July 8, 2025 • 28 mins
What if you could actually create the future you desire rather than being carried along by circumstances? This profound exploration challenges us to examine how our present thoughts, beliefs, and reactions are actively shaping tomorrow's reality.
We begin by examining the fundamental principles that govern our existence: we live in an ever-evolving field of creative energy where everything is connected, our beliefs shape our experiences, and literally everything is possible. These aren't just comforting spiritual platitudes—they're practical frameworks for transforming your life.
The pivotal question that frames this journey is deceptively simple: What does your future look like? If you can't answer this clearly, you're likely not creating your future intentionally. As Mahatma Gandhi wisely observed, "The future depends on what we do in the present." Every thought, belief, and reaction in this moment is crafting your tomorrow. Perhaps most liberating is the realization that your future has absolutely nothing to do with your past—unless you're constantly recycling those old stories and patterns.
The science behind this approach is fascinating. Your brain doesn't actually distinguish between past, present, or future experiences. When you vividly imagine your desired future, your neural pathways begin forming as if that reality is already present. This is why spending just 10-15 minutes daily "futurizing"—fully embodying the feelings, sights, and experiences of your desired future—can create remarkable shifts in your present reality.
Most people identify themselves through external factors—their body, history, accomplishments—rather than who they might become. Shakespeare captured this beautifully: "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." The invitation is to step into the expanded version of yourself that exists in potential.
FUN—Future Understood Now—offers a powerful framework for transformation. Rather than fighting against limiting beliefs, simply step into the beliefs you want. If you believe life is hard, leave that behind and embrace the truth that life is pure potential and infinite possibility. Your future can look exactly how you want it to look, but you must decide with clarity and live from that decision every day.
Ready to transform your life? Join us in exploring how to shape your reality through the power of conscious creation and future visualization. Your future is waiting for you to create it!
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Dr. James Mellon (00:00):
We started the service today with best day,
right?
What was that called that song?
Best day ever?
No, what's the first one?
That's this one, no, the firstone.
This beautiful day, right,let's make it a beautiful day.
So we started by saying let'smake it a beautiful day, right,
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this is going to be the best dayof my life, right?
So that seems like a lot ofinstruction to us and something
that we have to live up to.
This idea of you know, living upto this, today's going to be a
beautiful day and it's going tobe the best day of my life.
That's a lot, isn't it?
This is the best day of yourlife.
Think about all the best daysof your life thus far.
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But what if every day wasconsidered the best day of your
life?
What if that's how you startedyour day?
So why can we say thatsomething's going to be the best
day of our life?
Why do we get to say that?
Because most people actuallydon't say that.
They actually wait to see howthe day went, don't you?
Mostly, you just wait to seehow's the day going.
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How's it going, how am I doing?
And that's how we live ourlives, in a kind of reactive
mode of paying attention towhat's going on.
We make plans and we do things,but do we really start our day
by saying this is going to bethe best day of my life?
Why can we do that?
Why can we do that?
Because otherwise it's justhopes and wishes.
But we are about more than justhopes and wishes.
(01:30):
So let me go, do I have this?
Yes, a little small, but I canread it for you.
So I'm going to talk to youabout what we believe.
Eric did this last week withernest holmes.
Uh, his writing in the scienceof mind, what we believe and all
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of that makes sense.
Makes great sense in 1927 andit makes great sense even as he
moved into the 1930s and 40s andeven the 50s.
But here we are.
In what year are we 2025.
So this says here we live in anever-evolving field of creative
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energy.
Actually, this is an eye testfor you all.
Yes, cover the left eye, please, and then see if you can read
this.
So we live in an ever-evolvingfield of creative energy.
Everybody good with that.
So we actually get and this iswhat we teach here.
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We get that we are vibration,we are energy and we live in
this field of energy.
We are this field of energy.
We don't just live in it, butwe are this field of energy.
Okay, and then there See howthat this is like an eye test.
Now you go down.
This says everything isconnected in this field of
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infinite possibility, potential.
Everything I can't even read it.
Everything is connected in thisfield of infinite potential.
Everything, I can't even readit.
Everything is connected in thisfield of infinite potential.
Okay, everything is connected.
So that means there's nothingseparate from you.
Do I want to go there?
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I kind of do so.
We just made it through a weekof a big, beautiful bill that
got passed that has justseparated the country even
further, created even a biggerchasm in this world that we're
living in, and the world looksat us and really is confused, I
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think.
And yet what I just said waseverything is connected in this
field of infinite potential.
So it's so easy for me to thinkthat I have nothing to do with
what they did, but I do Becauseeverything is connected in this
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field of pure potential.
We all are connected.
So somehow all of us broughtourselves to this moment in time
.
Now I get it.
Probably a lot of you arethinking to yourself.
I'm not going to take blame forthat, but you know what?
We need to take responsibilityfor the world we live in,
because if we don't, we're notgoing to be able to change it.
We're just going to keep livingas victims to what other people
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do, perhaps, and that's notwhat we teach here.
So I'm talking about what weabsolutely teach that we live in
a field of pure vibration, pureenergy, pure love, and that
it's all connected.
What one does?
It ripples through and vibratesthrough the entire prism of
life.
Everybody good with that.
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So far, good Now.
It's interesting.
You're all good with it.
Theoretically, it's not as easyto live, is it?
It's not as easy to put intopractice, which is really why
you're sitting here today.
And if it's not, it actually isbecause you're really here to
learn how to use this stuff, toknow why it changes your life,
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why it supports your life, whyit grounds you in this teaching.
So the last one here, not thelast one Our beliefs and choices
shape our life experiences.
Our beliefs and choices shapeour life experiences.
Bless you.
Do you believe that our beliefsand choices shape our life
experiences?
Bless you.
Do you believe that?
So what you believe shapes theexperience you're going to have
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of life.
So, whatever you believe aboutwhat's going on in the world,
you know Joselito just sharedthat he believes the world is a
friendly place.
So I meet friendly peopleeverywhere I go.
That energy, that vibrationlets him meet friendly people
everywhere he goes.
That energy, that vibrationlets him meet friendly people
everywhere he goes.
And if he met someone whowasn't friendly, that person's
guard would probably be downbecause they wouldn't know what
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to do with this energy of guywith snot coming out of his nose
and all Right.
So those beliefs that you havethey are even about what went on
this week are shaping yourexperience of what's going
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forward, of where you're aboutto go.
This is what we teach, these,these are what we hold as our
true principles.
And then the last thing, whichis really the most important one
, and this is even bigger toread everything is possible.
Now, do you believe that?
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Okay, so everything is possible, no matter what.
There is nothing that isdefinite other than the fact
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that we live in this field ofpure creative energy.
That's it, that's the onlything we need to hold on to, and
that I am in the creative spotin my life, no matter what.
So this is good news, isn't it?
This is the good news that weteach every Sunday.
And, by the way, while I'm onit, I would just like to give it
up for Dr Eric doing such abeautiful service last week.
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And how about his partnersinging?
I was like you know, you'restill not going to dethrone me.
And Kevin, I was like so you'rebringing your partner to sing
and then you're going to talkafter him?
I've seen that before.
Yeah, yes, so anyway, you allhave the premise right what we
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believe.
Okay, your beliefs are what'schanging everything in your life
, and not only that.
Your beliefs are changingeverything in life itself, in
your life, and not only that.
Your beliefs are changingeverything in life itself.
Never think that your onelittle being doesn't have a
profound, a profound impact onlife itself, because it does.
So the title of my talk todayand the first question I have
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for you is this what does yourfuture look like?
So I want you to think about itfor a minute.
What does your future look like?
Now?
You may say to me I don't know.
I don't know what the future isgoing to look like, and I'm
going to say back to you well,you damn well better, because if
you don't know what your futurelooks like, then you're not
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creating it.
You're not creating the futureyou're about to live, you're
just kind of rolling along withwhatever's taking you along.
So Mahatma Gandhi said this thefuture depends on what we do in
the present.
So right now, as you sit heretoday, you are futurizing your
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life.
You are believing what youbelieve, thinking what you think
and, more importantly, you'rereacting the way you react.
And why do you think you reactthe way you act?
For a lot of reasons, but whatyou're doing today, the
reactions, the beliefs,everything that's going on in
your mind, in your heart, iscreating tomorrow.
So everything that you aredoing in this particular moment
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is bringing forth whatever thisfuture is going to be.
So the future is, muhammadgandhi says depends on what you
do in the present, what you doright now, right here.
Your future has nothing to do,believe it or not, with the past
.
Your future has nothing to dowith the past.
I would think some of you wouldfind that really helpful, right
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?
It has nothing to do withwhat's happened up to this point
, unless all you're thinkingabout is the past, as we talked
about weeks ago.
Unless 95% of your thinking isbased on what you've been
thinking this whole time.
Our job is to get out of theway and make sure that we don't
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keep those patterns going.
So Thomas Jefferson a little4th of July quote said this I
like the dreams of the futurebetter than the history of the
past.
How many of you are still stuckwith your past history?
How many of you are stilltelling the same stories over
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and over again, like you starredin West Side Story on Broadway?
I mean really, if you don'tknow that by now, jesus, but you
know, it's really helped me alot.
I've reframed that wholeexperience and it's a very
different thing to me than ithas been through most of my
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ministry.
To be honest, I've used it alot.
I don't need to tell you that.
But how much of your history isstill creative?
That's the big thing.
How much of your past is stillcreating your future?
That's something to reallythink about.
Okay, the next quote is byBobby Kennedy.
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The future is not a gift, it isan achievement.
So are you willing to do thework to create the future that
you want?
The first question I asked youis what does your future look
like.
What do you want it to looklike?
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What do you want your future tolook like?
I mean, this is not justplaytime, this is science.
Your brain does not know thedifference between future, past
or present.
If you go back to your bullstuff from the past, your brain
doesn't know that you're notbeing dumped again.
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It just thinks you're beingdumped in this present moment
because you're still living whenyou were 16 and some boy dumped
you.
Obviously, this is not my story, it's someone else out here,
right so?
But your brain doesn't know thedifference.
Your soul doesn't know thedifference.
Your energy, your body, doesn'tknow the difference, which
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means, if I'm going to spendmost of my time back here
thinking about, well, thishappened, this happened, I can't
do this.
And if I'm going to make mydecisions based on all of that,
I'm just same old, same oldingmyself again.
Or I could come over here andstart informing my brain what it
feels like, what it looks liketo live in the life I want to
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live in.
My brain, again, doesn't knowthe difference.
My body doesn't know thedifference.
So recently I had somethingreally important to do and I
woke up with a backache.
Not a backache.
I woke up.
I must have slept on a funny,but I woke up and my back was
like, like, like this, like youcan't really stand.
I was like, oh God, and I had areally important thing to do
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that day and I decided that theimportant thing I had to do that
day was way more important thanhow I felt.
So I just took all of myattention and went to.
I went to the computer and Iwas working on something that I
had to do that day.
When I went to bed that night Icouldn't believe that I had
completely forgotten that myback was out in the morning,
because it wasn't by the end ofthe day In fact it wasn't even
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about an hour later because mymind wasn't there.
My mind went somewhere else andit was an exciting thing that I
was doing that day and my bodywas more excited about what I
was doing that day than the factthat I'd thrown my back out
sleeping or somehow.
That's how powerful your mindis.
Where are you going to put it?
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It's not the future is not agift.
It's an achievement of whatyou're doing with your mind
today, today, t-a-d-a-y.
Today, today.
So Shakespeare gets our lastquote in this little series.
We know what we are, but weknow not what we may be.
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So this I am God thing, it'sfabulous, it's great, I love it.
Everybody seems to be rallyingaround it these days much better
.
I hear it a lot of places now,but what does it mean?
Do you know what you are?
Do you know who you are?
Because I love this.
We know what we are, but knownot what we may be.
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The truth is, most people knowthemselves based on the relative
world.
Most people know themselves ina Newtonian fashion.
It's on the things we see,touch.
I know myself, on the body Ihave.
I know myself on the sex, thegender I am, the sexuality I
have.
I know myself on my history, mypast, what I've done, I can
tell you.
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And when you ask people, whoare they you know, tell me about
yourself.
They tell you everythingthey've done right.
They tell you all of theiraccomplishments, they tell you
some of their issues of.
But that's not who you are andthat's what Shakespeare is
getting across here.
We know what we are because weknow it based on all of this
stuff, but we know not what wemay be, because we're not
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spending enough time in the whatwe may be section of our minds.
We are spending way too muchtime regurgitating the past and
reacting to the present.
Can you stand in the presentmoment and know yourself as the
future self and take yourselfaway from all of this?
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That's the question, right?
So I'm here today to talk toyou about who you are and what
you may be because of who youare.
So our theme this month is fun,but my version of fun is going
to be a little different.
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Everybody's version of fun is alittle different, but I have a
different concept for fun thismonth for us all to consider.
Here.
It is Fun.
Future understood now.
So I want you to think aboutthis.
And now the word understood forme really means belief.
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Can I believe it?
Can I believe the future that Iam knowing in this present
moment?
Can I absolutely believe it?
I understand it and I know weall understand a lot, but is the
belief, the solid belief,holding that understanding in
place, or is it just hope andambition and dreaming what the
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future might be, could be?
So I want to tell you I've beendoing a lot of futurizing every
day.
Part of quantum vitality is tospend at least 10 to 15 minutes
a day in the future of your life, planning it, deciding it,
creating it right, using the 40Hertz music perhaps, which is
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what I use to just blockeverything out and sit in this
future.
Me and my body feels it, mymind feels it, my heart feels it
.
I'm joyful, I'm happy.
I have so much fun, so manythings happening.
I made a commitment that Ireally wanted to get back into
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directing and in the theater andI want to do more of that
creative stuff.
Right, maybe a week to 10 daysgo by and I'm offered a brand
new play that I love to directat the Colony play that I love
to direct at the Colony.
I'm given a great budget and abudget that allows me to go
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after actors that I really wantto work with, and we're in
negotiation right now with threeactors that are just amazing
actors that you'll know when weannounce them.
Why did that happen?
Because my future self alreadyfelt it.
I've already spent the time inthe future directing this play
Not that play, but a play.
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The experience of beingcreative again, the experience
of opening night, the experienceof tech week, putting the set
together with the lights and thesound, getting all the actors.
I was living there.
I went to see your play and Iwas so excited by what you did,
pavel Right.
So of course, I'm going to getoffered something out of nowhere
, truly out of nowhere.
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So that's what I'm asking youto look at.
So Future understood.
Now Fun.
It is so much more fun to be inthe future that I am creating
than to be reliving the past orto be looking at the past for
ways to maybe heal myself orcorrect issues.
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You know what's funny aboutthese issues?
That back I had.
It went away because I wasfocusing on this, not because I
was focusing on my back.
And I'm not saying that itisn't important at times to pay
attention to what's gone on orwhat's going on.
I'm very much about what'sreally happening here, but once
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it's happened, get over it,blanche, move on.
Blanche from Golden Girls, ofcourse.
So a couple questions for you.
Why do you think the thoughts?
You think that could be a song,couldn't it?
Why do you think the thoughtsyou think?
Why do you think the thoughtsyou think?
That's number one.
Two, why do you react the wayyou do, tiffany?
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Why do you react to things theway you do?
Don't me, just do it foryourself.
Why do you feel the way you do,carol?
Why do you feel the way you doso?
Why do you think the things youthink?
Why do you react the way you do?
Why do you feel the way youfeel?
And there's only a one-wordanswer to all of it, and it is
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thank you.
What did you say?
Fun?
You said fun Because of fun, noBeliefs, because you believe
what you believe.
But here's the interestingthing how about futurizing your
beliefs into more like his?
I'll have what he's havingRight.
Futurize yourself into a worldwhere everything goes your way.
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Futurize yourself into a worldwhere you're in a job you love
and that fulfills you and thatyou can't wait to get up every
day to do it.
Futurize yourself into arelationship that is full and
fun and passionate and intimateand honest.
Futurize yourself there asopposed to coming back here and
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wishing you had it, because,frankly, I think that's what we
do most of the time.
We're here, hoping and wishingand praying, right.
So this quote by William Jamesit's a little long.
The world we see that seems soinsane.
I thought it was a great quotefor this week.
The world we see that seems soinsane is the result of a belief
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system that is not working.
To perceive the worlddifferently, we must be willing
to change our belief system.
Let the past slip away, expandour sense of now and dissolve
the fear in our minds.
William James, the father ofnew thought this was like a
hundred years ago.
He wrote this and it's soapplicable to this particular
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moment in time.
Do you know?
Every generation is in a worldthat's in chaos.
Every generation has been.
Everybody's had a world that'schaos and they're always like
it's the worst it's ever been.
Everybody's had a world that'schaos and they're always like
it's the worst it's ever been.
It's never going to, you know.
So we're in a world with chaos.
Right now, it seems to be howthe world works, but are you in
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chaos?
That's the question.
So, second line there toperceive the world differently,
we must be willing to change ourbelief system.
I've been teaching this now foralmost 25 years.
Mental muscle is all aboutbeliefs and changing your
beliefs, but I am more than everconvinced to me that the way
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for me to change my beliefs isto step into the beliefs I want.
I can't just keep fightingthese down because it doesn't
work, because what I focus onexpands and what I put my
attention on grows, and thereare things I still want to be
done with in my life.
But if I come over here andlive here, they don't have a
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place here.
I'm not taking that with mewhen I move.
It's done.
So.
Futurizing, giving yourselfpermission to change your belief
system by picking up the oneyou want.
If you think life is hard, getrid of that one, leave it back.
Go over here where life is easy.
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Life is pure potential.
Life is nothing more thanendless possibility, which, by
the way, is the truth, thespiritual, scientific truth.
That's the truth.
This is not the truth.
This is the relative world youlive in that you've proven to
yourself that the world isdifficult and I can prove it.
Anything you give me that's bador wrong, I could probably
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prove in the world of form, butanything that really matters and
that you really want is overhere in this future world of
pure potential.
So Byron Katie is not someonethat I quote often, but this I
liked.
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A thought is harmless unless webelieve it.
It's not our thoughts, but ourattachments to our thoughts that
cause us suffering.
Attaching to a thought meansbelieving that it's true without
inquiries.
A belief is a thought thatwe've been attaching to often
for years.
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I always say your thoughts comefrom your beliefs, and that's
true, but a lot of your beliefsare created by the thoughts that
had beliefs back of them tobegin with.
Joe, get that, yeah.
So I say your beliefs createyour thoughts.
But then a lot of the thoughtsbacked by beliefs create new
beliefs, because you get moreproof.
The world's a difficult place,you know.
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People are always out to get us.
People are selfish and wantonly for themselves.
I could prove that this weekeasily.
But is that really what's goingon?
Or is that just this Newtonianworld of effects that people are
generating in their lives?
Because it's not the truth, andif I'm going to perpetuate this
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, I'm going to keep creating it.
So, as she says here, it's timefor us to have a big, deep
inquiry of our lives.
How much of this are we willingto keep living and how much of
this are we willing to put ourinquiry into?
What would it be like?
What would it be like to?
What would it be like to dot,dot, dot.
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You figure out what's yours.
I know what mine is.
What will it be like to live it, feel it, be willing to feel it
.
So this month, I want you touse your time living in the
future as best you can.
Okay, living in your futuredesires.
Now here's the thing You'regoing to need to know.
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The answer to that firstquestion, right?
Which I think is the next onewhat does your future look like?
You need to know what thatlooks like, because what I don't
want you to do is to justdisappear into this field of.
That would be fun.
Oh, that might be nice.
Oh, that could be fun.
That could be, because,basically, you're just going to
come back to the same old, sameold what do you want?
What do you really, reallytruly want?
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So when I ask you, what doesyour future look like, I
actually have a very simpleanswer to that Whatever you want
it to look like.
What, if that's the answer,what does your future look like?
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Whatever you want it to looklike?
But you have to decide what youwant it to look like and then
live it.
Live it.
That's what we're doing here.
You know to come alive in 25.
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Live it, be the life of it, bewilling to know who you are, be
willing to remember what weteach here, be willing to be
that energy, that vast field ofpure energy and possibility and
potential.
Be willing to live from thatmindset, no matter what.
No is an appropriate answer.
When something comes along thatdoes not fit your future, and
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it doesn't matter who it is orwhere it's coming from, no is an
appropriate answer.
It doesn't have to be a mean no, an angry no, just a.
That no longer works for me.
It is time for you to decidewhere you want to be, who you
want to be, where you want to go, what you want to accomplish.
Live there and don't go back,because there's nothing to go
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back to.
None of that is real.
The only thing that's real isthis your heart, your mind, your
ability to create the life youwant to create.
So have at it, namaste.
We started the service today with best day,
right?
What was that called that song?
Best day ever?
No, what's the first one?
That's this one, no, the firstone.
This beautiful day, right,let's make it a beautiful day.
So we started by saying let'smake it a beautiful day, right,
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this is going to be the best dayof my life, right?
So that seems like a lot ofinstruction to us and something
that we have to live up to.
This idea of you know, living upto this, today's going to be a
beautiful day and it's going tobe the best day of my life.
That's a lot, isn't it?
This is the best day of yourlife.
Think about all the best daysof your life thus far.
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But what if every day wasconsidered the best day of your
life?
What if that's how you startedyour day?
So why can we say thatsomething's going to be the best
day of our life?
Why do we get to say that?
Because most people actuallydon't say that.
They actually wait to see howthe day went, don't you?
Mostly, you just wait to seehow's the day going.
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How's it going, how am I doing?
And that's how we live ourlives, in a kind of reactive
mode of paying attention towhat's going on.
We make plans and we do things,but do we really start our day
by saying this is going to bethe best day of my life?
Why can we do that?
Why can we do that?
Because otherwise it's justhopes and wishes.
But we are about more than justhopes and wishes.
(01:30):
So let me go, do I have this?
Yes, a little small, but I canread it for you.
So I'm going to talk to youabout what we believe.
Eric did this last week withernest holmes.
Uh, his writing in the scienceof mind, what we believe and all
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of that makes sense.
Makes great sense in 1927 andit makes great sense even as he
moved into the 1930s and 40s andeven the 50s.
But here we are.
In what year are we 2025.
So this says here we live in anever-evolving field of creative
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energy.
Actually, this is an eye testfor you all.
Yes, cover the left eye, please, and then see if you can read
this.
So we live in an ever-evolvingfield of creative energy.
Everybody good with that.
So we actually get and this iswhat we teach here.
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We get that we are vibration,we are energy and we live in
this field of energy.
We are this field of energy.
We don't just live in it, butwe are this field of energy.
Okay, and then there See howthat this is like an eye test.
Now you go down.
This says everything isconnected in this field of
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infinite possibility, potential.
Everything I can't even read it.
Everything is connected in thisfield of infinite potential.
Everything, I can't even readit.
Everything is connected in thisfield of infinite potential.
Okay, everything is connected.
So that means there's nothingseparate from you.
Do I want to go there?
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I kind of do so.
We just made it through a weekof a big, beautiful bill that
got passed that has justseparated the country even
further, created even a biggerchasm in this world that we're
living in, and the world looksat us and really is confused, I
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think.
And yet what I just said waseverything is connected in this
field of infinite potential.
So it's so easy for me to thinkthat I have nothing to do with
what they did, but I do Becauseeverything is connected in this
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field of pure potential.
We all are connected.
So somehow all of us broughtourselves to this moment in time
.
Now I get it.
Probably a lot of you arethinking to yourself.
I'm not going to take blame forthat, but you know what?
We need to take responsibilityfor the world we live in,
because if we don't, we're notgoing to be able to change it.
We're just going to keep livingas victims to what other people
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do, perhaps, and that's notwhat we teach here.
So I'm talking about what weabsolutely teach that we live in
a field of pure vibration, pureenergy, pure love, and that
it's all connected.
What one does?
It ripples through and vibratesthrough the entire prism of
life.
Everybody good with that.
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So far, good Now.
It's interesting.
You're all good with it.
Theoretically, it's not as easyto live, is it?
It's not as easy to put intopractice, which is really why
you're sitting here today.
And if it's not, it actually isbecause you're really here to
learn how to use this stuff, toknow why it changes your life,
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why it supports your life, whyit grounds you in this teaching.
So the last one here, not thelast one Our beliefs and choices
shape our life experiences.
Our beliefs and choices shapeour life experiences.
Bless you.
Do you believe that our beliefsand choices shape our life
experiences?
Bless you.
Do you believe that?
So what you believe shapes theexperience you're going to have
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of life.
So, whatever you believe aboutwhat's going on in the world,
you know Joselito just sharedthat he believes the world is a
friendly place.
So I meet friendly peopleeverywhere I go.
That energy, that vibrationlets him meet friendly people
everywhere he goes.
That energy, that vibrationlets him meet friendly people
everywhere he goes.
And if he met someone whowasn't friendly, that person's
guard would probably be downbecause they wouldn't know what
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to do with this energy of guywith snot coming out of his nose
and all Right.
So those beliefs that you havethey are even about what went on
this week are shaping yourexperience of what's going
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forward, of where you're aboutto go.
This is what we teach, these,these are what we hold as our
true principles.
And then the last thing, whichis really the most important one
, and this is even bigger toread everything is possible.
Now, do you believe that?
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Okay, so everything is possible, no matter what.
There is nothing that isdefinite other than the fact
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that we live in this field ofpure creative energy.
That's it, that's the onlything we need to hold on to, and
that I am in the creative spotin my life, no matter what.
So this is good news, isn't it?
This is the good news that weteach every Sunday.
And, by the way, while I'm onit, I would just like to give it
up for Dr Eric doing such abeautiful service last week.
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And how about his partnersinging?
I was like you know, you'restill not going to dethrone me.
And Kevin, I was like so you'rebringing your partner to sing
and then you're going to talkafter him?
I've seen that before.
Yeah, yes, so anyway, you allhave the premise right what we
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believe.
Okay, your beliefs are what'schanging everything in your life
, and not only that.
Your beliefs are changingeverything in life itself, in
your life, and not only that.
Your beliefs are changingeverything in life itself.
Never think that your onelittle being doesn't have a
profound, a profound impact onlife itself, because it does.
So the title of my talk todayand the first question I have
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for you is this what does yourfuture look like?
So I want you to think about itfor a minute.
What does your future look like?
Now?
You may say to me I don't know.
I don't know what the future isgoing to look like, and I'm
going to say back to you well,you damn well better, because if
you don't know what your futurelooks like, then you're not
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creating it.
You're not creating the futureyou're about to live, you're
just kind of rolling along withwhatever's taking you along.
So Mahatma Gandhi said this thefuture depends on what we do in
the present.
So right now, as you sit heretoday, you are futurizing your
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life.
You are believing what youbelieve, thinking what you think
and, more importantly, you'rereacting the way you react.
And why do you think you reactthe way you act?
For a lot of reasons, but whatyou're doing today, the
reactions, the beliefs,everything that's going on in
your mind, in your heart, iscreating tomorrow.
So everything that you aredoing in this particular moment
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is bringing forth whatever thisfuture is going to be.
So the future is, muhammadgandhi says depends on what you
do in the present, what you doright now, right here.
Your future has nothing to do,believe it or not, with the past
.
Your future has nothing to dowith the past.
I would think some of you wouldfind that really helpful, right
(09:38):
?
It has nothing to do withwhat's happened up to this point
, unless all you're thinkingabout is the past, as we talked
about weeks ago.
Unless 95% of your thinking isbased on what you've been
thinking this whole time.
Our job is to get out of theway and make sure that we don't
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keep those patterns going.
So Thomas Jefferson a little4th of July quote said this I
like the dreams of the futurebetter than the history of the
past.
How many of you are still stuckwith your past history?
How many of you are stilltelling the same stories over
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and over again, like you starredin West Side Story on Broadway?
I mean really, if you don'tknow that by now, jesus, but you
know, it's really helped me alot.
I've reframed that wholeexperience and it's a very
different thing to me than ithas been through most of my
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ministry.
To be honest, I've used it alot.
I don't need to tell you that.
But how much of your history isstill creative?
That's the big thing.
How much of your past is stillcreating your future?
That's something to reallythink about.
Okay, the next quote is byBobby Kennedy.
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The future is not a gift, it isan achievement.
So are you willing to do thework to create the future that
you want?
The first question I asked youis what does your future look
like.
What do you want it to looklike?
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What do you want your future tolook like?
I mean, this is not justplaytime, this is science.
Your brain does not know thedifference between future, past
or present.
If you go back to your bullstuff from the past, your brain
doesn't know that you're notbeing dumped again.
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It just thinks you're beingdumped in this present moment
because you're still living whenyou were 16 and some boy dumped
you.
Obviously, this is not my story, it's someone else out here,
right so?
But your brain doesn't know thedifference.
Your soul doesn't know thedifference.
Your energy, your body, doesn'tknow the difference, which
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means, if I'm going to spendmost of my time back here
thinking about, well, thishappened, this happened, I can't
do this.
And if I'm going to make mydecisions based on all of that,
I'm just same old, same oldingmyself again.
Or I could come over here andstart informing my brain what it
feels like, what it looks liketo live in the life I want to
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live in.
My brain, again, doesn't knowthe difference.
My body doesn't know thedifference.
So recently I had somethingreally important to do and I
woke up with a backache.
Not a backache.
I woke up.
I must have slept on a funny,but I woke up and my back was
like, like, like this, like youcan't really stand.
I was like, oh God, and I had areally important thing to do
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that day and I decided that theimportant thing I had to do that
day was way more important thanhow I felt.
So I just took all of myattention and went to.
I went to the computer and Iwas working on something that I
had to do that day.
When I went to bed that night Icouldn't believe that I had
completely forgotten that myback was out in the morning,
because it wasn't by the end ofthe day In fact it wasn't even
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about an hour later because mymind wasn't there.
My mind went somewhere else andit was an exciting thing that I
was doing that day and my bodywas more excited about what I
was doing that day than the factthat I'd thrown my back out
sleeping or somehow.
That's how powerful your mindis.
Where are you going to put it?
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It's not the future is not agift.
It's an achievement of whatyou're doing with your mind
today, today, t-a-d-a-y.
Today, today.
So Shakespeare gets our lastquote in this little series.
We know what we are, but weknow not what we may be.
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So this I am God thing, it'sfabulous, it's great, I love it.
Everybody seems to be rallyingaround it these days much better
.
I hear it a lot of places now,but what does it mean?
Do you know what you are?
Do you know who you are?
Because I love this.
We know what we are, but knownot what we may be.
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The truth is, most people knowthemselves based on the relative
world.
Most people know themselves ina Newtonian fashion.
It's on the things we see,touch.
I know myself, on the body Ihave.
I know myself on the sex, thegender I am, the sexuality I
have.
I know myself on my history, mypast, what I've done, I can
tell you.
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And when you ask people, whoare they you know, tell me about
yourself.
They tell you everythingthey've done right.
They tell you all of theiraccomplishments, they tell you
some of their issues of.
But that's not who you are andthat's what Shakespeare is
getting across here.
We know what we are because weknow it based on all of this
stuff, but we know not what wemay be, because we're not
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spending enough time in the whatwe may be section of our minds.
We are spending way too muchtime regurgitating the past and
reacting to the present.
Can you stand in the presentmoment and know yourself as the
future self and take yourselfaway from all of this?
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That's the question, right?
So I'm here today to talk toyou about who you are and what
you may be because of who youare.
So our theme this month is fun,but my version of fun is going
to be a little different.
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Everybody's version of fun is alittle different, but I have a
different concept for fun thismonth for us all to consider.
Here.
It is Fun.
Future understood now.
So I want you to think aboutthis.
And now the word understood forme really means belief.
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Can I believe it?
Can I believe the future that Iam knowing in this present
moment?
Can I absolutely believe it?
I understand it and I know weall understand a lot, but is the
belief, the solid belief,holding that understanding in
place, or is it just hope andambition and dreaming what the
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future might be, could be?
So I want to tell you I've beendoing a lot of futurizing every
day.
Part of quantum vitality is tospend at least 10 to 15 minutes
a day in the future of your life, planning it, deciding it,
creating it right, using the 40Hertz music perhaps, which is
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what I use to just blockeverything out and sit in this
future.
Me and my body feels it, mymind feels it, my heart feels it
.
I'm joyful, I'm happy.
I have so much fun, so manythings happening.
I made a commitment that Ireally wanted to get back into
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directing and in the theater andI want to do more of that
creative stuff.
Right, maybe a week to 10 daysgo by and I'm offered a brand
new play that I love to directat the Colony play that I love
to direct at the Colony.
I'm given a great budget and abudget that allows me to go
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after actors that I really wantto work with, and we're in
negotiation right now with threeactors that are just amazing
actors that you'll know when weannounce them.
Why did that happen?
Because my future self alreadyfelt it.
I've already spent the time inthe future directing this play
Not that play, but a play.
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The experience of beingcreative again, the experience
of opening night, the experienceof tech week, putting the set
together with the lights and thesound, getting all the actors.
I was living there.
I went to see your play and Iwas so excited by what you did,
pavel Right.
So of course, I'm going to getoffered something out of nowhere
, truly out of nowhere.
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So that's what I'm asking youto look at.
So Future understood.
Now Fun.
It is so much more fun to be inthe future that I am creating
than to be reliving the past orto be looking at the past for
ways to maybe heal myself orcorrect issues.
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You know what's funny aboutthese issues?
That back I had.
It went away because I wasfocusing on this, not because I
was focusing on my back.
And I'm not saying that itisn't important at times to pay
attention to what's gone on orwhat's going on.
I'm very much about what'sreally happening here, but once
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it's happened, get over it,blanche, move on.
Blanche from Golden Girls, ofcourse.
So a couple questions for you.
Why do you think the thoughts?
You think that could be a song,couldn't it?
Why do you think the thoughtsyou think?
Why do you think the thoughtsyou think?
That's number one.
Two, why do you react the wayyou do, tiffany?
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Why do you react to things theway you do?
Don't me, just do it foryourself.
Why do you feel the way you do,carol?
Why do you feel the way you doso?
Why do you think the things youthink?
Why do you react the way you do?
Why do you feel the way youfeel?
And there's only a one-wordanswer to all of it, and it is
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thank you.
What did you say?
Fun?
You said fun Because of fun, noBeliefs, because you believe
what you believe.
But here's the interestingthing how about futurizing your
beliefs into more like his?
I'll have what he's havingRight.
Futurize yourself into a worldwhere everything goes your way.
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Futurize yourself into a worldwhere you're in a job you love
and that fulfills you and thatyou can't wait to get up every
day to do it.
Futurize yourself into arelationship that is full and
fun and passionate and intimateand honest.
Futurize yourself there asopposed to coming back here and
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wishing you had it, because,frankly, I think that's what we
do most of the time.
We're here, hoping and wishingand praying, right.
So this quote by William Jamesit's a little long.
The world we see that seems soinsane.
I thought it was a great quotefor this week.
The world we see that seems soinsane is the result of a belief
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system that is not working.
To perceive the worlddifferently, we must be willing
to change our belief system.
Let the past slip away, expandour sense of now and dissolve
the fear in our minds.
William James, the father ofnew thought this was like a
hundred years ago.
He wrote this and it's soapplicable to this particular
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moment in time.
Do you know?
Every generation is in a worldthat's in chaos.
Every generation has been.
Everybody's had a world that'schaos and they're always like
it's the worst it's ever been.
Everybody's had a world that'schaos and they're always like
it's the worst it's ever been.
It's never going to, you know.
So we're in a world with chaos.
Right now, it seems to be howthe world works, but are you in
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chaos?
That's the question.
So, second line there toperceive the world differently,
we must be willing to change ourbelief system.
I've been teaching this now foralmost 25 years.
Mental muscle is all aboutbeliefs and changing your
beliefs, but I am more than everconvinced to me that the way
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for me to change my beliefs isto step into the beliefs I want.
I can't just keep fightingthese down because it doesn't
work, because what I focus onexpands and what I put my
attention on grows, and thereare things I still want to be
done with in my life.
But if I come over here andlive here, they don't have a
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place here.
I'm not taking that with mewhen I move.
It's done.
So.
Futurizing, giving yourselfpermission to change your belief
system by picking up the oneyou want.
If you think life is hard, getrid of that one, leave it back.
Go over here where life is easy.
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Life is pure potential.
Life is nothing more thanendless possibility, which, by
the way, is the truth, thespiritual, scientific truth.
That's the truth.
This is not the truth.
This is the relative world youlive in that you've proven to
yourself that the world isdifficult and I can prove it.
Anything you give me that's bador wrong, I could probably
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prove in the world of form, butanything that really matters and
that you really want is overhere in this future world of
pure potential.
So Byron Katie is not someonethat I quote often, but this I
liked.
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A thought is harmless unless webelieve it.
It's not our thoughts, but ourattachments to our thoughts that
cause us suffering.
Attaching to a thought meansbelieving that it's true without
inquiries.
A belief is a thought thatwe've been attaching to often
for years.
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I always say your thoughts comefrom your beliefs, and that's
true, but a lot of your beliefsare created by the thoughts that
had beliefs back of them tobegin with.
Joe, get that, yeah.
So I say your beliefs createyour thoughts.
But then a lot of the thoughtsbacked by beliefs create new
beliefs, because you get moreproof.
The world's a difficult place,you know.
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People are always out to get us.
People are selfish and wantonly for themselves.
I could prove that this weekeasily.
But is that really what's goingon?
Or is that just this Newtonianworld of effects that people are
generating in their lives?
Because it's not the truth, andif I'm going to perpetuate this
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, I'm going to keep creating it.
So, as she says here, it's timefor us to have a big, deep
inquiry of our lives.
How much of this are we willingto keep living and how much of
this are we willing to put ourinquiry into?
What would it be like?
What would it be like to?
What would it be like to dot,dot, dot.
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You figure out what's yours.
I know what mine is.
What will it be like to live it, feel it, be willing to feel it
.
So this month, I want you touse your time living in the
future as best you can.
Okay, living in your futuredesires.
Now here's the thing You'regoing to need to know.
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The answer to that firstquestion, right?
Which I think is the next onewhat does your future look like?
You need to know what thatlooks like, because what I don't
want you to do is to justdisappear into this field of.
That would be fun.
Oh, that might be nice.
Oh, that could be fun.
That could be, because,basically, you're just going to
come back to the same old, sameold what do you want?
What do you really, reallytruly want?
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So when I ask you, what doesyour future look like, I
actually have a very simpleanswer to that Whatever you want
it to look like.
What, if that's the answer,what does your future look like?
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Whatever you want it to looklike?
But you have to decide what youwant it to look like and then
live it.
Live it.
That's what we're doing here.
You know to come alive in 25.
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Live it, be the life of it, bewilling to know who you are, be
willing to remember what weteach here, be willing to be
that energy, that vast field ofpure energy and possibility and
potential.
Be willing to live from thatmindset, no matter what.
No is an appropriate answer.
When something comes along thatdoes not fit your future, and
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it doesn't matter who it is orwhere it's coming from, no is an
appropriate answer.
It doesn't have to be a mean no, an angry no, just a.
That no longer works for me.
It is time for you to decidewhere you want to be, who you
want to be, where you want to go, what you want to accomplish.
Live there and don't go back,because there's nothing to go
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back to.
None of that is real.
The only thing that's real isthis your heart, your mind, your
ability to create the life youwant to create.
So have at it, namaste.
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