater is today.
And I had to walk away from theconversation and he even said,
he even turned, he goes look atyou, You're going to be doing a
$20 million musical.
How fast do you think that'sgoing to happen?
Yeah, so I'm hearing thisconversation and the other
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producers that were in thiscircle of conversation all big
Broadway producers were all likeyeah, it's gotten really
difficult, it's really hard.
So I walked away saying no,it's so easy for me to buy into
that.
It would be so easy to use thatas an excuse for what didn't
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happen or for what's not goingto happen.
A $20 million musical With Godare there really limits?
With God, is $20 million anydifferent than $20?
With God, is a hangnail andcancer different?
That's what I taught, that'swhat I believe.
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And so we went to see threeshows.
Yes, I did the work to get youthe programs.
So we saw one night we sawSunset Boulevard, the new one,
the most interesting version ofthis show you will ever see, I
think.
Although everything's unlimited, it was just spectacular.
And the woman who played thelead was unbelievable.
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The fact that there was anyscenery left when she was done
was shocking, and I don't meanthat in a bad way.
And then the next night we wentto see Gypsy with Audra McDonald
, and, by the way, all three ofthese tickets are almost
impossible to get.
Yet we had house seats forevery show.
And here I'll tell you a littlestory about Gypsy.
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We didn't get house seats forGypsy.
Somehow we missed them.
We were too late asking for thehouse seats.
I stayed calm because I've seenevery Mama Rose since Ethel
Merman on Broadway and I had tosee Audra MacDonald and this was
my shot.
But I was calm and we're inrehearsal on Wednesday.
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And I said to Kevin, you all goto lunch.
I'm going to go over to thetheater and buy tickets for
Gypsy.
It was Thursday, the day of thereadings, yeah, In between the
two presentations.
So I said I'm going to go gettickets for Gypsy, to which
someone to my right said you'renot going to get tickets, it's
completely sold out.
I went uh-huh.
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So I went to the box office andthere were two women, probably
from like New Jersey, in frontof me, and you know what I mean
by that.
I knew they were going to saythat.
And the woman says I hear her,and it's I'm next in line after
these two women.
And the woman says we just hadtwo house seats released and I
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can give them to you.
And I'm like don't buy them,don't buy them, don't buy them.
And the woman said how much?
And they said well, they're$249 a ticket.
She goes oh, no, no, no, wewant the mezzanine.
And I'm like and so they boughttickets to the mezzanine and I
walked up and I said I'll takethem.
And she said oh, you heard whatI said.
I said oh yeah, I'll take them,I'll take them and she goes
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great.
And so I paid for them and Ilooked at them and I was like,
oh my god, we are in the fifthrow center, she will do Rose's
turn.
She could spit on me from whereshe does Rose's turn.
And I can only tell you, atintermission of this show, Kevin
and I were speechless when shefinished singing Everything's
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Coming Up Roses.
Kevin and I turned to eachother.
I said to him I said she's amonster.
I've never seen Mama Rose as amonster.
I saw her as confused and, youknow, overwhelming, but not this
woman chewed into that role.
I have never seen a performancelike this in my life.
And then in Act 2, when she doesthe famous Rose's turn, where
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she's screaming out about her.
She could have been the star toGypsy, bigger than Gypsy Rose
Lee.
And she does this whole walkaround the ellipse.
She's literally as close as youare to me and she finishes that
song and 2,000 people.
And she finishes that song and2,000 people leap to their feet
and would not stop applauding.
And she never missed a beat.
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She just stood there and actedas though she was hearing 2,000
people applauding her and tearscoming down her eyes and I was
just a mess.
I was like never in my lifehave I seen a performance like
this.
But I couldn't get ticketsbecause it was sold out.
And then we had tickets to theshow I wanted to see.
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I wanted to see Audra the most,and the musical I wanted to see
was maybe happy ending, a brandnew musical starring Darren
Criss.
And it started and we'resitting there and we really
didn't know what to expect.
People were all saying, oh, itwas nice, we really liked it.
And it started and it was like,oh, this is really cool.
Well, let me just tell you, bythe end of the show, first of
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all, we were sobbing.
It was such a brilliant,brilliant and I wrote something
here.
I want to read it.
It was a brilliant evening oftheater because it was a mirror,
held up to the human race, ofwhat we have become.
Subtly, you don't even get ituntil, all of a sudden,
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something happens on stage.
I'm not going to tell you,because you all need to see this
.
Something happens on stage andyou are in one of those moments
like what am I seeing?
And it's just.
And that was Friday night andwe left Saturday morning.
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That musical talked about wipingyour memory clean, that it's
possible to wipe your memoryclean so that you'll be happier.
But this year for us, is allabout come alive in 1925.
In 2025, come alive.
Coming alive means not wipingyour memory clean.
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It means knowing what your lifehas been, embracing it all,
knowing it was all part of whereyou stand today, and then
getting so clear of who you arethat it all leads up to Rose's
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turn at the end of your life.
And turn at the end of yourlife and I say the end of your
life, it could be 40 when youdecide to move into the real
life of living what it reallymeans to live.
So I say to all those producersin that circle who say producing
theater is impossible thesedays, to take their life and go
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ahead and retire Because, guesswhat?
It's going to be impossible foryou because that's what you
believe, or you'll have mixedresults from it all.
But for me it is not onlypossible, it is probable,
because I know who I am and Iknow what this universe is all
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about.
It is about a happy ending foreveryone, the ability to live
life to the fullest, to befulfilled, to be, as the quote
Diane said, to know what makesyou come alive and the line
after it is and do it.
So my final remarks to all ofyou today is A do the work to
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see what makes you come alive,know what makes you come alive,
understand it.
Believe that whatever that isyou can do and then go do it.
Believe that whatever that isyou can do and then go do it.
Namaste.
So Karen's song starts with this Whatever I
think I am, I am.
Do you all know that?
Whatever you think you are, youare.
That's kind of how this works.
It's pretty simple.
Whatever I think I am, I am.
The problem is we think a lotof things about ourselves and we
wake up one day and we feellike we're amazing.
Then we wake up another day andwe feel like we're not Right.
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That's kind of how it works.
And it says whatever I think Iam, I am Amazing or not amazing,
and so, and then the song is Ideclare so I want everybody at
the top of your lungs, withouthurting your vocal cords, to
scream.
I declare on three Ready, One,two.
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Declare on three Ready One, two, three.
Margaret Owens, you did notopen your mouth One more time,
just for Margaret Owens.
Everyone.
Here we go, everybody.
One, two, three.
Okay, don't make me call youout like that.
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So I declare right, Y'all justsaid it.
How'd that feel?
Really, Did it feel good?
I'll make you do it again.
I declare Okay.
So now I want you to do this.
I want you to end that sentence.
I declare what?
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What are you declaring?
Like what?
Would you declare Genevieve?
I declare don't sit in the frontrow if you don't want to be
called on.
I'm stuck here.
I'm COD.
Oh, you're a COD.
Good, Well, here's some COD.
You ready?
What do you declare?
I declare I declare that I canhave anything I want.
Okay, too general.
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What do you want?
How about I declare an amazingacting career?
I declare an amazing actingcareer.
Yeah, but see, I believe that,Do you?
Yeah, Right now.
I do Right now.
Why?
Because I just remember who youare.
I declare.
So, Diane, what are you goingto declare?
(02:04):
I declare I declare I amhealthy.
Okay, who wants that?
So let's do it.
Ready, Everybody who wants that.
And I declare I am healthy.
Okay, great, Corrine, what doyou want?
I declare love.
Who wants love?
(02:24):
More love in their life?
Let's try that.
Ready.
I declare love.
Okay, great, Mindy, what do youwant?
I love that you're all sittinghere.
This is an interactive service,Just to be clear.
It's trying to get you to beinteractive with the universe.
So you're actually telling theuniverse what you want, Not just
(02:47):
oh, I would love.
You know I'll get right to you,Miss Margaret.
What do you want?
Say that I declare fitness.
What I declare fitnessEverybody.
I declare fitness.
Okay, good, Margaret, Wholeness.
What does that mean?
I declare fitness.
Okay, good, Margaret.
What does that mean?
(03:08):
It means all of those thingsspin out from me.
It knows what I want.
I am what I want and I want allof it.
How about I declare all of it.
You can say wholeness.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
You can say wholeness.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
Let's do that, Ready.
I declare wholeness, all of it.
(03:32):
All good, Okay, Karina, Ideclare hot sex.
Oh, that wakes you up.
That gets you to applaud andtotally agree.
(03:54):
Glenda, is that good for you?
Oh, Glenda's like I didn't hearher.
What did she say?
She said I'll repeat foreverybody online.
(04:15):
Karina, sitting there with her18-year-old daughter, I might
add said I declare hot sex andwe've lost the internet.
So how many people are goodwith that declaration?
Leslie, she raised her hand,Robbie it's Robbie's wife, just
letting you know.
Okay, so let's all say thistogether.
(04:36):
Pete, you good with that.
Okay, I wasn't expecting thistoday, but it's going to be a
good day for you, Okay, so shallwe everybody?
I declare hot sex.
I, like the, Peggy Lorbackraised her hands for that.
(05:00):
That's the most I've seen outof you in months.
That's great, Okay.
So let me tell you what adeclaration is.
I want to go in a wholedifferent direction now.
The declaration is a formal orexplicit statement or
announcement.
Okay, A formal or explicit?
(05:20):
That was explicit.
An explicit statement orannouncement.
So you're announcing to theworld what you declare and all
that is good.
All that is very good.
But the question then becomeswhat's behind the declaration?
So here's the title of my talktoday Behind the Words.
(05:40):
And, as you know, we are set upfor Eric Bork screening tonight
.
So because we have all theselights on the screen, it's going
to make it a little bit harderto read, but for those of you
over there, look that way,because that's a lot easier to
read.
Okay, so the title of my talktoday is Behind the Words.
So we use a lot of words in ourlives.
(06:02):
We say a lot of what we want.
We even get excited and are allon board with something with
our words.
But there's still somethinginside of us questioning it.
Or there's something inside ofus saying really, Do you really
mean that?
And you can act the shit.
You can act a lot.
You can act the I can't findanother word for that out of it.
(06:28):
I know right, you can act theshit out of it.
Great.
Good so, and we can, because wealso are acting in a way that
we don't realize we're acting,but we are.
So the real question becomeswhat's behind your words?
What's behind the words, what'sbehind the declaration you're
making?
Because you can say I want hotsex, I want fitness, I want
(06:51):
wholeness, I want all of it.
I want health, I want all thethings you said, I want a
vibrant, acting career.
You can say that all you want,but the universe does not answer
your words.
The universe is deaf.
The universe is deaf.
The universe doesn't hear words.
The universe hears action.
The universe hears the soul,the heart.
(07:13):
What do you mean?
What do you really?
And this is what the universereally operates on belief.
The universe doesn't need tohear that little plant there
telling the universe it's goingto turn into a tree, because it
only knows to turn into a tree.
(07:34):
Our problem is that we have thecapacity to make different
choices.
We can make a choice not to beour fullest, greatest self.
We can make a choice not to beour fullest greatest self.
We can make a choice to be ourlimited self.
We can make a choice to be weak, we can make a choice.
To be diseased, we can make anychoice we want.
That's the gift we've beengiven and that is the burden we
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have been given, Because it isdone unto you as you believe,
not as you declare and not asyou speak the words.
So this, I believe that thisteaching, this philosophy, one
of the reasons why it is not sobig and it isn't.
When you look at the worldreligions, we're not even on the
map, we don't even register.
(08:18):
It is so, so minuscule, so tiny.
The number of people that areinvolved in metaphysics or
quantum metaphysics Go toquantum metaphysics and you've
just sliced metaphysics downlike by a hundred percent.
So that's what's going on.
Why is that?
Because we actually get it thatuntil we change our minds, we
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are not going to change ourlives.
That's the way this works.
Until we really become clear onwhat we believe and then
wholeheartedly declare it, fromthe belief not a lot's going to
happen, or it may happen, andthen it falls apart.
(09:03):
So Ernest Holmes said this ourbelief sets the limit to our
demonstration of a principlewhich, of itself, is without
limit.
Now I've said this quote abillion times and this morning,
when I pulled it out of my verydusty Ernest Holmes book.
I was like, oh my God, this islike I feel like I've read this
for the first time, because I'mstruck by our belief sets the
(09:25):
limit.
I was like, oh my God, this islike I feel like I've read this
for the first time, Because I'mstruck by our belief sets the
limit.
Our beliefs are setting limitsto our life and then, when you
go to the bottom of it, we setthe limit of a principle which
in and of itself is limitless,without limit.
So your brain, your mind, yourcapacity to think and decide and
(09:49):
choose, to all of that, that iswhat is causing the limitations
in your life.
That and nothing else.
So it really behooves us tofind out what we believe,
because some of us are walkingaround declaring the hell out of
life or the heaven out of life,Declaring I declare this, I
(10:09):
declare this, I declare this.
And do you ever wonder why itdoesn't come true?
And then you know what we doThrough secondary causation, we
declare it, it doesn't happen.
And now we've bought into abelief that it doesn't happen,
that those things don't happen.
I remember the first time Ireally wanted a job as an actor
(10:31):
and I didn't get it.
And I was shocked because I'dgotten everything up to that
point.
When I moved to New York, I wasthe yes guy.
Every show I went for I got, Igot it, I got it, I got it.
And then all of a sudden thatwent all the way through.
For those of you who don't know, I did West Side Story all the
way through.
Yeah, that wasn't bad 40minutes all the way through West
(10:56):
Side Story.
And then, after West Side Story, I was kind of a target because
I was already a Broadway starand so I'd go in.
And now I went kind of a targetbecause I was already a
Broadway star and so I'd go in.
And now I went in for every bigjob that was coming and I
started not getting it and mybelief of I am invincible, I am
the actor everybody wants,except the ones that don't want
(11:16):
me and that started to get intomy head.
And then I can tell you at somepoint I went into auditions,
concerned as opposed to what anyactor should do go into an
audition and say here's what Igot to offer.
You want it?
Great, you don't?
Oh well, someone will.
That's the only way to audition.
(11:37):
That's the only way to use yourtalents, Because not everybody
is going to want to use you.
You might not be right for apart.
So this whole idea of belief, ifyou really can get your mind
around it, really wrap your mindaround it, you will be
limitless.
You will accomplish and achieveeverything, you will get to
(12:00):
those stadiums.
But there can't be anything inyour mind that says I might not
fill a stadium, I might not beworthy of a stadium, I might be
too old, because you know TaylorSwift is what 12?
So yeah, so Ernest Holmes alsosaid this the universe is ready
to take form through the impulseof our creative belief.
(12:23):
So this is the other thing Iwanted to tell you this morning
about your beliefs.
Your beliefs have energy.
Your belief is an energy, it'san energetic field.
Your belief has a radiantimpulse that surrounds it, an
energy, a vibration.
Every belief you have is basedon how much of that belief you
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embody, and that's the.
I love that he says there.
That is the impulse of ourcreative belief, and every time
you negate that belief, thatimpulse gets smaller and smaller
and smaller.
I told the story the other dayof Will and my no big deal story
and I know most of you knowthis story, but I'll do it very
(13:08):
quickly.
I was getting ready for churchat the NoHo Arts Center and I
was beautifully dressed, readyto go, and I was making a
protein drink and Will was hewas like six maybe five sitting
on the counter next to theblender and Nora was sitting in
her chair at the kitchen tableand Kevin was out of town Well,
he was on Broadway doing a showand I'm putting everything in
(13:31):
eggs, everything, eggs, proteinpowder, strawberries,
blueberries, kale, everything Iput in there and I turned away
for a reason and I turned backand as I turned back, Will
pushed the power thing.
Now, there was no lid on it andit just went.
I had egg dripping from my noseand I was just like and I was
(13:54):
already running late, which isshocking because I'm so on time
and so I was standing there andwe had been teaching the
children no big deal, no matterwhat happened in life, it was no
big deal and we really wantedto get them to learn that that
don't make anything so big thatit does something to you, and so
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I'm speechless, which isshocking.
I was speechless and Will justwent, no big deal, and I
couldn't speak.
I just couldn't speak.
And then he went a little lessenthusiastically no big deal.
And I still couldn't speak.
(14:36):
And then I saw the tears comedown his face and he went no big
deal, I know right.
And I was slayed.
I was like no, no big deal,You're absolutely right.
Inside I'm like I'm going tokill him.
But that's what we do, that'swhat our beliefs do.
We believe it, and then theworld does something and we
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believe it a little less.
And then the world doessomething and we believe it a
little less.
And then the world doessomething and we believe it a
little less.
Until we're walking around withthese half-beliefs and we're
believing this.
But we're also believing thiswhich, as you all know, is
called mixed messages, andthat's what we're giving the
universe mixed messages.
So the real question becomes arewe willing to do the work to
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really know what we're doing?
Because I would say most of ussitting here today and all of
you online, we don't really knowwhat we're doing.
We're really not fully surewhat we're telling the universe.
The only way we can know is tolook at our lives, because our
lives will tell us what we'retelling the universe.
(15:47):
So look at your life and let ittell you what you're telling
the universe.
Are you happy, Are you healthy,Are you fulfilled, Are you
creative, Are you passionate?
Is what you're doing in lifereally making a difference for
you?
For you, not anybody else, butfor you.
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Ernest Holmes said and in thebook it is this bold in all caps
we are bound by nothing exceptbelief.
So we can sit here and listento an amazing singer, an amazing
songwriter, sing.
I declare health, I declarewealth, I declare all of it.
And we can feel that, likeGenevieve was feeling.
She can feel that in thatmoment.
(16:35):
But what happens when we walkout the door?
Or what happens when we pick upour checkbook and realize, yeah
, I'm an amazing employedactress, but I don't have money?
I'm not saying you, but anybody, Unless it's you.
We can say so many things.
I want hot sex, but I haven'thad a date in five years.
I know that's not you either.
(16:56):
But all of the above.
Health fitness I want fitness,I declare fitness, and I can sit
here right now, in front of allof you.
And health fitness, I wantfitness, I declare fitness, and
I can sit here right now, infront of all of you and scream
it with everybody else.
I declare fitness and then notgo to the gym, Not jog, not work
out.
No, no, that's not you.
But that's how this thing worksBecause, as Ernest Holmes says,
(17:19):
there, we are bound by nothing,nothing, nothing but belief.
And Walt Disney said this whenyou believe in a thing, believe
in it all the way, implicitlyand unquestionably.
There's probably an ending tothis.
(17:40):
When you believe in a thing,believe in it.
I'm like didn't that have anellipse?
When you believe in a thing,believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionably.
I don't know that, we all dothat.
I don't know that we believe init implicitly, unquestionably.
Has anybody seen the SaturdayNight Live movie yet?
(18:00):
Saturday night, Kevin or not?
Yeah, I loved it.
I thought it was just amazingWatching how they portrayed
Lorne Michaels as someone whojust was not going to take no
for an answer, even though hehad his devils and his demons
questioning him and we all knowwhat happened.
And listening to the world sayyou'll be gone in two weeks.
Nobody wants to watch this,it's nothing.
(18:23):
You don't even know what it isyet Right.
That, as all these lines thatcame through the movie and the
movie was, I found to beincredibly paced and designed
and directed and acted.
These actors were amazing.
But when it was over, when themovie was over, you know we all
have the ability to go and it'sstill on 40 years later, 50
(18:45):
years later.
That's a mind like Walt Disneysaid.
As we look at Walt Disney andwhat he has created right,
Implicitly and unquestionablybelieved in, you cannot talk me
off of what I believe, period,cannot talk me off of what I
believe, period.
My daughter passed away and youcould not talk me off the truth
(19:09):
that life is unfoldingperfectly.
No matter what, that I stand inimplicitly and unquestionably.
That's the kind of belief thatmoves mountains, that changes
things, and that's the kind ofbelief that moves mountains,
that changes things, and that'sthe kind of belief you need.
So, as I said to you, we went to, we went to New York and, um, I
(19:31):
want to close with a littlelittle story.
We went to New York and Kevinand I are producing a number of
things.
The play that we went toproduce this week was very
successful and has an amazingfuture and it was fun to be
there and to meet all of thesehigh-level yes people that can
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say yes to your project and makeit happen.
And that's who was in the roomwith us for two performances.
But we also went to threeBroadway shows, three of the top
tickets in town to see.
But one producer, who I willnot name, came in and for an
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entire four or five minutes.
The whole conversation was abouthow theater is impossible to
produce today.
It costs too much, there aretoo many fingers in the pot.
It's impossible to raise thatmuch money.
You have to have way too manyproducers.
And, frankly and the final onewas and the audiences are fickle
(20:37):
Even if you love something andit's brilliant, it's not going
to succeed, because that's whattheater is today.
And I had to walk away from theconversation and he even said,
he even turned, he goes look atyou, You're going to be doing a
$20 million musical.
How fast do you think that'sgoing to happen?
Yeah, so I'm hearing thisconversation and the other
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producers that were in thiscircle of conversation all big
Broadway producers were all likeyeah, it's gotten really
difficult, it's really hard.
So I walked away saying no,it's so easy for me to buy into
that.
It would be so easy to use thatas an excuse for what didn't
(21:23):
happen or for what's not goingto happen.
A $20 million musical With Godare there really limits?
With God, is $20 million anydifferent than $20?
With God, is a hangnail andcancer different?
That's what I taught, that'swhat I believe.
(21:45):
And so we went to see threeshows.
Yes, I did the work to get youthe programs.
So we saw one night we sawSunset Boulevard, the new one,
the most interesting version ofthis show you will ever see, I
think.
Although everything's unlimited, it was just spectacular.
And the woman who played thelead was unbelievable.
(22:08):
The fact that there was anyscenery left when she was done
was shocking, and I don't meanthat in a bad way.
And then the next night we wentto see Gypsy with Audra McDonald
, and, by the way, all three ofthese tickets are almost
impossible to get.
Yet we had house seats forevery show.
And here I'll tell you a littlestory about Gypsy.
(22:29):
We didn't get house seats forGypsy.
Somehow we missed them.
We were too late asking for thehouse seats.
I stayed calm because I've seenevery Mama Rose since Ethel
Merman on Broadway and I had tosee Audra MacDonald and this was
my shot.
But I was calm and we're inrehearsal on Wednesday.
(22:51):
And I said to Kevin, you all goto lunch.
I'm going to go over to thetheater and buy tickets for
Gypsy.
It was Thursday, the day of thereadings, yeah, In between the
two presentations.
So I said I'm going to go gettickets for Gypsy, to which
someone to my right said you'renot going to get tickets, it's
completely sold out.
I went uh-huh.
(23:12):
So I went to the box office andthere were two women, probably
from like New Jersey, in frontof me, and you know what I mean
by that.
I knew they were going to saythat.
And the woman says I hear her,and it's I'm next in line after
these two women.
And the woman says we just hadtwo house seats released and I
(23:35):
can give them to you.
And I'm like don't buy them,don't buy them, don't buy them.
And the woman said how much?
And they said well, they're$249 a ticket.
She goes oh, no, no, no, wewant the mezzanine.
And I'm like and so they boughttickets to the mezzanine and I
walked up and I said I'll takethem.
And she said oh, you heard whatI said.
I said oh yeah, I'll take them,I'll take them and she goes
(23:56):
great.
And so I paid for them and Ilooked at them and I was like,
oh my god, we are in the fifthrow center, she will do Rose's
turn.
She could spit on me from whereshe does Rose's turn.
And I can only tell you, atintermission of this show, Kevin
and I were speechless when shefinished singing Everything's
(24:18):
Coming Up Roses.
Kevin and I turned to eachother.
I said to him I said she's amonster.
I've never seen Mama Rose as amonster.
I saw her as confused and, youknow, overwhelming, but not this
woman chewed into that role.
I have never seen a performancelike this in my life.
And then in Act 2, when she doesthe famous Rose's turn, where
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she's screaming out about her.
She could have been the star toGypsy, bigger than Gypsy Rose
Lee.
And she does this whole walkaround the ellipse.
She's literally as close as youare to me and she finishes that
song and 2,000 people.
And she finishes that song and2,000 people leap to their feet
and would not stop applauding.
And she never missed a beat.
(25:01):
She just stood there and actedas though she was hearing 2,000
people applauding her and tearscoming down her eyes and I was
just a mess.
I was like never in my lifehave I seen a performance like
this.
But I couldn't get ticketsbecause it was sold out.
And then we had tickets to theshow I wanted to see.
(25:26):
I wanted to see Audra the most,and the musical I wanted to see
was maybe happy ending, a brandnew musical starring Darren
Criss.
And it started and we'resitting there and we really
didn't know what to expect.
People were all saying, oh, itwas nice, we really liked it.
And it started and it was like,oh, this is really cool.
Well, let me just tell you, bythe end of the show, first of
(25:48):
all, we were sobbing.
It was such a brilliant,brilliant and I wrote something
here.
I want to read it.
It was a brilliant evening oftheater because it was a mirror,
held up to the human race, ofwhat we have become.
Subtly, you don't even get ituntil, all of a sudden,
(26:08):
something happens on stage.
I'm not going to tell you,because you all need to see this
.
Something happens on stage andyou are in one of those moments
like what am I seeing?
And it's just.
And that was Friday night andwe left Saturday morning.
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That musical talked about wipingyour memory clean, that it's
possible to wipe your memoryclean so that you'll be happier.
But this year for us, is allabout come alive in 1925.
In 2025, come alive.
Coming alive means not wipingyour memory clean.
(26:53):
It means knowing what your lifehas been, embracing it all,
knowing it was all part of whereyou stand today, and then
getting so clear of who you arethat it all leads up to Rose's
(27:14):
turn at the end of your life.
And turn at the end of yourlife and I say the end of your
life, it could be 40 when youdecide to move into the real
life of living what it reallymeans to live.
So I say to all those producersin that circle who say producing
theater is impossible thesedays, to take their life and go
(27:37):
ahead and retire Because, guesswhat?
It's going to be impossible foryou because that's what you
believe, or you'll have mixedresults from it all.
But for me it is not onlypossible, it is probable,
because I know who I am and Iknow what this universe is all
(28:01):
about.
It is about a happy ending foreveryone, the ability to live
life to the fullest, to befulfilled, to be, as the quote
Diane said, to know what makesyou come alive and the line
after it is and do it.
So my final remarks to all ofyou today is A do the work to
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see what makes you come alive,know what makes you come alive,
understand it.
Believe that whatever that isyou can do and then go do it.
Believe that whatever that isyou can do and then go do it.
Namaste.
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