Goodwill

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(applause) You know, for the past 34 years I've been in many, many places seeing medicals happening. The nicest place I've ever been in my life is here. I've been in jails, I've been in halfway houses, I've been in industry, I've been in talking to scientists, physicists, but here I see more happening than any other place. (applause) One time was the whole of life is created from a psychological experience.

But if you see one glimmer of what we're talking about, I guarantee your life will never be the same again. And this is the beauty of it. I can promise you, if you see the slightest bit of this wisdom, it lies in your own self, you will be ahead of most therapists in the world. Because the therapists in the world, they look outside for the answer. They look at the past for the answer. The answer is not there.

The answer lies inside because inside you there's something called wisdom. That is the controlling body that takes you through life, this wisdom. Now this wisdom, what wisdom is, is that God given intelligence before you can terminate it with your mind. And you can't get through to this via your mind, your ego mind. So you have to get silence in your head, and someday you go beyond the word.

You go inside and you find the answer. And that's what's been happening to thousands of people. People have been told they will never be well, they will damage goods. Some of you people have been told that there's no such a thing. That's this something, you shoot and hurry up. There's no such a thing. Everybody can find this with 30 seconds because it lies inside you. And when you see it, you know what it is because your mom is new.

It's the only thing you've forgotten. Because when you came into this world, as a baby, you came into your grand illusion. And that's what life is. It's a grand illusion. It's not real. You only think it's real. And that's what your thought, consciousness and mind comes into the picture. Because when a baby is born, it takes those three principles and it uses them. And it comes in and it's five senses that they work.

When you think what you're seeing is real, it's not. A lot of you people think that your past is your problem. That is not true. I've gone through this, believe me. I had my past, I thought it was deadly for me, it was terrible. Life had played a rotten trick on me, the way I was born, the way it was brought out. And I blamed all this.

The moment I saw what I saw, you know what they see for this? I realized that the past no longer exists. It's only an illusion in time. And you are working from that illusion. And what you have to see is that it's only a thought. When you see that, everything which is rewarding you all your life will vanish. But taking you back into the past will only make it worse.