Get It for Yourself First

Don’t you see how simple it is? From these three things all religions are created and they say the answer is love and it is for the simple reason, that pure love, pure aloha, is pure understanding. With pure understanding and pure love, you have no hate, you have no anger, you have just pure understanding. With that pure understanding you’re not caught in the illusion of life from the past. It’s the past that is the problem and the past is now an illusion. If anybody can tell me how the past is realm, I’ll take all back what I’ve said. It no longer is real. All sickness of the mind is carried through time via thought. The secret of all psychology is manifested by a thought. You see the world is a divine thought. Now a divine thought has nothing to do with you. You’re just part of it because that’s what God is. God created reality from what is pure divine thought. When this reality came into being, we as human beings have what you call a free will and free mind. With this free will and this free mind, you do as you wish, you see as you wish, you think as you wish, and you act as you wish and that’s the problem. It’s attached to what you call an ego, and an ego is an image of self-importance, and what do we do as psychologists and therapists? We boost it up. We actually create sickness instead of taking it away. We boost up the persons ego. That’s the whole Freudian idea. We go in reverse. Do you know how all the biblical and all the wise people in the world have always talked about light? You’ve got to see the light. Well, to see the light you’ve got to reverse otherwise you only see the shadow and the shadow is life itself. You’ve got to turn around and face the light. And to do that, you’ve got to stop looking outside. You’ve got to look inside. You’ve got to look within. That’s what Christ says: look within. All the wise from the beginning of time have said look within and people don’t honestly realise that literally they mean you’ve got to look inside yourself for the answer, because literally you are God in disguise. You’re an illusion. You’re a divine illusion. If you memorise the words of the wise from the past, it won’t do you any good. As a matter fact it’s a trap, because once you memorise what they’re saying, you’ve trapped yourself because what they’re saying, is not what they mean because its unexplainable. That’s why I say to people almost every time I talk, “Don’t listen to what I’m saying.” Well, that’s a weird thing to say. It’s what I’m trying to say and people will say, “Well, why don’t you just say it then?” But I can’t because it can’t be expressed in words. The second truth comes out via the word. It’s no longer truth; it’s an echo of the truth because what you’re looking for is a spiritual insight. What the words are, are only a guide, and if the guide is taking you outside, you’re looking in the wrong direction. If the guide is taking you inside, listen. But don’t listen to the words and there’ll be somebody that a little voice inside you will say, “Aha! Got it.” That’s what you listen to. You don’t listen to me. You don’t listen to anybody. You listen to yourself. Only you have the answer, and when the answer comes from you, the answer that comes from me will be exactly the same, you won’t say there is a little difference. There is no difference. So there’s only one answer. There’s only one God. Any other idea of God is wrong because what God means is total, total in all ways. God is total and any other God made up. [unclear 13:15] in the Hawaiian language and the Hawaiian religion that’s just a demi-god taking you away from it. There’s only one God because God means literally everything. That’s why if anybody ever finds the answer they’re truly looking for they realise that they are god in disguise. See, God I am, but I am not God, if you could understand that, you’d know what it meant. No one person can be God. See, the world as we know it now has been manifested into a form. To find the secret of the form you have to go within and find the secret of formlessness and formlessness is before the creation of form. This formlessness, the Eastern philosophers and a lot of the religions talk about the great nothingness. That’s the same thing. Can you see that? I just get a feeling for it. It’s a feeling. You’ll never understand. You’ll only ever just get a feeling. If you get that positive feeling when you go away that positive feeling is a guide. If you get a bad feeling and you leave cursing and swearing, you’v ke that, but that’s nonsense. It’s the very opposite because that person In that knowing state is so full of love and so full of understanding that’s the safest place to be.

When you should be afraid is you get to those hostile type therapists who are going to go after you. That’s where the danger lies. When I firs realised what I realised that was the first clue I had that it was thought. I had an insight into the marvellous, unbelievable power of thought. Female: What is a miracle? (Best guess) Sydney: A miracle is just the right use of mind. Remember I said mind is God. There’s only one mind. That’s the mastermind and that’s God. Please honestly if there’re any questions, please ask them. It doesn’t matter what it is because they all lead back to the same thing and that’s a clue for you. One of the greatest things I can tell you again when you talk to a patient, talk to the patient as if they have nothing wrong with them and maybe they’ll hear what you’re saying, and when the you walk away they’ll have nothing wrong with them. Talk to them as if they’re sick and they’ll walk away sick. At the same time you realise that they’re going through the Hell and they are sick, but the sickness is an illusion created from thought from the past. The past is an illusion, jump the boundaries of time, go in the now, and here’s where you can help them to find the sanity they’re looking for. Love will always be the answer. I really mean that. Love and true understanding go hand in hand, and you don’t have to understand mentally if you have love in your heart; you just understand. It’s a matter of wisdom versus intellect. Wisdom is a God-given thing. Intellect is a man given thing. If you find wisdom, you get the intellect. Find intellect, it’s not necessarily that you’re going to get wisdom, but wisdom covers both. That’s where you come from inside and look outwardly. Again you jump the boundaries of time. The true now isn’t now, here and now. Otherwise, you know the old cliché. I’ve had people say, “Well, you’ve no other choice but to live in the now because we’re here right now.” That’s not the now the wise speak of. The now the wise speak of time is before the beginning of time. If you go before the beginning of time, you don’t go back. You just realise that back is an illusion and you find now. that make sense does it? It’s not supposed to make sense.

If you walk out of here right now, and you say, “I’ve heard all that before. I know what he’s talking about,” you haven’t got it. To find it, all you have to do is to realise the secret of thought. Once you realise the secret of thought, you’re home. You’re free. All your problems are manifested by a thought, and I know everybody in this room right now could get up and prove to me that isn’t so intellectually. But I’m not interested in intellectually, because I could prove to you that all my problems are not thoughts either, but that would be part of the illusion. You’ve got to break the boundaries of the illusion and realise everything is created literally from the divine thought, and when that divine thought is manifested into form it is called life. Life is a geared and run by intellectual thought. Intellectual thought creates the downfall of humanity. Again it’s the ego. One of the main secrets is just to live life and enjoy it and that’s one of the most difficult things in the world until you realise the simplicity of it. Just live it. Don’t talk it. I never talk about it. I just live it. The only time I talk about it is when I get together with people that want to hear it. Male: When you say the secret of thought, what do you mean by that? Sydney: Well, like I’ve been talking about all day that life is a divine thought and we all work and manifest our lives by our thoughts and its all the secret of thought. If you can honestly say that, if you can see that all mental sickness derives from thought, all ideas are thoughts, all concepts are thoughts, anger derives from thought, love derives from thought. Everything is thought. The whole world is a thought concept. If you can realise the secret is thought, then you’ll realise the secret to mental health. You’ll realise the simplicity of having a beautiful marriage is all created from thought a bad marriage is created from thought. A happier life is created from thought, a sad life is created from thought. That’s why I keep talking about thought, because I know that’s how I found it was via thought. all psychology, the secret of psychology, derives from thought. It works in a marvellous way because once you start to even gradually realise this, your life changes. A lot of your problems start to dissipate and people come up to you and say, “You used to have the same problem as me. What did you do to get no. Mine is real.” Of course it’s real in this reality, but in a greater reality it derives from thought. Male: What is a thought? Sydney: Thought is a spiritual thing, it’s just a spiritual power, but on its own thought has really no power. Thought in itself is completely neutral. It is not until you put your ideas into that thought that that thought gets its power and whatever you put into that thought, whether it be negative or positive it will manifest itself as a fact.

Male: It seems like it’s a process where the formless comes into the form. Sydney: That’s right. That’s all it is. It comes into form when you put your ideas into it and your ideas start going into that thought the moment you’re born. It’s a spiritual conveyor. That’s all it is. That’s what thought is; it’s a spiritual conveyor. There’s nothing in this world stronger than thought. If you can convince your patients of that, that patient’s thoughts change. That’s why they come to you. You’re a doctor and they come to you to try and change their thoughts. If you can change their thoughts, you change their reality. To change their thoughts you can’t explain where they’re right and wrong. You have to explain the secret of thought. Once they realise the power of thought, then that mental sickness, that mental anxiety, and all their hang-ups and all their problems will start to vanish. Simplicity. Gratefulness is an extremely powerful thing, being grateful in life. if you’re not grateful in life or to life, then you have the feeling of ungrateful, and if you’re ungrateful you’ll never be happy, never, because no matter what you’re given or what you’ve got or what you ever will receive, without that feeling of gratefulness, you’ll have nothing. If somebody comes along and says, “Here’s a million dollars,” and you get that million dollars, you’re going to feel really happy for a short while. But because you’re an ungrateful person, the feeling of ungratefulness will come and the million dollars won’t mean a thing. It will just mean that you’re an unhappy millionaire. Remember I said at the beginning of this talk everything comes via feeling? A feeling comes via thought. It’s all connected. You can’t get away from it. Again the secret lies in thought. Male: Do you think thoughts—I’m just trying to think about the relationship between intentions and thoughts. A lot of people don’t think that their thoughts are some intention that they’ve had. It seems to me like there’s almost always got to be some intent in the thought.

Sydney: Well, intent comes from a thought. Everything is thought. No matter what you mention it will be connected to thought. If you talk to me all day, it will all be connected to thought. Poor people are happier than a lot of people that have a lot of wealth. Now that doesn’t mean to say that you can’t have wealth and be happy. Don’t get me wrong there. If somebody came along and gave me a million dollars, believe me that would make me happy. I’d be quite content and quite grateful. Male: What’s the difference between a thought and a feeling? Sydney: A thought as I say is neutral; a feeling is a reaction. It’s a positive reaction from thought. It’s a feeling. You have a bad feeling, but it’s still a reaction from thought. If you can get a good reaction from thought, a good feeling. Remember I said to you, you walk out the door today with a good feeling, as Sam said it’s a good reaction then you’re a way ahead. Whereas if you were a strict Freudian, I guarantee you’d walk out that door with a bad thought. The whole world is a reaction to thought, the entire world. Whatever is in the world today, whatever conditions is in the world today, is a reaction from thought. I’m just trying to prove to you that everything is fact, and that’s the most incredible thing in the world that can happen to anybody is to realise the power of thought. Do you know the old therapies where you’re upfront, you know speak your mind and tell your friend or your spouse or whoever your true feelings? Your true feelings are contaminated. So you go off and you say, “I don’t like you because,” and off you go. That creates a reaction to thought. That creates mental sickness, and that’s still going on. But there’s nothing wrong in doing it honestly. It’s all done in innocence, and as sure as fate, a therapist is not going to do that if he honestly or she honestly knew it was going to do a lot of harm. Male: They all mean well.

Sydney: They all mean well. They all have a good intentions. That’s right, and if you can see that. Male: Chris isn’t so sure about that. Sydney: You know what they say about good intentions? Male: [Bank on their intentions 32:23]. Female: Yeah, [32:25] intentions. Yeah.

Sydney: They say the road to hell was paved with good intentions. You’ve already got what you’re looking for. The only thing is those little hurdles, those thoughts stop you from seeing it, When you discover it you say, “By the grace of God, I’ve found it.” Because it’s the god power within that has the power to take your ego and push it aside and there you are. You’ll see what they call the light. Literally, you’ve seen what you already had before the contamination of thought and there you are. Male: Is that why they say the modern-day version of [unclear 33:35] a little light bulb going on? Sydney: When that light bulb goes on. Same thing. Again, I thank you.