April 15, 2025 • 24 mins
The momentum of life flows constantly regardless of our awareness, and understanding this force as the divine essence within us transforms how we navigate our journey. This powerful perspective helps us realize that while unexpected turns occur in everyone's path, our reaction to circumstances matters more than the circumstances themselves.
• Life has momentum whether we actively participate or not
• Our understanding of God evolves as we grow spiritually
• Recognizing the "master observer" or divine essence within everything
• Motion is constant, but action requires our conscious choice
• We determine our life's trajectory by how we respond to challenges
• The most devastating experiences don't need to stop our forward movement
• Each decade of life has its purpose and every lesson is a gift
• Your purpose is to express life more fully through your unique being
• You decide which ride your life becomes by participating in its momentum
• The direction of your life is always ahead, never behind
Life is taking you on a ride, but you are the one who decides which ride it's going to be. It's not behind you, it's in front of you.
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
So the title of my talk today is when you
Going.
It's actually when Ya Going,but Laurie really hates writing
words out that don't exist whenYa Going, which is why I asked
you that when are you going,right?
So I have a question for youall today Looking at your life
from where you're sitting rightnow, where would you say your
(00:25):
life is going Different fromwhere you're going?
I'm not asking you to figureout where you're going.
I'm saying looking at your lifetoday, right from where you sit
, diane, with everything that'shappened up to this point, where
do you see your life going?
Do you have a sense of it?
(00:45):
Or are you just a feather inthe wind, letting it take you
wherever it's going?
Do you have a sense of it,gabby?
Where your life is going, it'sunfolding perfectly.
Yes.
So the lyric is life sayswherever I go, you're going
there too.
Now it's funny because I wrotethose lyrics back in 2006.
(01:06):
And so I'm thinking to myselfwow, how much of this song do I
still believe, how much of thissong really resonates with me,
because in those days I was justbecoming a minister, I was just
starting my ministry very earlyon.
So life says wherever I go,you're going there too.
(01:30):
I couldn't have known when Iwrote those lyrics where I was
going, what my life was going tobe like going forward.
You can't really know right nowwhat your life is going to be
like going forward.
You know people, things happen,like Kelly's family.
Something happens, that life,that family, is changed
(01:51):
profoundly for the rest of theirlives, kevin and I profoundly
changed.
You know, I wrote that songfour years before I was
diagnosed with stage four cancer.
I couldn't have known that thatwas in my future that was going
to show up.
I wrote that song 12 yearsbefore we had to say goodbye to
our daughter.
(02:11):
I couldn't have never knownthat.
I would never have guessed thatanything like that could have
happened.
I wrote that song 14 yearsbefore a pandemic would
literally turn everything upsidedown, even at this center, 12
years before we actually turnedtwo centers into one center,
(02:34):
right 17 years before I wouldhave a heart attack.
I couldn't have known back in2006 when I wrote wherever life
says wherever I go, you're goingthere too.
Does that mean that lifebrought me to cancer?
That life brought me to a heartattack?
(02:56):
That life brought me to themoment where my daughter passed?
Does that mean that all of thatwas played out, because they
all seem like negative things,but there's also the positive
parts of it.
Right In 2006, when I wrotethat that was four years before
we began producing what would beour first Broadway show, that
we produced from soup to nuts toBroadway Could I have known
(03:20):
that?
I might have guessed it, wishedit right and, as I said, 12
years before NoHo and WestlakeVillage turned into one thing, I
never had a thought about that.
So when I say to you, where doyou see your life going?
Your answer is correct it'sunfolding.
I don't know, but there issomething to know which is
(03:42):
really important, because when Ilook back, there were successes
and failures, there were joyousoccasions, there were
heartbreaks, betrayals, amazingfriendships, things that just
keep growing and developing onboth sides of that spectrum,
wherever life goes, you're goingthere too.
You're going there too.
(04:06):
So back in the early days of myministry in 2006, I was teaching
the science of mind pretty muchright out of the textbook.
I had good Ernest Holmes quotesevery Sunday and I was teaching
that philosophy.
Little did I know in 2006 I wasalready 50 years behind where
Ernest Holmes was when he died,because for some reason, we were
(04:27):
all still teaching the 1926book.
But you know, years later I'mreading the seminar lectures and
then I get involved in quantumphysics and I start to really
understand what.
I actually start to reallyquestion what is this world?
And I really start to questionwhat is god and how does god fit
(04:47):
into my life?
And when I came up with the, Ididn't come up with it, but when
I bought into the understandingof I am god, and and and
realized the, the negativeenergy that was coming at me
from saying such an audaciousthing such as I am God, it was
(05:10):
really difficult, especially inmy own religion, in religious
science, which most of thepeople, most of the people
running that group, were likeyou cannot keep saying that
You're going to alienate people,and that was true in terms of
the alienation.
But do we stop telling thetruth because we're going to
(05:31):
hurt people's feelings?
Do we stop saying what's reallygoing on because we're going to
lose customers?
We're going to lose congregants?
No, we don't.
So in 2006, I had one versionof what God was and who I was in
the midst of that God story.
But in 2025, almost when we getto 2026, you know, 20 years
(05:53):
later, I'm a very differentperson and I'm still asking
myself.
Life says wherever I go, you'regoing there too.
But now I understand, almost 20years later, things are much
more complex about this thingcalled God and this thing called
religion and this thing calledreligious science and this thing
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called quantum mechanics,quantum physics, quantum
metaphysics.
It's very complex and yet thisweek I stepped into my advanced
consciousness class with such asimple understanding, one of
those you ever have, one ofthose moments where everything
just goes.
Oh, it was like this aha moment, and I was aware that when I
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stepped into class, I was aboutto say something that was going
to get some reaction, which wasunderstanding God in a much
different way, yet almost takingit all the way back to my first
understanding of God.
And it did.
It caused well, doug was in theroom, doug knows it caused a
(07:01):
lot of people to.
There were a lot of otheropinions about what that means,
but you know what the real issueis.
It's really about the word God.
The word God is so divisive.
(07:30):
The word God causes wars.
The word God causes people tohate each other.
The word God causes people totreat each other badly.
The word God, but the idea andthe energy of the word itself is
what suddenly made sense to me,and it was all around momentum.
We were talking about theobserver effect, which in
quantum science says that whatyou look at expands when
something is observed, itenergizes it, it feels the
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observation, the observationitself expands, it ripples
energy, it's about vibrationsand that's called the observer
effect.
So then I said, and then therewas this thing where people talk
about in quantum mechanics, andEinstein said this, which is
what really pissed him off aboutquantum mechanics If I am not
(08:11):
looking at the moon, does themoon really exist?
Because if I'm not there toobserve it, it doesn't exist.
That's isn't that crazy?
Doesn't that sound crazy to you?
Oh, some of you are like no,not at all, but it is, and
that's why, why Einstein calledit that spooky, crazy science.
(08:35):
But I understood it finally,because that's got questions
come to me for years now.
Well, do we believe that thatif I don't look at the moon,
it's not there, it's onlyanything's only there because
you observe it?
No, because inherent in allthings is.
And I called it I will say itwas not the best choice of words
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on my part, because I watched20 screens blow up.
I said, you know, it's like themaster observer.
And people are like okay, Ihate the word master, you can't
even call your bedroom thatanymore, right?
Yeah, so, but that's what Imeant, though, the, as Emerson
called it, the oversoul, thatthing inside everything.
(09:18):
The Baltimore Catechism how manyCatholics, ex-Catholics,
baltimore?
You're still a Catholic?
How many Catholics, yeah, or ex, and still Catholics?
Where is God?
God is God is everywhere.
God is everywhere, right?
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So if God is everywhere, god isinherent in all things,
everywhere Physical, mental,emotional.
It's all God.
Well, if God's everywhere,steve Brabant is not outside the
limits of everywhere.
So Steve Brabant is not outsidethe limits of everywhere.
So Steve Brabant is God.
Wow, Diane, you're turning intoKevin, but it's true, there's
(10:06):
God.
Sorry, diane, but there is Godat the level of your ability to
understand that, which is prettydamn high.
Right, julio is God sittingthere on that chair.
That's God.
That is the expression of Godthat has come into play.
And if I don't look at Julio,he doesn't evaporate, he doesn't
disappear.
(10:26):
This isn't wheel of time, whereeverything disappears all of a
sudden.
No, he's right there.
Why?
Because there's somethinginherent inside of Julio that is
observing at all times that isalive, that keeps everything
alive and flowing and moving,and you know what it's called.
Thank you, who said that verysoftly?
Say it loud, catherine.
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Momentum.
It's called.
God is the momentum.
God is the momentum of yourlife.
It's something inside of youthat is constantly, constantly,
constantly expanding, moving,growing, moving one step in
front of the other, constantlychanging things.
It's up to us.
However, I'm going to just letyou do the slides, swan.
Would you give me this firstquote by Benjamin Franklin Never
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confuse motion with action.
The world is in motion, theuniverse is in motion.
Your life is in constant motion.
Momentum is constantlyhappening, but if you don't take
action within the momentum, youare basically sitting with
Tiffany on her couch waiting forsome Netflix show to start over
(11:37):
.
It's about the active use ofmomentum that changes your life.
It's the active use of momentumthat changes the trajectory of
your life.
So where are you going to takemomentum and start acting upon
it and start making your lifewhat you want it to be?
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What action are you takingright now, within the velocity
of your life?
So this whole God thing.
When I went into class thisWednesday, I had such an
expanded heart Because you knowyou can get into this teaching,
you can get into these newthought teachings and suddenly
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lose all the heart, lose all theemotion, lose all the love,
even though we teach it.
God is love.
Love is the center ofeverything.
But we've all all of us thatembrace this teaching we have
all lost that God outside ofourselves.
That is funny because I askedone person.
I said tell me what was the Godlike before you got into
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religious science?
I was expecting I asked.
A girl who was a Baptist came upin the Baptist church and I
thought she was going to say Ihad an idea of what I thought
she was going to say.
She went the exact opposite.
She was like he was vengeful,angry.
He always, always he judged me.
I was like, oh my God, I shouldhave asked someone else,
(13:04):
because what I was looking forwas, well, he was loving and
embracing, it was like a fatherfigure that held me.
So I had to go to a Jewishperson for that, to ask them who
that was.
But that's the thing We've lost, that.
I don't mind losing the BaptistGod, I don't mind losing the
judging vengeful.
You know, I'll get you mylittle wicked witch of the West.
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I don't mind that God beinglost, but I miss the embracing
God.
I miss my Jesus.
Today is Palm Sunday.
Today is the day when Jesusshowed up and they threw the
world at his feet, saying youare the Messiah, you are the
King, you are everything we'veever waited for.
A week later, they wouldcrucify him.
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So it's a crazy world, but Imiss that God.
And coming into this teaching,there were years when I was
really miffed.
It's like well, so where is I?
Know where God is, I know it'sme, but where's the?
And then this week, all of asudden, I was like I get it, it
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is me, but it's more than me,it's bigger.
Ernest Holmes was right there'sa power for good in the universe
greater than you are, and youcan use it because you are it.
You just have not risen to thelevel.
Well, they don't rise till nextSunday, on Easter, but you
haven't risen to the level ofunderstanding that you are all
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of the entire ocean in a drop,as Rumi has told us.
So so the question is, ifmomentum is moving me in giving
me the motion of life, what's myjob in this?
What is my job in this?
So my next slide is a slidefrom a brilliant baseball player
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, ted Williams.
Ted Williams was 19 years inMajor League Baseball left field
for the Boston Red Sox and if Ihad a dime for every time my
parents accused me of being lostin left field, I'd be rich.
So he said, just keep going.
Everything gets better if theyjust keep at it.
Think about that.
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Just keep going.
How often do we stop?
How often do we get derailed?
How often do we let somethingthat's happened in the past stop
us from going forward?
Happened in the past, stop usfrom going forward?
I guess it was walking with you, kevin, wasn't it?
Who was I walking with on thestreet, with the little girl
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with the blonde hair?
We were walking the dog.
We were walking the dog andthere was a guy with a stroller
and his little daughter wasplaying with bubbles outside of
the stroller and from where westood it looked exactly like
Nora.
It had the same haircut she hadat that age and I didn't say
anything, I just kept walkingand Kevin didn't say it until he
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turned and he went.
Are you thinking about Nora?
And that came up.
But it didn't come up to derailme.
It came up to inspire me, toremind me of all the good stuff,
of all the fun times, of allthe beautiful moments in our
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life with our beautiful daughter.
It would have been very easy tolet that moment in my life stop
me and just stop doing what Iwas doing, or stop me from
believing what I believe, andthat didn't happen.
So the question I have for youthis morning is really, what
stops you from going forward,what stops you from keeping at
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it?
What makes you give up?
Because the truth is, momentumnever gives up.
Momentum's always there.
Your life is right there, justwaiting for you to say yes to it
, waiting for you to say take me, take me, bring me along, show
me what, show me what I need toknow, show me what I need to do,
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show me who I need to be.
So the momentum of your life,unfortunately, is dependent on
your reaction to how lifeunfolds around you.
And that list I gave you at thetop of my talk, those things,
yeah, cancer, heart attack,losing a child, all those things
(17:32):
that are so devastating.
Losing a child, they say, isthe most devastating loss you
will ever, ever experience, andI would like to think that none
of you have to ever experienceit, because I believe that's
probably true, but none of thosethings.
When I look at all of thosethings, none of them are as
important as my reaction tothose things.
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They don't exist on their own.
They're just facts in a verybig world of facts.
Your reaction to it is thiskeep going.
Your reaction is what's thereaction?
What are you going to act uponin the face of whatever's going
on?
So that's what I want you tolook at today because, frankly,
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the momentum doesn't end.
You know that that who you areis going to keep going no matter
what, and it can go in a mostmagnificent way.
You know lizard it's now calleda boy called lizard.
Variety said about the showwhen we opened it.
Nothing as sweepingly it's nowcalled A Boy Called Lizard.
Variety said about the showwhen we opened it.
Nothing as sweepingly beautifulhas been produced on Broadway
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this season.
It got the most magnificentreviews.
The author of the novel flew into see the show and I had
rewritten a lot of it andchanged things like the fact
that Callahan becomes the father, and then I changed it.
Poor Janet who played themother she I changed it right
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before we opened.
She went.
I based my whole, my wholecharacter on the fact that he
wasn't the father.
I said, well, he is, now, dealwith it, because I'm a sensitive
director.
And so there he flies and heloved it.
He went.
I wish I had thought to makehim the father and it was just
this beautiful experience.
And then, a year later, it getswhat's called the Distinguished
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Play Award from the Alliance forTheater and Education for my
adaptation of the novel, the oneshow that was picked as the
best adaptation of the year.
And I tell you that, not toboast, because that plaque sits
in my office and it's nothanging up, and I noticed it
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this morning.
I was like you're still justsitting there and the show was
produced by Samuel French.
And I got a check this year forI got a check from Samuel
French for the shows that havebeen produced this year that I
wrote None of them for Lizard,all for Yo-Ho-Ho, a Pirate's
Christmas.
And Kevin and I talked and Isaid why do you suppose no one's
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produced a show that was sowell reviewed, that has so many
great parts for actors?
Why do you think?
And we didn't have an answerthen.
But I have an answer now,because I haven't taken action,
because I let something.
Stop me, because I put it down.
There was amazing momentum onthat show.
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I put it down so you can havegreat momentum, and you have
great momentum going on in yourlife right now, whether you know
it or not.
But are you rising to theoccasion and joining the
momentum?
Are you taking the ride or areyou just watching the ride?
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So, to conclude, this morningRick Tamlin sent out a little
thing that Nancy Bergeron wroteDr Nancy Bergeron and she wrote
this thing called Decades of myLife and it was all about her
20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s,her 60s, her 70s, and she gave
little things about.
Each decade stopped at the 70sand she's now 92, going on 21.
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So here's what she wrote, and Iwant to close with this.
She said here are my finalthoughts right now.
Every decade has its purposeand every lesson is a gift.
If I could go back, I'd remindmyself to color outside the
lines, to wear red and purpleand things that don't match.
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I'd be more patient with myselfand others and believe in
myself much more.
So stop apologizing for who youare, knowing.
You are a unique andirreplaceable being created by
life so that it might be morefully expressed by means of you.
You are here on purpose, soembrace each decade of your life
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with gusto, knowing that evermore good is just around the
corner, waiting for you.
Reverend Dr Nancy Bergeron, at92, who does not slow down, in
case you haven't noticed.
So here's what I want to leaveyou with.
Your life has momentum.
Life itself is momentum.
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God is the momentum inside ofyou, observing you, tiffany.
It is the master observer.
Don't care at this point, it'sthe master observer inherent in
every cell in your body, sayingyes, you are here.
You can never not be here.
You do not disappear wheneverybody walks away from you.
You are still vital, vibrant,and anything you want to
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accomplish, you get toaccomplish because the momentum
of life is accomplishing.
Everything everywhere, all atonce.
Life is taking you on a ride.
Everything everywhere, all atonce.
Life is taking you on a ride,but you, you, are the one who
decides which ride it's going tobe.
So my last question to youtoday is where you going, and
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I'll give you a hint it's notbehind you, it's in front of you
, namaste.
So the title of my talk today is when you
Going.
It's actually when Ya Going,but Laurie really hates writing
words out that don't exist whenYa Going, which is why I asked
you that when are you going,right?
So I have a question for youall today Looking at your life
from where you're sitting rightnow, where would you say your
(00:25):
life is going Different fromwhere you're going?
I'm not asking you to figureout where you're going.
I'm saying looking at your lifetoday, right from where you sit
, diane, with everything that'shappened up to this point, where
do you see your life going?
Do you have a sense of it?
(00:45):
Or are you just a feather inthe wind, letting it take you
wherever it's going?
Do you have a sense of it,gabby?
Where your life is going, it'sunfolding perfectly.
Yes.
So the lyric is life sayswherever I go, you're going
there too.
Now it's funny because I wrotethose lyrics back in 2006.
(01:06):
And so I'm thinking to myselfwow, how much of this song do I
still believe, how much of thissong really resonates with me,
because in those days I was justbecoming a minister, I was just
starting my ministry very earlyon.
So life says wherever I go,you're going there too.
(01:30):
I couldn't have known when Iwrote those lyrics where I was
going, what my life was going tobe like going forward.
You can't really know right nowwhat your life is going to be
like going forward.
You know people, things happen,like Kelly's family.
Something happens, that life,that family, is changed
(01:51):
profoundly for the rest of theirlives, kevin and I profoundly
changed.
You know, I wrote that songfour years before I was
diagnosed with stage four cancer.
I couldn't have known that thatwas in my future that was going
to show up.
I wrote that song 12 yearsbefore we had to say goodbye to
our daughter.
(02:11):
I couldn't have never knownthat.
I would never have guessed thatanything like that could have
happened.
I wrote that song 14 yearsbefore a pandemic would
literally turn everything upsidedown, even at this center, 12
years before we actually turnedtwo centers into one center,
(02:34):
right 17 years before I wouldhave a heart attack.
I couldn't have known back in2006 when I wrote wherever life
says wherever I go, you're goingthere too.
Does that mean that lifebrought me to cancer?
That life brought me to a heartattack?
(02:56):
That life brought me to themoment where my daughter passed?
Does that mean that all of thatwas played out, because they
all seem like negative things,but there's also the positive
parts of it.
Right In 2006, when I wrotethat that was four years before
we began producing what would beour first Broadway show, that
we produced from soup to nuts toBroadway Could I have known
(03:20):
that?
I might have guessed it, wishedit right and, as I said, 12
years before NoHo and WestlakeVillage turned into one thing, I
never had a thought about that.
So when I say to you, where doyou see your life going?
Your answer is correct it'sunfolding.
I don't know, but there issomething to know which is
(03:42):
really important, because when Ilook back, there were successes
and failures, there were joyousoccasions, there were
heartbreaks, betrayals, amazingfriendships, things that just
keep growing and developing onboth sides of that spectrum,
wherever life goes, you're goingthere too.
You're going there too.
(04:06):
So back in the early days of myministry in 2006, I was teaching
the science of mind pretty muchright out of the textbook.
I had good Ernest Holmes quotesevery Sunday and I was teaching
that philosophy.
Little did I know in 2006 I wasalready 50 years behind where
Ernest Holmes was when he died,because for some reason, we were
(04:27):
all still teaching the 1926book.
But you know, years later I'mreading the seminar lectures and
then I get involved in quantumphysics and I start to really
understand what.
I actually start to reallyquestion what is this world?
And I really start to questionwhat is god and how does god fit
(04:47):
into my life?
And when I came up with the, Ididn't come up with it, but when
I bought into the understandingof I am god, and and and
realized the, the negativeenergy that was coming at me
from saying such an audaciousthing such as I am God, it was
(05:10):
really difficult, especially inmy own religion, in religious
science, which most of thepeople, most of the people
running that group, were likeyou cannot keep saying that
You're going to alienate people,and that was true in terms of
the alienation.
But do we stop telling thetruth because we're going to
(05:31):
hurt people's feelings?
Do we stop saying what's reallygoing on because we're going to
lose customers?
We're going to lose congregants?
No, we don't.
So in 2006, I had one versionof what God was and who I was in
the midst of that God story.
But in 2025, almost when we getto 2026, you know, 20 years
(05:53):
later, I'm a very differentperson and I'm still asking
myself.
Life says wherever I go, you'regoing there too.
But now I understand, almost 20years later, things are much
more complex about this thingcalled God and this thing called
religion and this thing calledreligious science and this thing
(06:15):
called quantum mechanics,quantum physics, quantum
metaphysics.
It's very complex and yet thisweek I stepped into my advanced
consciousness class with such asimple understanding, one of
those you ever have, one ofthose moments where everything
just goes.
Oh, it was like this aha moment, and I was aware that when I
(06:39):
stepped into class, I was aboutto say something that was going
to get some reaction, which wasunderstanding God in a much
different way, yet almost takingit all the way back to my first
understanding of God.
And it did.
It caused well, doug was in theroom, doug knows it caused a
(07:01):
lot of people to.
There were a lot of otheropinions about what that means,
but you know what the real issueis.
It's really about the word God.
The word God is so divisive.
(07:30):
The word God causes wars.
The word God causes people tohate each other.
The word God causes people totreat each other badly.
The word God, but the idea andthe energy of the word itself is
what suddenly made sense to me,and it was all around momentum.
We were talking about theobserver effect, which in
quantum science says that whatyou look at expands when
something is observed, itenergizes it, it feels the
(07:50):
observation, the observationitself expands, it ripples
energy, it's about vibrationsand that's called the observer
effect.
So then I said, and then therewas this thing where people talk
about in quantum mechanics, andEinstein said this, which is
what really pissed him off aboutquantum mechanics If I am not
(08:11):
looking at the moon, does themoon really exist?
Because if I'm not there toobserve it, it doesn't exist.
That's isn't that crazy?
Doesn't that sound crazy to you?
Oh, some of you are like no,not at all, but it is, and
that's why, why Einstein calledit that spooky, crazy science.
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But I understood it finally,because that's got questions
come to me for years now.
Well, do we believe that thatif I don't look at the moon,
it's not there, it's onlyanything's only there because
you observe it?
No, because inherent in allthings is.
And I called it I will say itwas not the best choice of words
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on my part, because I watched20 screens blow up.
I said, you know, it's like themaster observer.
And people are like okay, Ihate the word master, you can't
even call your bedroom thatanymore, right?
Yeah, so, but that's what Imeant, though, the, as Emerson
called it, the oversoul, thatthing inside everything.
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The Baltimore Catechism how manyCatholics, ex-Catholics,
baltimore?
You're still a Catholic?
How many Catholics, yeah, or ex, and still Catholics?
Where is God?
God is God is everywhere.
God is everywhere, right?
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So if God is everywhere, god isinherent in all things,
everywhere Physical, mental,emotional.
It's all God.
Well, if God's everywhere,steve Brabant is not outside the
limits of everywhere.
So Steve Brabant is not outsidethe limits of everywhere.
So Steve Brabant is God.
Wow, Diane, you're turning intoKevin, but it's true, there's
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God.
Sorry, diane, but there is Godat the level of your ability to
understand that, which is prettydamn high.
Right, julio is God sittingthere on that chair.
That's God.
That is the expression of Godthat has come into play.
And if I don't look at Julio,he doesn't evaporate, he doesn't
disappear.
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This isn't wheel of time, whereeverything disappears all of a
sudden.
No, he's right there.
Why?
Because there's somethinginherent inside of Julio that is
observing at all times that isalive, that keeps everything
alive and flowing and moving,and you know what it's called.
Thank you, who said that verysoftly?
Say it loud, catherine.
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Momentum.
It's called.
God is the momentum.
God is the momentum of yourlife.
It's something inside of youthat is constantly, constantly,
constantly expanding, moving,growing, moving one step in
front of the other, constantlychanging things.
It's up to us.
However, I'm going to just letyou do the slides, swan.
Would you give me this firstquote by Benjamin Franklin Never
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confuse motion with action.
The world is in motion, theuniverse is in motion.
Your life is in constant motion.
Momentum is constantlyhappening, but if you don't take
action within the momentum, youare basically sitting with
Tiffany on her couch waiting forsome Netflix show to start over
(11:37):
.
It's about the active use ofmomentum that changes your life.
It's the active use of momentumthat changes the trajectory of
your life.
So where are you going to takemomentum and start acting upon
it and start making your lifewhat you want it to be?
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What action are you takingright now, within the velocity
of your life?
So this whole God thing.
When I went into class thisWednesday, I had such an
expanded heart Because you knowyou can get into this teaching,
you can get into these newthought teachings and suddenly
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lose all the heart, lose all theemotion, lose all the love,
even though we teach it.
God is love.
Love is the center ofeverything.
But we've all all of us thatembrace this teaching we have
all lost that God outside ofourselves.
That is funny because I askedone person.
I said tell me what was the Godlike before you got into
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religious science?
I was expecting I asked.
A girl who was a Baptist came upin the Baptist church and I
thought she was going to say Ihad an idea of what I thought
she was going to say.
She went the exact opposite.
She was like he was vengeful,angry.
He always, always he judged me.
I was like, oh my God, I shouldhave asked someone else,
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because what I was looking forwas, well, he was loving and
embracing, it was like a fatherfigure that held me.
So I had to go to a Jewishperson for that, to ask them who
that was.
But that's the thing We've lost, that.
I don't mind losing the BaptistGod, I don't mind losing the
judging vengeful.
You know, I'll get you mylittle wicked witch of the West.
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I don't mind that God beinglost, but I miss the embracing
God.
I miss my Jesus.
Today is Palm Sunday.
Today is the day when Jesusshowed up and they threw the
world at his feet, saying youare the Messiah, you are the
King, you are everything we'veever waited for.
A week later, they wouldcrucify him.
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So it's a crazy world, but Imiss that God.
And coming into this teaching,there were years when I was
really miffed.
It's like well, so where is I?
Know where God is, I know it'sme, but where's the?
And then this week, all of asudden, I was like I get it, it
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is me, but it's more than me,it's bigger.
Ernest Holmes was right there'sa power for good in the universe
greater than you are, and youcan use it because you are it.
You just have not risen to thelevel.
Well, they don't rise till nextSunday, on Easter, but you
haven't risen to the level ofunderstanding that you are all
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of the entire ocean in a drop,as Rumi has told us.
So so the question is, ifmomentum is moving me in giving
me the motion of life, what's myjob in this?
What is my job in this?
So my next slide is a slidefrom a brilliant baseball player
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, ted Williams.
Ted Williams was 19 years inMajor League Baseball left field
for the Boston Red Sox and if Ihad a dime for every time my
parents accused me of being lostin left field, I'd be rich.
So he said, just keep going.
Everything gets better if theyjust keep at it.
Think about that.
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Just keep going.
How often do we stop?
How often do we get derailed?
How often do we let somethingthat's happened in the past stop
us from going forward?
Happened in the past, stop usfrom going forward?
I guess it was walking with you, kevin, wasn't it?
Who was I walking with on thestreet, with the little girl
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with the blonde hair?
We were walking the dog.
We were walking the dog andthere was a guy with a stroller
and his little daughter wasplaying with bubbles outside of
the stroller and from where westood it looked exactly like
Nora.
It had the same haircut she hadat that age and I didn't say
anything, I just kept walkingand Kevin didn't say it until he
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turned and he went.
Are you thinking about Nora?
And that came up.
But it didn't come up to derailme.
It came up to inspire me, toremind me of all the good stuff,
of all the fun times, of allthe beautiful moments in our
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life with our beautiful daughter.
It would have been very easy tolet that moment in my life stop
me and just stop doing what Iwas doing, or stop me from
believing what I believe, andthat didn't happen.
So the question I have for youthis morning is really, what
stops you from going forward,what stops you from keeping at
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it?
What makes you give up?
Because the truth is, momentumnever gives up.
Momentum's always there.
Your life is right there, justwaiting for you to say yes to it
, waiting for you to say take me, take me, bring me along, show
me what, show me what I need toknow, show me what I need to do,
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show me who I need to be.
So the momentum of your life,unfortunately, is dependent on
your reaction to how lifeunfolds around you.
And that list I gave you at thetop of my talk, those things,
yeah, cancer, heart attack,losing a child, all those things
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that are so devastating.
Losing a child, they say, isthe most devastating loss you
will ever, ever experience, andI would like to think that none
of you have to ever experienceit, because I believe that's
probably true, but none of thosethings.
When I look at all of thosethings, none of them are as
important as my reaction tothose things.
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They don't exist on their own.
They're just facts in a verybig world of facts.
Your reaction to it is thiskeep going.
Your reaction is what's thereaction?
What are you going to act uponin the face of whatever's going
on?
So that's what I want you tolook at today because, frankly,
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the momentum doesn't end.
You know that that who you areis going to keep going no matter
what, and it can go in a mostmagnificent way.
You know lizard it's now calleda boy called lizard.
Variety said about the showwhen we opened it.
Nothing as sweepingly it's nowcalled A Boy Called Lizard.
Variety said about the showwhen we opened it.
Nothing as sweepingly beautifulhas been produced on Broadway
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this season.
It got the most magnificentreviews.
The author of the novel flew into see the show and I had
rewritten a lot of it andchanged things like the fact
that Callahan becomes the father, and then I changed it.
Poor Janet who played themother she I changed it right
(19:04):
before we opened.
She went.
I based my whole, my wholecharacter on the fact that he
wasn't the father.
I said, well, he is, now, dealwith it, because I'm a sensitive
director.
And so there he flies and heloved it.
He went.
I wish I had thought to makehim the father and it was just
this beautiful experience.
And then, a year later, it getswhat's called the Distinguished
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Play Award from the Alliance forTheater and Education for my
adaptation of the novel, the oneshow that was picked as the
best adaptation of the year.
And I tell you that, not toboast, because that plaque sits
in my office and it's nothanging up, and I noticed it
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this morning.
I was like you're still justsitting there and the show was
produced by Samuel French.
And I got a check this year forI got a check from Samuel
French for the shows that havebeen produced this year that I
wrote None of them for Lizard,all for Yo-Ho-Ho, a Pirate's
Christmas.
And Kevin and I talked and Isaid why do you suppose no one's
(20:08):
produced a show that was sowell reviewed, that has so many
great parts for actors?
Why do you think?
And we didn't have an answerthen.
But I have an answer now,because I haven't taken action,
because I let something.
Stop me, because I put it down.
There was amazing momentum onthat show.
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I put it down so you can havegreat momentum, and you have
great momentum going on in yourlife right now, whether you know
it or not.
But are you rising to theoccasion and joining the
momentum?
Are you taking the ride or areyou just watching the ride?
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So, to conclude, this morningRick Tamlin sent out a little
thing that Nancy Bergeron wroteDr Nancy Bergeron and she wrote
this thing called Decades of myLife and it was all about her
20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s,her 60s, her 70s, and she gave
little things about.
Each decade stopped at the 70sand she's now 92, going on 21.
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So here's what she wrote, and Iwant to close with this.
She said here are my finalthoughts right now.
Every decade has its purposeand every lesson is a gift.
If I could go back, I'd remindmyself to color outside the
lines, to wear red and purpleand things that don't match.
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I'd be more patient with myselfand others and believe in
myself much more.
So stop apologizing for who youare, knowing.
You are a unique andirreplaceable being created by
life so that it might be morefully expressed by means of you.
You are here on purpose, soembrace each decade of your life
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with gusto, knowing that evermore good is just around the
corner, waiting for you.
Reverend Dr Nancy Bergeron, at92, who does not slow down, in
case you haven't noticed.
So here's what I want to leaveyou with.
Your life has momentum.
Life itself is momentum.
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God is the momentum inside ofyou, observing you, tiffany.
It is the master observer.
Don't care at this point, it'sthe master observer inherent in
every cell in your body, sayingyes, you are here.
You can never not be here.
You do not disappear wheneverybody walks away from you.
You are still vital, vibrant,and anything you want to
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accomplish, you get toaccomplish because the momentum
of life is accomplishing.
Everything everywhere, all atonce.
Life is taking you on a ride.
Everything everywhere, all atonce.
Life is taking you on a ride,but you, you, are the one who
decides which ride it's going tobe.
So my last question to youtoday is where you going, and
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I'll give you a hint it's notbehind you, it's in front of you
, namaste.
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