Forgiveness

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I'm going to do a very dangerous thing right now. Anybody got a question? What's the role of forgiveness in this mind consciousness and thought? Well, it doesn't matter if it's mind conscious or thought. This is one of the most marvelous things in the world, not for you forgiving somebody else, but for you, because when you don't have forgiveness and you have some horrible thoughts in your head about somebody, you're the one that's suffering.

Believe me, you are. If you want to forgive anybody, you're suffering, because every time you think about them, you start going through all this torment. But once you learn to forgive, you'll find the greatest relief for you. And when you find that great relief for you, then you start to see with clear eyes. You really do, because without forgiveness in your heart, you have a problem. If you go for some therapy and you keep bringing up all those things without forgiveness, you're just hurting yourself over and over again, and innocently, and I say innocently , maybe your therapist sometimes brings these things up and it just makes it worse.

And this is why you have to forgive. And I know if I won't forgive somebody, even for the slightest bit, it really hurts me. It's not worth having. Just learn to forgive, and when you do, you'll see a different world. You'll see that person different wherever you're not going to forgive. It's a magical thing for forgiveness. Now I want you to be careful too. I've read books that say that there's four principles, but there isn't.

There's only three, and those three lie before time, space, and matter. They lie before creation. The gifts that we use to go through life. The second you're born, you're clued into those three principles. Those three principles, along they bring to your life your freedom of thought and your five senses. And those five senses and your freedom of thought and the use of these three principles that guide you through life, but when you're looking for the secret to those three principles, you must go beyond the five senses.

Because you see, you're already there. And that's why I'm so confident because it happened to me that I, in a few seconds, I went from whatever I was, I went inside, I found this innate health, this innate wisdom, and realized that everybody has it. You have it, everybody has it, and this, if I, it can be done to me, God, I'm a Scotsman. If it can harm to your Scotsman, it can harm to anybody.

It can happen to you. It can happen a little bit of a time, or it can happen all at once. But I wouldn't look for it happening all at once, I would just live. And if you find anything this weekend that changes your mind, don't look for more. Don't try, because you can't sink your way into wisdom, because when you think your way into wisdom, your thinking, your intellect, and your intellect is the, the illusion.

It's connected to what you call an ego. Now I hear, I know that a lot of, there's a lot of theories what ego is, and how it works and how it doesn't work, but let me tell you something. You know what the ego really is? It's a delusion. There's no such a thing as ego. Ego is whatever you think it is. Whatever you think your ego is, that's it, because it's all a delusion.

You're coming from a little mind, and the little mind is just your thought system. Whatever you think it is, that's what it is. You know, one of the biggest mistakes is to think that the mind and the brain are the same thing. If you think that way, you will never, never, never, in a million years, find a secret to mental health. The brain is a biological computer, and like any other computer in this world, whatever you put into it is all you can get out.

Now the, the brain, as I'm saying, is a biological computer. Now you go down a radio shack and you buy a computer. You bring it and you put it in your office and you put it on your desk and you sit and look at it, and you turn this switch, it says, "There is a door nail. Nothing happens. It has no life." And you shake it and you turn it up again and it's still no life.

Then you realize, "Oh, it must have a source. It must have a source of power." Then you see this wire and it's got a plug on it. "Oh, I'll plug it into the wall." You do that, then you touch the knob, then it becomes a life. Do you know what makes your brain alive? It's a part of universal mind. That universal mind lies before time, space and matter, and it's automatic.

You don't have to plug in anything. The day you're born, you're in it. You've got this brand new computer, it's empty. You come into this world and you immediately, you come out of the womb, you start experiencing this physical world. Your five cents is kicking. You start to feel and taste and smell and then you're in the arena. You're in this universal arena until the day you die by using your five senses, the three principles and the freedom of thought.

Now the freedom of thought and the freedom of deed is quite different. The freedom of thought, you can think what you want. You could be in jail and still think you're free. The freedom of thought is one of the greatest gifts given. And if you use it properly and you use those principles properly, what happens is, you see, when you're born, your mind is purity. You've got purity of thought, purity of consciousness and purity of mind.

You come into this world, your five senses kick in, then you're in a divine illusion. The second you come into this divine illusion, you start losing the power and the purity of those principles. Now as you wander through life and you start getting negative experiences, you start to lose the purity of those principles. And sometimes you lose it so much, you start to become mentally sick. This is where your doctors come in.

As soon as a person loses too much of this purity of mind conscious and thought , they become mentally imbalanced. So you doctors come in and you say, "We'll help you." Then you try and get them back to purity of thought. But the secret is, if you don't know what thought really is, it's all guesswork . Learn what the principles are. Once you learn those principles, you, physician heal thyself, you become mentally very, very secure.

You know the way. Somebody comes in and instead of seeing a sick person, you see past the sickness because you know they've got the same wisdom as you have. And we all have this wisdom to different degrees depending on the experience of our life. If you have, you've picked up experiences of anger, desire, hate, jealousy, envy, this is what will come out of you, but if you see that all those feelings, all their own feelings, if you can see that those feelings are only created from thought, if you can honestly see that, then those feelings disappear and then their place comes love.

Nice feelings, hope, joy, helpfulness, you want to help people. All changes just because you change your thoughts. You know what thought is? It's a magic paintbrush. It's a divine paintbrush and you take your thoughts and you paint the picture of this world you live in by your thoughts. Now whatever you paint is what you will see because our thoughts create our reality. The world we live in is created by thought, all the mess this world is in today is created from human thought.

If you can teach the world that the thoughts are creating the reality, the world that we live in today will change. Never go back in the past because the past is an illusion. It no longer exists and this is where forgiveness comes in again because you have to forgive those who harm you in the past. I know when I was brought up, I was adopted. I didn't like what I lived, I didn't like my home and I could sit here and tell you a whole bunch of horrible stories and it would be a therapist's dream to hear it.

If you said, "What else happened?" "Well, I'll tell you this and I'll tell you that." They say, "Wow, you're really in trouble, man." Once I had this enlightening experience, I looked back with absolute clarity and all I saw was two people who brought me up in total innocence. How I came into the world was brought on by total innocence, everything was a total innocence. If I could go back now and see my parents, I would be so full of love for those people and material of what happened in the past because you would see the innocence and this is where therapy has to look, it has to change, it has to go the other way.

Instead of going back, it has to find that the client's thoughts are creating the reality. It's so simple. I've been told it can't be that simple. You're insulting my intelligence, it's not that simple and then they tell you all the horrible stories and I'll say, "Well, what horrible stories?" Well, I remember one thirty years ago and to go back thirty years. What's thirty years? It's all an illusion in time, it's no longer real, there is only one real thing in this earth and that's now.

And as I said this morning, this is why all those wise people have always talked about the importance of the know. They didn't see that just for fun but innocently, in the past, somebody has brought up the idea to go back in the past and blame somebody. We don't care where you blame, we blame somebody, we don't care that your mother, your father, your granddad, your cousin, the kid down the block, it's going to blame somebody.

But that is only, that was then, then is an illusion in time. This is a greatest secret that psychology could ever, ever, ever have, is to bring the clients to the know and to bring them to the know they've got to be taught that the past no longer exists and they've taken their paint brush and they're painting all pictures over and over and over again, these thoughts, they're painting over and over and over again until it's driving them nuts, driving them crazy because there's no forgiveness in that.

Now you say to them, "Look, if you take your thoughts and bring it to the know, you could paint any picture you want, you could paint, you could start a new life." So please, here's the paint brush, here's the palette and the palette is full of beautiful paint, just paint whatever you want, then they start painting the know and the know they can paint anything they want, they start life all over again, it's a new life, it's a second chance, it's so simple, it's so simple, it's the most difficult thing in the world to believe because your thoughts will not believe it, it's your thoughts that are stopping you from seeing it, nothing else, it's a world of thought.

We create our own reality, whether you like that or not, maybe you're angry at me saying this, but you create your own reality. What you see and how you react to what you see is your reality, you know during the second war war there was a lot of people in concentration camps and it was terrible, horrible, horrible existence and yet some people still kept their happiness and their love and their heart without hate and other ones they went under.

Now they're in the same camp but one kept their sanity and one didn't because they painted different pictures every day. There is nothing more powerful than thought and as I said before I've read a book that says you've now discovered the fourth one and the fourth one is emotions, tell me something, how can you possibly have an emotion without using the principles? The principles can never change because they lie before, time, space and matter and this is why I'm saying they're spiritual, that's the only reason I'm saying they're spiritual because they have no form and if they have no form how can they change?

It's impossible. Now just lately I have, there's one woman, she's discovered eight, probably 10 years from now there'll be 25 unless we're smart now. In the medical field if you go way way back you'd bore a hole in your head to let evil spirits out. Not that long ago really in time, there was bloodlet. See what I mean? I rest my case. Well when I first heard about this it was roughly 300 theories, no it's up to 500 but they haven't thrown anywhere away.

You have to throw away, bring in the new and in its place will come this beautiful thing created from the three principles, created from wisdom that lies within and it will change the field forever. Then when this wisdom comes the other ones will just vanish, the vanish like mist in the morning sun and it has to be that way. I know I can get in trouble for saying this but I have no other choice.

I honestly have no other choice. I'm trying to be honest, I'm trying to be helpful. Nothing in this world I'd give my life if I could change this world, if I could change doctors that were going to help children and people that are suffering all over the world it would be worth it. I've devoted my entire life to this and when I see these doctors change and I hear the miracles that are happening in their clinics, it's worth it, it's worth it.