April 8, 2025 • 29 mins
The momentum of the quantum field is constantly evolving, expanding, creating—and that energy is who you truly are at your core.
• Saying "never" closes off the infinite universal field of pure potentiality
• The theory of uncertainty invites us to allow the universe to surprise us
• What seems like disappointment often clears the way for better opportunities
• In the nanosecond before your next thought, you exist in pure potential
• Our habitual thought patterns derail us from accessing our full potential
• The thoughts you select chart your path, but the thoughts you engage create your reality
• Like a banana seeing only spots in the mirror, we focus on perceived flaws instead of our perfection
• Understanding, knowing, using, and guiding the quantum momentum transforms your experience
• Challenge yourself to identify what you've classified as "never" possible in your life
• The universe has magnificent surprises waiting when you open yourself to uncertainty
This month, let's remove "never" from our vocabulary and get back into the momentum of allowing the quantum field to move through us. See what happens when you get out of your own way.
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
Never say never.
And Dr Laurie made that slidefor me because when I look at
that I say to myself that'snever happening, right?
Anybody else?
Time I say that's never goingto happen, I have just closed
off an abundant, infinite,universal field of pure
potential that's willing to sayyes whenever I'm equal to the
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yes.
Why would I say never?
Why would I say no?
So in quantum metaphysics, oneof the great theories is the
theory of uncertainty.
How many people here need toknow how everything's going to
turn out in their life?
I love that their hands arecoming up slowly.
Yeah, yeah, many people, mostpeople feel more comfortable
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when they know what's going tohappen.
And yet in the quantum fieldit's.
The theory of uncertainty isall about being willing to allow
the universe to surprise you,being willing once photons and
neutrons hit each other andbounce off each other in
entanglement all of this isgoing on that somewhere
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something different may happenthan what you have decided is
going to happen, and to be opento that.
How does that sound?
Doesn't that sound exciting?
To live your life from thatpoint of view?
You cannot never bedisappointed because you're
going to trust and know thatsomething is unfolding perfectly
for you that you may not haveknown.
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I always talk about when Kevinwho right now is auditioning for
a play, which is why he's nothere.
But Kevin went to Vegas one oftwo actors flown to Vegas to
star in this huge show and hewas so certain he had it because
he was going to replace TommyToon and the other guy was much
shorter than him so he figuredwell, at least I'm taller he
thought he was going to get it.
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He didn't get it and he wasreally devastated.
But I I in my head was like itwas such a bad show and it was
an into Vegas show and you, youhave aspirations to be on
Broadway.
Vegas is not Broadway.
And blah, blah, blah.
And so I'm telling him all thisand he doesn't want to hear any
of it.
One week later he gets a phonecall Can you drive to San Diego
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and audition for my God Say itagain, no, yes, but the director
, julie Taymor.
Can you go to San Diego andaudition for Julie Taymor?
They're doing Lion King forBroadway and she needs someone
to stand by for the lead forScar.
He went, drove up to San Diegoand they hired him on the spot,
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changed his life completely.
He was in Lion King for a yearin New York.
Then they took him out of LionKing, put him in Annie Get your
Gun, where he got to staropposite Bernadette Peters and
sing love songs with her onstage.
No jealousy here.
I was just jealous that Ididn't get to do it.
All of that because theuniverse, in its great
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uncertainty, knew not this, this.
We get stuck on this, and nowwe roll down this road of
sadness, depression, what did Ido?
Wrong?
All the things, rather thanjust saying, oh, not mine,
what's mine?
Right?
That's uncertainty and that'sthe quality.
(03:33):
So I have a little video.
Is that video lined up for thenext one, saman?
I'm sorry, thor, I have a slide.
No, you should have the video.
I sent it to you guys thismorning.
Okay, check your email.
Just go look for the email.
I'll punt until you find it.
(03:54):
Yeah, I sent it like seveno'clock this morning, okay.
Okay, I'm going to have to tellyou what this video was all
about, but maybe they'll find itquickly.
All right, forget it.
So it's this really great videothat you're not going to see,
but I did send it to you guys.
It's not a five-minute video,it's like a minute, a minute and
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30 seconds.
It basically is a video thatproves velocity plus where am I
here?
Mass times, velocity equalsmomentum, which I think is the
next slide.
No, so momentum, the quantumfield of pure potential.
So Doug took us on this journey, started the journey and this
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is where we're going with it.
The momentum that we mostlythink about is the momentum that
takes us somewhere in therelative world, the momentum,
and you even said, of ourcareers, the momentum of success
.
When I asked people yesterdaybecause we do a very
experiential service in PalmSprings I said where would you
say you were, if your life, ifthere's a momentum to your life,
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what number would you give it?
From one to 10?
And people were like seven,eight, 10 person said 180.
Um, and my point was you allgave me that number based on
success or based on what you'redoing in the world, right?
They all agreed.
Everybody was like yeah, that'swhat I mean, the momentum, what
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I'm making happen, the momentum.
Except that momentum, as I wantto talk about it today, is the
quantum field of purepotentiality.
So everybody knows what thequantum field is.
It's when you go so deep, so tothe smallest particle and then
beyond it, you start to see whatmakes all of this happen.
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You can call it God, the Godparticle, you can call it that
what is behind.
Emerson called it the over soul, that which is over everything
but not really over, kind ofunder and within and around.
And it is so.
This thing called the quantumfield is the energy that you are
, it's within you, it's behindevery cell in your body, it's
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behind everything that you do inlife.
So this little video was allabout.
It was a cute little videowhere it showed how big boulders
can come down a hill with aperson running away from it,
because that has a lot ofmomentum and perhaps the person
did it.
There's another part in thevideo where it has the apple.
There's another part in thevideo where it has the apple, an
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apple on a stand and it shows abullet shooting through the
apple and even though the bulletis small, the velocity is huge
and it shatters the apple.
Then it shows a cat Was it acat?
Some animal diving at the appleand the apple moves but it
doesn't break or anythingbecause even though that's
bigger than the bullet, itdoesn't have the same velocity.
So it's all about that.
(06:50):
But my question to you thismorning is, if we're going to
talk about mass and velocity,the bigness of it and the speed
of it, my question to you isthis how big are your thoughts
of it?
My question to you is this howbig are your thoughts, how big
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are your dreams?
How big are your desires?
How big, how massive is thelife you see for yourself, and
how fast is your mind working?
Are you open enough to let thisquantum field, this field of
energy that's pushing throughyou at all times?
Are you free enough, openenough to let it move through
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you at such a fast speed thatyour life is like Doug's skis,
that you are on it and it'staking you?
So those are the two questionsI want you to think about today
how big are your thoughts andhow fast does the universe move
through you?
Okay, so we talked about thisbook this morning.
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So mass times, velocity equalsmomentum.
So the possibility principle byMel Schwartz.
I highly recommend it foranybody who wants to read about
quantum and how it affects yourlife and how to live from it.
It's a terrific little book.
So I have a few quotes fromthis book that I want to go over
In the nanosecond before yournext thought, you are in a state
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of pure potential.
Now, just think about that for asecond.
In the nanosecond before yournext thought, you are in a state
of pure potential.
How often do you think you arein a state of pure potential and
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you're going to think?
Well, a lot, because I'm alwaysin a state of pure potential
before my next thought.
But not so much because many ofus think constantly and
constantly regurgitate the samethoughts over and over and over
again.
So we're on this loop.
So, even though, in thenanosecond before your next
thought, you're in a state ofpure potential, we tend to be
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derailing that pure potentialityin our minds.
What would stop that?
Well, meditation, whatever youuse to slow down your mind, to
stop the thinking machine and toget in flow with what's coming
up, what wants to come up.
The uncertainty principle oflife, bringing you wherever it's
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leading you.
And that's what you're soexcited about, because that's
kind of how you're now livingyour life, from that place of
what is next.
Do you want me to get out ofthe way so you can take a
picture of that?
I love when I see the audiencegoing.
Could you move aside?
Wow, tough room.
Okay, right, yes, I'll stayover here so that you can get
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the rest of these, because allthe rest of the slides are
coming up now.
So here's the next one.
The thought you select willchart your path.
Why do you think you select thethoughts that you select?
Why do you think the thoughtsthat run through your mind are
selective to you?
Why do you think you havecertain thoughts and other
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people don't have certainthoughts?
If there's anything our worldis teaching us right now is that
we are in a world that is verydiametrically opposed to one
another, to different ideas,that there's so many different
thoughts going on all over theplace.
Why is that?
Why?
What'd you say?
Beliefs, yes, beliefs, butunderneath Momentum, momentos,
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yes, but underneath all of thatis a relatively perfect field of
pure potentiality.
That is everybody.
What happens is it rises up andsome people shut it down.
Some people shut it off becausethey're too busy thinking of
the next thought and the nextthing, as opposed to being open
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to what wants to come through.
So the thought you select willchart your path.
So let's just say this amazingidea is coming through you, this
energy that is likeoverwhelming you, and you stop
and think of something elseinstead.
You don't allow it.
You just think what you've beenthinking for years and years
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and years, oh, that's not goingto work for me.
Do you ever have one of thosemoments where something comes to
you and it's like going to workfor me?
Do you ever have one of thosemoments where something comes to
you and it's like, but it seemshuge, and you're like, oh, I
could never do that.
I could never do that.
Today and this month, as we movethrough the month of momentum,
I'm here to ask all of us tokind of spend the month never,
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saying never, to really open upto the pure potentiality of the
universe, to open up to thingsthat maybe you have never
contemplated before.
So the thought we engage willsummon the reality of our next
moment.
Why is this different from thisone?
The thought you select willchart your path, but the thought
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you engage will summon thereality of your next moment.
Engaging something means youare all in.
You're engaging it.
You have decided to embody it.
How many things do you thinkyou have embodied in your
lifetime?
How many things right now doyou think you are embodying?
Beliefs, thoughts, trends,already established premises,
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our AEPs how many things do youthink are going on inside of you
that you have already engagedand engaged it to create in your
life?
It's something to think about'tit?
Because the truth is, beforethe engagement came the
courtship.
Before the courtship came thisfield, where everything was
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possible.
So I'm suggesting we find thatplace again, that place where
everything is possible, and payattention to what our next
thought is and then payattention to how we engage that
thought.
Many of us right now are in themiddle of a very full engagement
and when that happens, it'svery difficult for the momentum
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of the universe to find you.
It's there, but you have to getout of the way.
So the potential is all thatexists prior to the next thought
.
So I'm going to check in rightnow on you and ask you you don't
have to answer this, but do youbelieve all this?
Okay, I just said you didn'thave to answer, but good for you
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, anthony, I do too, but youneed to know if you do or not,
because the truth is, if youdon't, or if you think it's cute
or if you think it's justinteresting, it's not going to
benefit you as much, becausefirst you have to understand who
you are.
You have to remember who youare.
That's really what this isabout.
When you remember you are thequantum momentum, constantly
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evolving, constantly growing,constantly expanding, constantly
creating.
When you realize that's who youare, it's a different, it's a
book, it's a game changer.
You live life differently.
I guarantee you, when you reallyget this, you will not be able
to just think these thoughtsthat you know are derailing you.
How many thoughts do you thinkduring the day go against what
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you say you want?
And I know you could probablybe sitting there also thinking
well, this sounds exhausting, soI have to think about
everything I'm thinking.
But it's not really that.
It's more about being awake.
It's not trying to stop thethoughts, it's about being awake
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to them, paying attention tothem.
Our struggle with change iscaused by our habituation to old
thoughts.
And I use the old woman withthe apple from Snow White
because I think Snow White'sgetting a bum rap.
So I use the old woman with theapple from Snow White because I
think Snow White's getting abum rap.
So I thought I'd do that.
And because here's the thing Ithink of my thoughts, some of my
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thoughts, as that witch in SnowWhite saying here you go, try
this.
All those thoughts that arestill telling me you're unworthy
, you're getting old, yourbody's going to get worse, all
those things that we have beentold over the years, all the
things that we've bought into,are just like that apple.
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We take a bite out of itconstantly and we're poisoning
ourselves with our thoughts.
We're poisoning ourselves withour beliefs, and those beliefs
are what is causing our life,our life, to unfold the way it
does.
This is one of my favoritepictures I've ever found.
Are you the banana outside themirror or are you the banana
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inside the mirror Right?
Are you a good rich or you abad witch?
So if you can learn to see thethought, you don't have to
become the thought.
How many bananas do I have herethat look in the mirror and see
something else?
I mean, look at that banana.
It is a perfect, organic.
I know this, I checked.
It's an organic banana,perfectly shaped.
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It's perfect in every way,nutritious.
It's an organic banana,perfectly shaped.
It's perfect in every way,nutritious.
It's amazing.
But that's what it sees, and Iknow this is funny.
But you're this banana.
We are all this banana.
How many dark spots are weseeing when we look in the
mirror?
And age is a big thing.
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Age is a big issue in thiscountry, in the world, but there
are some cultures that don'tlook at age the way we look at
age.
I mean.
The truth is can you live to110, 120, fully healthy, your
body in great shape, your mindclear and everything perfect in
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your life?
Could you?
The answer is yes, we reallycan.
We have everything necessaryfor that to be true.
The only thing that stops us isthat banana Is you.
That's the only thing thatstops us.
We buy into all of these things.
And you know, for somebody whojust turned 70, I'm really
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paying attention to when I geton that train of I'm getting old
.
Or you know, for somebody whojust turned 70, I'm really
paying attention to when I geton that train of I'm getting old
.
Or you know how many peoplewake up in the morning and
they're just a little bit soreor they're just a little bit
tired when they wake up.
Two hands, really.
That was good, ok, so I did.
Recently I woke up and I pickedup the dog and I popped a muscle
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and my back was out.
But I didn't have time for myback to be out and I also
realized that my back was incharge.
My mind was in charge of myback.
So I did go to the chiropractor, because we do believe in the
pill and the prayer.
I went to the chiropractor.
He did it.
He said you should come backevery other day for the rest of
the week.
I said I won't be here.
This is it, this is the shotyou get and this is done.
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This is done today.
He said no, it's going to takea while, and don't pick anything
up, don't go to the gym.
And I was like that's nothappening either.
So so I just said, okay, I'mdone, but but the pain.
So bring up the pain.
For this reason, pain anddisease and issues that come on
in your life it's difficultbecause they have such energy,
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don't they?
Especially pain.
It keeps hitting you, sayingpay attention to me, pay
attention to me, and what are wetalking about here?
Where your thoughts go, theregoes your life.
So when you're getting allthese pains and issues going on
in your life, our engagement ofthem is what's causing the
problem.
Can we just not know the truthright away?
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Can't we just know the truth?
Okay, you picked up the dog,you popped your back.
Your back is fine.
It'll be great.
And that was it.
And so, by the end of the day,I kept fighting my mind going
yep, that hurts.
Nope, it's good, it's all.
It's unfolding perfectly.
I did what I needed to do by theend of the thinking about my
back, and Kevin said to me how'syour back?
I went oh, it's good, that wasit.
That was my back.
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That was that one day.
Same thing when I got, when Iwas diagnosed with stage four
cancer and it was basically 20%you have a 20% chance to make it
to August I was like that's notgoing to happen.
And I knew it.
I absolutely knew it.
I knew I was not going to die.
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I did, but as my, as my doctorsaid to me.
She said you should have knownthat you weren't going to get
nauseous, because if you're thatgood with your mind, maybe you
should have worked on allaspects instead of just that you
weren't going to lose your hair.
Because I did not lose my hair.
My hair was just very importantto me.
I was like you know what?
I will suffer every indignity,I will not go bald.
And the doctors were like youwill go bald and you should
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shave your head now, cause myhair was down to here at the
time.
You should shave your head now,because when it falls out it
scares people.
I said it's not falling outevery week.
I'd come in for chemo everyother day or whatever it was.
And she'd be like, wow, youstill kept your hair.
I was like it's not goinganywhere.
I never I lost a little bit ofhair back here.
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That was it Totally.
But then it grew in black and Ithought I should have gone bald
.
I would not have gray hair, myhair would be just black.
Why am I telling you this?
So your thoughts, what you aredoing with your mind, is what's
creating the life you're living.
So the banana slide is myfavorite.
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So the quantum view of theuniverse tells us that reality
unfolds perpetually from a stateof potential.
Right now, in this moment, yourlife is unfolding from a state
of pure potentiality.
It just depends on what everysingle one of you, what thoughts
coming next After that?
I am pure potentiality, Nowwhat?
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But I'm also this age and Ihave this much money and blah,
blah and we do all of that.
So right now you're in thisfull state of potentiality and
the question is what are yougoing to do with it, what
thought is coming next?
Momentum is nothing more thanpotential unfolding.
The momentum I'm talking about,which is not mass times,
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velocity equals momentum.
It is the quantum field, isfully alive, fully moving, fully
bringing you into its life ofunlimited potential.
That's the momentum I'm talkingabout and that's the momentum
that we need to tap into thismonth.
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Every day, when you wake up,before you start thinking about
what your day is going to be orwhat your body is doing or
anything, before you think ofanything, think momentum.
Give yourself permission to dothat.
So here are a few little steps.
First of all, understandeverything I said today.
Lori's like really Giveyourself permission to
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understand what I have spoken oftoday.
What momentum is who you are,what that energy is inside of
you, what you have thecapability of, what is possible
for you.
Understand that right.
Secondly, know it, which reallyis, believe it, embody it,
engage that the truth of who youare right.
So understand it first, know itreally, embody it.
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The third one is use it,because this is for you to use.
I don't speak on Sundays becauseit's well, it is fun, I love
doing this, but I don't just.
What I want to do is use thisteaching?
If I can't use it, why are wetalking about it?
If it's not going to benefit mylife in some way, why am I
talking about it?
So understand it, know it, thenuse it and then, the most
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important part, guide it.
How does?
Why do I say guide it?
Because once I understand it,once I actually embody it and
once I start using it, I have tokeep guiding it.
I can't let something else comein and derail me.
I can't let all of thosethoughts, those habitual
thoughts, take everything that Iknow and throw it out the
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window while I create adifferent life that I don't want
.
So understand it, know it, useit and guide it.
So, in conclusion, the reasonwhy Never Say Never, worked for
me was there are things in mylife that I've said never to, or
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there are things in my liferight now that I came I don't
want to put this came to termswith when I was looking at some
things that I would like to doin my life and I heard in my
head that's never going tohappen for you again.
I was like, wow, why?
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And then I had a dream.
I had.
And then I had a dream.
I had a dream.
I had a dream, a dream aboutyou.
No, go there.
I had a dream, and not to getthrough a whole talk without
saying West Side Story, but hereit goes.
I had a dream and I was on stageat the Minskoff Theater, in the
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wings, and I'm standing thereand the stage manager is saying
to me, asking me how I'm feelingand all I'm like, I'm good, I'm
good.
He said do you remembereverything?
I was like, yeah, yeah, but Idon't know that I should do this
.
And the orchestra starts thatand in my sleep I feel the
goosebumps and I'm like why didI think I should go play riff at
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70?
This is going to be reallydifficult.
And I went through this wholething and then the thing started
and they're like you need to beon stage.
And I got on stage and I tookmy position, you know, and it
started and I started snappingmy finger and just as I had to
start the sailing step, I wokeup.
I was so grateful that I wokeup, but I woke up to that
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because I had gone to bedthinking I would love to do that
again.
I would love that moment againwhere I'm standing on a Broadway
stage, center stage with thespotlights all on me starting
the show.
I just I would love to do thatagain.
And I heard myself say thatthat that is never going to
happen again that way.
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I was like wow, really, becauseyou just made that happen.
You just made that never areality.
So I'm here to tell you I'm notdoing West Side Story again.
But something happened.
I get an email the very next dayfrom the artistic director of
the Fountain Theater and you'rejust going to laugh when you see
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how momentum works and hewrites me this email and he says
there is a play written by annot Armenian Saudi writer that
is being done all around theUnited States.
It's on Broadway.
Nathan Lane's going to do it.
A bunch of actors are going todo it all over the United States
.
He said and we would like youto be one of the actors that
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does this play.
Now, I have not acted on a stagethat way in years and I haven't
really been pursuing it,although I did mention to a
casting director.
I'm available If a part comesup that I'd be right for, let me
know.
So you know that let me knowthing.
And so he explains the projectto me and it's about.
It's a one person show.
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You don't get the script tillan hour before the show.
It's totally sold out.
I mean, it's a sellout event.
It's at the Fountain Theater.
You will get the script an hourbefore but you can't open it.
You come out on stage, weintroduce you and then you open
the script and it's a 90-minuteone-person play and you go
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without knowing anything.
First of all, that's theactor's nightmare to be on stage
unrehearsed.
And secondly, I'd already hadthe nightmare.
And secondly, it's one personcenter stage with all lights on
him, ready to do a show.
And I was back at the car whenit came in and I just turned to
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Kevin and I showed him the emailand he just said are you going
to do it?
And I said yes.
So I said yes to it.
I will let you all know whatthat date is.
I'm just hoping it's notsomething.
No, it's going to be great.
I mean, nathan Lane's doing it,audrey McDonald's doing it, a
lot of stars are doing it, andthen some of us actors that were
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Broadway stars get to do it aswell.
So our Broadway stars get to doit as well.
So are Broadway stars?
Well, I was a Broadway star andI will be a Broadway star.
I will always be a Broadwaystar in my own mind.
So never say never.
You need to find out.
What are your nevers?
What have you put in thatcolumn of never?
This is never going to happen.
I'm never going to do this.
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This is never going to work forme.
I'm never going to happen.
I'm never going to do this.
This is never going to work forme.
I'm never going to do thisagain.
I'm never going to feel thisway again.
Whatever that is, this is ourmonth to let that go, to get it
off the table and to get backinto that momentum of allowing
the quantum field, that purepotentiality that you are, to
move through and as you, andthen let's see what happens to
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all of us, namaste.
Never say never.
And Dr Laurie made that slidefor me because when I look at
that I say to myself that'snever happening, right?
Anybody else?
Time I say that's never goingto happen, I have just closed
off an abundant, infinite,universal field of pure
potential that's willing to sayyes whenever I'm equal to the
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yes.
Why would I say never?
Why would I say no?
So in quantum metaphysics, oneof the great theories is the
theory of uncertainty.
How many people here need toknow how everything's going to
turn out in their life?
I love that their hands arecoming up slowly.
Yeah, yeah, many people, mostpeople feel more comfortable
(00:57):
when they know what's going tohappen.
And yet in the quantum fieldit's.
The theory of uncertainty isall about being willing to allow
the universe to surprise you,being willing once photons and
neutrons hit each other andbounce off each other in
entanglement all of this isgoing on that somewhere
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something different may happenthan what you have decided is
going to happen, and to be opento that.
How does that sound?
Doesn't that sound exciting?
To live your life from thatpoint of view?
You cannot never bedisappointed because you're
going to trust and know thatsomething is unfolding perfectly
for you that you may not haveknown.
(01:38):
I always talk about when Kevinwho right now is auditioning for
a play, which is why he's nothere.
But Kevin went to Vegas one oftwo actors flown to Vegas to
star in this huge show and hewas so certain he had it because
he was going to replace TommyToon and the other guy was much
shorter than him so he figuredwell, at least I'm taller he
thought he was going to get it.
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He didn't get it and he wasreally devastated.
But I I in my head was like itwas such a bad show and it was
an into Vegas show and you, youhave aspirations to be on
Broadway.
Vegas is not Broadway.
And blah, blah, blah.
And so I'm telling him all thisand he doesn't want to hear any
of it.
One week later he gets a phonecall Can you drive to San Diego
(02:24):
and audition for my God Say itagain, no, yes, but the director
, julie Taymor.
Can you go to San Diego andaudition for Julie Taymor?
They're doing Lion King forBroadway and she needs someone
to stand by for the lead forScar.
He went, drove up to San Diegoand they hired him on the spot,
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changed his life completely.
He was in Lion King for a yearin New York.
Then they took him out of LionKing, put him in Annie Get your
Gun, where he got to staropposite Bernadette Peters and
sing love songs with her onstage.
No jealousy here.
I was just jealous that Ididn't get to do it.
All of that because theuniverse, in its great
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uncertainty, knew not this, this.
We get stuck on this, and nowwe roll down this road of
sadness, depression, what did Ido?
Wrong?
All the things, rather thanjust saying, oh, not mine,
what's mine?
Right?
That's uncertainty and that'sthe quality.
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So I have a little video.
Is that video lined up for thenext one, saman?
I'm sorry, thor, I have a slide.
No, you should have the video.
I sent it to you guys thismorning.
Okay, check your email.
Just go look for the email.
I'll punt until you find it.
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Yeah, I sent it like seveno'clock this morning, okay.
Okay, I'm going to have to tellyou what this video was all
about, but maybe they'll find itquickly.
All right, forget it.
So it's this really great videothat you're not going to see,
but I did send it to you guys.
It's not a five-minute video,it's like a minute, a minute and
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30 seconds.
It basically is a video thatproves velocity plus where am I
here?
Mass times, velocity equalsmomentum, which I think is the
next slide.
No, so momentum, the quantumfield of pure potential.
So Doug took us on this journey, started the journey and this
(04:38):
is where we're going with it.
The momentum that we mostlythink about is the momentum that
takes us somewhere in therelative world, the momentum,
and you even said, of ourcareers, the momentum of success
.
When I asked people yesterdaybecause we do a very
experiential service in PalmSprings I said where would you
say you were, if your life, ifthere's a momentum to your life,
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what number would you give it?
From one to 10?
And people were like seven,eight, 10 person said 180.
Um, and my point was you allgave me that number based on
success or based on what you'redoing in the world, right?
They all agreed.
Everybody was like yeah, that'swhat I mean, the momentum, what
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I'm making happen, the momentum.
Except that momentum, as I wantto talk about it today, is the
quantum field of purepotentiality.
So everybody knows what thequantum field is.
It's when you go so deep, so tothe smallest particle and then
beyond it, you start to see whatmakes all of this happen.
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You can call it God, the Godparticle, you can call it that
what is behind.
Emerson called it the over soul, that which is over everything
but not really over, kind ofunder and within and around.
And it is so.
This thing called the quantumfield is the energy that you are
, it's within you, it's behindevery cell in your body, it's
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behind everything that you do inlife.
So this little video was allabout.
It was a cute little videowhere it showed how big boulders
can come down a hill with aperson running away from it,
because that has a lot ofmomentum and perhaps the person
did it.
There's another part in thevideo where it has the apple.
There's another part in thevideo where it has the apple, an
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apple on a stand and it shows abullet shooting through the
apple and even though the bulletis small, the velocity is huge
and it shatters the apple.
Then it shows a cat Was it acat?
Some animal diving at the appleand the apple moves but it
doesn't break or anythingbecause even though that's
bigger than the bullet, itdoesn't have the same velocity.
So it's all about that.
(06:50):
But my question to you thismorning is, if we're going to
talk about mass and velocity,the bigness of it and the speed
of it, my question to you isthis how big are your thoughts
of it?
My question to you is this howbig are your thoughts, how big
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are your dreams?
How big are your desires?
How big, how massive is thelife you see for yourself, and
how fast is your mind working?
Are you open enough to let thisquantum field, this field of
energy that's pushing throughyou at all times?
Are you free enough, openenough to let it move through
(07:33):
you at such a fast speed thatyour life is like Doug's skis,
that you are on it and it'staking you?
So those are the two questionsI want you to think about today
how big are your thoughts andhow fast does the universe move
through you?
Okay, so we talked about thisbook this morning.
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So mass times, velocity equalsmomentum.
So the possibility principle byMel Schwartz.
I highly recommend it foranybody who wants to read about
quantum and how it affects yourlife and how to live from it.
It's a terrific little book.
So I have a few quotes fromthis book that I want to go over
In the nanosecond before yournext thought, you are in a state
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of pure potential.
Now, just think about that for asecond.
In the nanosecond before yournext thought, you are in a state
of pure potential.
How often do you think you arein a state of pure potential and
(08:39):
you're going to think?
Well, a lot, because I'm alwaysin a state of pure potential
before my next thought.
But not so much because many ofus think constantly and
constantly regurgitate the samethoughts over and over and over
again.
So we're on this loop.
So, even though, in thenanosecond before your next
thought, you're in a state ofpure potential, we tend to be
(09:01):
derailing that pure potentialityin our minds.
What would stop that?
Well, meditation, whatever youuse to slow down your mind, to
stop the thinking machine and toget in flow with what's coming
up, what wants to come up.
The uncertainty principle oflife, bringing you wherever it's
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leading you.
And that's what you're soexcited about, because that's
kind of how you're now livingyour life, from that place of
what is next.
Do you want me to get out ofthe way so you can take a
picture of that?
I love when I see the audiencegoing.
Could you move aside?
Wow, tough room.
Okay, right, yes, I'll stayover here so that you can get
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the rest of these, because allthe rest of the slides are
coming up now.
So here's the next one.
The thought you select willchart your path.
Why do you think you select thethoughts that you select?
Why do you think the thoughtsthat run through your mind are
selective to you?
Why do you think you havecertain thoughts and other
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people don't have certainthoughts?
If there's anything our worldis teaching us right now is that
we are in a world that is verydiametrically opposed to one
another, to different ideas,that there's so many different
thoughts going on all over theplace.
Why is that?
Why?
What'd you say?
Beliefs, yes, beliefs, butunderneath Momentum, momentos,
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yes, but underneath all of thatis a relatively perfect field of
pure potentiality.
That is everybody.
What happens is it rises up andsome people shut it down.
Some people shut it off becausethey're too busy thinking of
the next thought and the nextthing, as opposed to being open
(10:59):
to what wants to come through.
So the thought you select willchart your path.
So let's just say this amazingidea is coming through you, this
energy that is likeoverwhelming you, and you stop
and think of something elseinstead.
You don't allow it.
You just think what you've beenthinking for years and years
(11:20):
and years, oh, that's not goingto work for me.
Do you ever have one of thosemoments where something comes to
you and it's like going to workfor me?
Do you ever have one of thosemoments where something comes to
you and it's like, but it seemshuge, and you're like, oh, I
could never do that.
I could never do that.
Today and this month, as we movethrough the month of momentum,
I'm here to ask all of us tokind of spend the month never,
(11:44):
saying never, to really open upto the pure potentiality of the
universe, to open up to thingsthat maybe you have never
contemplated before.
So the thought we engage willsummon the reality of our next
moment.
Why is this different from thisone?
The thought you select willchart your path, but the thought
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you engage will summon thereality of your next moment.
Engaging something means youare all in.
You're engaging it.
You have decided to embody it.
How many things do you thinkyou have embodied in your
lifetime?
How many things right now doyou think you are embodying?
Beliefs, thoughts, trends,already established premises,
(12:29):
our AEPs how many things do youthink are going on inside of you
that you have already engagedand engaged it to create in your
life?
It's something to think about'tit?
Because the truth is, beforethe engagement came the
courtship.
Before the courtship came thisfield, where everything was
(12:53):
possible.
So I'm suggesting we find thatplace again, that place where
everything is possible, and payattention to what our next
thought is and then payattention to how we engage that
thought.
Many of us right now are in themiddle of a very full engagement
and when that happens, it'svery difficult for the momentum
(13:16):
of the universe to find you.
It's there, but you have to getout of the way.
So the potential is all thatexists prior to the next thought
.
So I'm going to check in rightnow on you and ask you you don't
have to answer this, but do youbelieve all this?
Okay, I just said you didn'thave to answer, but good for you
(13:40):
, anthony, I do too, but youneed to know if you do or not,
because the truth is, if youdon't, or if you think it's cute
or if you think it's justinteresting, it's not going to
benefit you as much, becausefirst you have to understand who
you are.
You have to remember who youare.
That's really what this isabout.
When you remember you are thequantum momentum, constantly
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evolving, constantly growing,constantly expanding, constantly
creating.
When you realize that's who youare, it's a different, it's a
book, it's a game changer.
You live life differently.
I guarantee you, when you reallyget this, you will not be able
to just think these thoughtsthat you know are derailing you.
How many thoughts do you thinkduring the day go against what
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you say you want?
And I know you could probablybe sitting there also thinking
well, this sounds exhausting, soI have to think about
everything I'm thinking.
But it's not really that.
It's more about being awake.
It's not trying to stop thethoughts, it's about being awake
(14:52):
to them, paying attention tothem.
Our struggle with change iscaused by our habituation to old
thoughts.
And I use the old woman withthe apple from Snow White
because I think Snow White'sgetting a bum rap.
So I use the old woman with theapple from Snow White because I
think Snow White's getting abum rap.
So I thought I'd do that.
And because here's the thing Ithink of my thoughts, some of my
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thoughts, as that witch in SnowWhite saying here you go, try
this.
All those thoughts that arestill telling me you're unworthy
, you're getting old, yourbody's going to get worse, all
those things that we have beentold over the years, all the
things that we've bought into,are just like that apple.
(15:38):
We take a bite out of itconstantly and we're poisoning
ourselves with our thoughts.
We're poisoning ourselves withour beliefs, and those beliefs
are what is causing our life,our life, to unfold the way it
does.
This is one of my favoritepictures I've ever found.
Are you the banana outside themirror or are you the banana
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inside the mirror Right?
Are you a good rich or you abad witch?
So if you can learn to see thethought, you don't have to
become the thought.
How many bananas do I have herethat look in the mirror and see
something else?
I mean, look at that banana.
It is a perfect, organic.
I know this, I checked.
It's an organic banana,perfectly shaped.
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It's perfect in every way,nutritious.
It's an organic banana,perfectly shaped.
It's perfect in every way,nutritious.
It's amazing.
But that's what it sees, and Iknow this is funny.
But you're this banana.
We are all this banana.
How many dark spots are weseeing when we look in the
mirror?
And age is a big thing.
(16:41):
Age is a big issue in thiscountry, in the world, but there
are some cultures that don'tlook at age the way we look at
age.
I mean.
The truth is can you live to110, 120, fully healthy, your
body in great shape, your mindclear and everything perfect in
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your life?
Could you?
The answer is yes, we reallycan.
We have everything necessaryfor that to be true.
The only thing that stops us isthat banana Is you.
That's the only thing thatstops us.
We buy into all of these things.
And you know, for somebody whojust turned 70, I'm really
(17:23):
paying attention to when I geton that train of I'm getting old
.
Or you know, for somebody whojust turned 70, I'm really
paying attention to when I geton that train of I'm getting old
.
Or you know how many peoplewake up in the morning and
they're just a little bit soreor they're just a little bit
tired when they wake up.
Two hands, really.
That was good, ok, so I did.
Recently I woke up and I pickedup the dog and I popped a muscle
(17:43):
and my back was out.
But I didn't have time for myback to be out and I also
realized that my back was incharge.
My mind was in charge of myback.
So I did go to the chiropractor, because we do believe in the
pill and the prayer.
I went to the chiropractor.
He did it.
He said you should come backevery other day for the rest of
the week.
I said I won't be here.
This is it, this is the shotyou get and this is done.
(18:03):
This is done today.
He said no, it's going to takea while, and don't pick anything
up, don't go to the gym.
And I was like that's nothappening either.
So so I just said, okay, I'mdone, but but the pain.
So bring up the pain.
For this reason, pain anddisease and issues that come on
in your life it's difficultbecause they have such energy,
(18:23):
don't they?
Especially pain.
It keeps hitting you, sayingpay attention to me, pay
attention to me, and what are wetalking about here?
Where your thoughts go, theregoes your life.
So when you're getting allthese pains and issues going on
in your life, our engagement ofthem is what's causing the
problem.
Can we just not know the truthright away?
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Can't we just know the truth?
Okay, you picked up the dog,you popped your back.
Your back is fine.
It'll be great.
And that was it.
And so, by the end of the day,I kept fighting my mind going
yep, that hurts.
Nope, it's good, it's all.
It's unfolding perfectly.
I did what I needed to do by theend of the thinking about my
back, and Kevin said to me how'syour back?
I went oh, it's good, that wasit.
That was my back.
(19:05):
That was that one day.
Same thing when I got, when Iwas diagnosed with stage four
cancer and it was basically 20%you have a 20% chance to make it
to August I was like that's notgoing to happen.
And I knew it.
I absolutely knew it.
I knew I was not going to die.
(19:27):
I did, but as my, as my doctorsaid to me.
She said you should have knownthat you weren't going to get
nauseous, because if you're thatgood with your mind, maybe you
should have worked on allaspects instead of just that you
weren't going to lose your hair.
Because I did not lose my hair.
My hair was just very importantto me.
I was like you know what?
I will suffer every indignity,I will not go bald.
And the doctors were like youwill go bald and you should
(19:48):
shave your head now, cause myhair was down to here at the
time.
You should shave your head now,because when it falls out it
scares people.
I said it's not falling outevery week.
I'd come in for chemo everyother day or whatever it was.
And she'd be like, wow, youstill kept your hair.
I was like it's not goinganywhere.
I never I lost a little bit ofhair back here.
(20:08):
That was it Totally.
But then it grew in black and Ithought I should have gone bald
.
I would not have gray hair, myhair would be just black.
Why am I telling you this?
So your thoughts, what you aredoing with your mind, is what's
creating the life you're living.
So the banana slide is myfavorite.
(20:33):
So the quantum view of theuniverse tells us that reality
unfolds perpetually from a stateof potential.
Right now, in this moment, yourlife is unfolding from a state
of pure potentiality.
It just depends on what everysingle one of you, what thoughts
coming next After that?
I am pure potentiality, Nowwhat?
(20:56):
But I'm also this age and Ihave this much money and blah,
blah and we do all of that.
So right now you're in thisfull state of potentiality and
the question is what are yougoing to do with it, what
thought is coming next?
Momentum is nothing more thanpotential unfolding.
The momentum I'm talking about,which is not mass times,
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velocity equals momentum.
It is the quantum field, isfully alive, fully moving, fully
bringing you into its life ofunlimited potential.
That's the momentum I'm talkingabout and that's the momentum
that we need to tap into thismonth.
(21:40):
Every day, when you wake up,before you start thinking about
what your day is going to be orwhat your body is doing or
anything, before you think ofanything, think momentum.
Give yourself permission to dothat.
So here are a few little steps.
First of all, understandeverything I said today.
Lori's like really Giveyourself permission to
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understand what I have spoken oftoday.
What momentum is who you are,what that energy is inside of
you, what you have thecapability of, what is possible
for you.
Understand that right.
Secondly, know it, which reallyis, believe it, embody it,
engage that the truth of who youare right.
So understand it first, know itreally, embody it.
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The third one is use it,because this is for you to use.
I don't speak on Sundays becauseit's well, it is fun, I love
doing this, but I don't just.
What I want to do is use thisteaching?
If I can't use it, why are wetalking about it?
If it's not going to benefit mylife in some way, why am I
talking about it?
So understand it, know it, thenuse it and then, the most
(22:48):
important part, guide it.
How does?
Why do I say guide it?
Because once I understand it,once I actually embody it and
once I start using it, I have tokeep guiding it.
I can't let something else comein and derail me.
I can't let all of thosethoughts, those habitual
thoughts, take everything that Iknow and throw it out the
(23:11):
window while I create adifferent life that I don't want
.
So understand it, know it, useit and guide it.
So, in conclusion, the reasonwhy Never Say Never, worked for
me was there are things in mylife that I've said never to, or
(23:35):
there are things in my liferight now that I came I don't
want to put this came to termswith when I was looking at some
things that I would like to doin my life and I heard in my
head that's never going tohappen for you again.
I was like, wow, why?
(23:56):
And then I had a dream.
I had.
And then I had a dream.
I had a dream.
I had a dream, a dream aboutyou.
No, go there.
I had a dream, and not to getthrough a whole talk without
saying West Side Story, but hereit goes.
I had a dream and I was on stageat the Minskoff Theater, in the
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wings, and I'm standing thereand the stage manager is saying
to me, asking me how I'm feelingand all I'm like, I'm good, I'm
good.
He said do you remembereverything?
I was like, yeah, yeah, but Idon't know that I should do this
.
And the orchestra starts thatand in my sleep I feel the
goosebumps and I'm like why didI think I should go play riff at
(24:40):
70?
This is going to be reallydifficult.
And I went through this wholething and then the thing started
and they're like you need to beon stage.
And I got on stage and I tookmy position, you know, and it
started and I started snappingmy finger and just as I had to
start the sailing step, I wokeup.
I was so grateful that I wokeup, but I woke up to that
(25:01):
because I had gone to bedthinking I would love to do that
again.
I would love that moment againwhere I'm standing on a Broadway
stage, center stage with thespotlights all on me starting
the show.
I just I would love to do thatagain.
And I heard myself say thatthat that is never going to
happen again that way.
(25:21):
I was like wow, really, becauseyou just made that happen.
You just made that never areality.
So I'm here to tell you I'm notdoing West Side Story again.
But something happened.
I get an email the very next dayfrom the artistic director of
the Fountain Theater and you'rejust going to laugh when you see
(25:45):
how momentum works and hewrites me this email and he says
there is a play written by annot Armenian Saudi writer that
is being done all around theUnited States.
It's on Broadway.
Nathan Lane's going to do it.
A bunch of actors are going todo it all over the United States
.
He said and we would like youto be one of the actors that
(26:08):
does this play.
Now, I have not acted on a stagethat way in years and I haven't
really been pursuing it,although I did mention to a
casting director.
I'm available If a part comesup that I'd be right for, let me
know.
So you know that let me knowthing.
And so he explains the projectto me and it's about.
It's a one person show.
(26:29):
You don't get the script tillan hour before the show.
It's totally sold out.
I mean, it's a sellout event.
It's at the Fountain Theater.
You will get the script an hourbefore but you can't open it.
You come out on stage, weintroduce you and then you open
the script and it's a 90-minuteone-person play and you go
(26:52):
without knowing anything.
First of all, that's theactor's nightmare to be on stage
unrehearsed.
And secondly, I'd already hadthe nightmare.
And secondly, it's one personcenter stage with all lights on
him, ready to do a show.
And I was back at the car whenit came in and I just turned to
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Kevin and I showed him the emailand he just said are you going
to do it?
And I said yes.
So I said yes to it.
I will let you all know whatthat date is.
I'm just hoping it's notsomething.
No, it's going to be great.
I mean, nathan Lane's doing it,audrey McDonald's doing it, a
lot of stars are doing it, andthen some of us actors that were
(27:35):
Broadway stars get to do it aswell.
So our Broadway stars get to doit as well.
So are Broadway stars?
Well, I was a Broadway star andI will be a Broadway star.
I will always be a Broadwaystar in my own mind.
So never say never.
You need to find out.
What are your nevers?
What have you put in thatcolumn of never?
This is never going to happen.
I'm never going to do this.
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This is never going to work forme.
I'm never going to happen.
I'm never going to do this.
This is never going to work forme.
I'm never going to do thisagain.
I'm never going to feel thisway again.
Whatever that is, this is ourmonth to let that go, to get it
off the table and to get backinto that momentum of allowing
the quantum field, that purepotentiality that you are, to
move through and as you, andthen let's see what happens to
(28:21):
all of us, namaste.
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