just putting out
this really strong emotion of,
"wow, I don't really like this feeling",
and it's there,
it's racing towards you.
You know, anti-war movement
creates more war.
The anti-drug movement has
actually created more drugs.
Because we're focusing on
what we don't want - drugs.
People would say, "well shouldn't I
focus upon that, that is true"
And we say, "that is like saying
because someone gave the attention
to something they did not want,
long enough that now it has manifested
I should do it too."
And we say, "we don't really
understand that reasoning."
Mother Teresa was brilliant.
She said, "I will never attend
an anti-war rally,
if you have a peace rally, invite me."
You know, she knew.
She understood the secret.
I mean, look what she
manifested in the world.
So, if you're anti-war,
be pro peace.
If you're anti-hunger, be pro
people having more than enough to eat.
If you anti particular politician,
be pro his opponent.
Often elections are tipped in the favour
of the person that people are really against
because he's getting all the energy
and all the focus.
You wanna focus on what you want
and not what you don't want.
It's OK to notice what you don't want
because that gives you contrast
and you say, "this is what I do want."
But the fact is that the more you
talk what you don't want,
or you talk about how bad it is,
read about all of that all the time and
then say, "oh how terrible it is",
you are creating more of that.
You know, so many times people say to me,
"well James, I have to be informed."
Maybe you have to be informed,
but you don't have to be inundated.
Learn to become still
and to take you attention away
from what you don't want
and all the emotional charge around it,
and place the attention on
what you wish to experience.
I always say when the voice
and the vision on the inside
become more profound
and more clear and loud
then the opinion on the outside
you've mastered your life.
You are not here to try to get the world
to be just as you want it to be,
you are here to create the world
around you that you choose,
while you allow the world
as others choose it to be
to exist also.
One of the questions I get almost all the time
and is probably on somebody's mind right now,
if it's not on yours,
and that's the idea that,
"well, if everybody uses the secret
and they all treat the Universe
like a catalogue,
aren't we gonna run out of stuff?
Won't everybody just make a run for
it and bust the bank?"
What's so beautiful about
the teaching of the great secret
is that there is more than enough
to go around for everyone.
There is a lie, that acts like
a virus within the mind of humanity
and that lie is,
"there's not enough good to go around,
there's lack, and there's limitation
and there's just not enough."
That lie has people living in fear,
greed, stinginess,
and those thoughts of fear, greed,
stinginess and lack
become their experience.
So, the world has taken a nightmare pill.
Now, the truth is there's more
than enough good to go around,
there's more than enough creative ideas,
there's more than enough power,
there's more than enough love,
there's more than enough joy...
All of this begins to come through a mind
that is aware of its own infinite nature.
Every great teacher who's
ever walked the planet has told us
that life was meant to be abundant.
And so, just when we think
that resources are dwindling,
we find new resources to achieve the same things.
And so, even though we say we have lack
it's because we don't open up
our vision and see all what's around us.
You know, when everybody starts to live
from their heart and go for what they want,
they don't go for the same things.
That's the beauty of this.
We don't all want BMWs,
we don't all want the same person,
we don't all want the same experiences,
we don't all want the same clothing,
we don't all want...fill in the blank.
There's