Activating Miraculous Success, Part 2 (transcript)

The treasures ... there are seven of them: Destiny & Meaning, Personality, Image, and Character are the first four. The remaining treasures are Strength, Motivation, and Identity. And, we would suggest, out of these and within these there is a force field – a resonance – of perpetual creativity. When you discover your treasures, the very access to them changes you and lifts you, elevates you to a unique position where you can activate miraculous success. The treasures change you. With the lifting and elevating you can move into a realm or a domain that was otherwise hidden in time and space, in energy and matter -- a world of miraculous success.

And how do you find these treasures? How do you get in touch with them? What is that particular and specific way in which to harness the energy and matter so as to create that force field, that resonance?

We suggest that it is by experiencing and exploring the depth and intensity of your emotions. In that sensing, it is through the exploration of your very own emotions with such depth and intensity that you will create the field of force that will lift you to that position, unique and powerful, to access the treasures.

So, why don't you? You have emotions, you feel them, you live them, your life is guided, directed by them -- right into the wall, or right through the openings. Why are you afraid? Why won't you deal with the depth and the intensity of your emotion? Well, there are numbers of reasons.

We would suggest and we have likened your emotions to a pool: fluid, water, emotions. At the deep end are these treasure chests, all right down at the bottom. And you are up here at the shallow end of the pool.

Many are afraid to get into the pool -- the pool of emotions -- at all. "Yep, there they are. ... {laughter} ... Yep, there are my emotions, all right. I see them. Yeah, there's some anger there. ... There's some hurt, a little bit of hurt mixed in. ... There's a little mottled fear. Yes, there's some frustration and some joy there also, a few little sparkles, iridescent sparkles of love and joy. Yep they're all there all right. Boy." But they will not go into the water – they will not go into the emotion. Look, yes; go in, no. Are you one who will not go into your emotions?

Others will put a foot over the edge ... you know, splash their toes about and a bit, etc. "Ooh, I felt an emotion." ... {laughter} ... "WOW! I felt an emotion! The world should stop and sing hallelujah! Cymbals should crash. The skies should open. I felt an emotion!" ... {laughter} ... And you hear them sometimes say, "Well, I was just expressing my emotions," as if somehow that pardons everything, yes? Sometimes you hear them say, "I don't have to be responsible for those emotions, of course. Hey, I felt it. That's better than most do." And in fact, unfortunately and sadly, it is. ... {laughter} ...

And, in this sensing, there are those who will even jump right in, yes? Jump right in here and play around in the shallow waters, splash about in their emotions, have fun with them, etc. They will wade in waist deep or even up to their chests. They will play around in their emotions. But when they wander farther out and it gets a little deeper -- when it gets up to their chins in emotion -- then suddenly everything becomes very serious. ... {laughter} ... They slowly walk backwards; they slowly retreat, not from emotion but from the depth of emotion.

"Well, I'm probably exaggerating, you know? I'm probably just in a bad mood. I'm just sort of in a strange place. Don't...don't listen to anything I'm having to say. This is probably all just silly fantasy." And up and out they go! ... {laughter} ... They dry off, yes? ... {laughter} .... and get back to "normal" so they do not feel anything any further.

Some use self-pity to numb the wet of emotion. Like a very absorbent terry cloth. ... {laughter} ... some use the diversions of blame or self-righteousness, self-importance or clinging to a past to dry off and to stay away from the depth of emotion. Yes, some do go back to the wading pool; they approach and retreat over and over again. They continue to pretend that the pool is just too deep – just too scary.

If we tell you -- as you jump into the pond and start swimming about -- that it is six feet deep, most of you would have no problem with that. Some of you could even still stand on the bottom as your height allows you that, but many of you would still be over your heads. But it would be all right. You could manage. You could at least tread water, if not swim.

But if we were to tell you, "Oops, we made a mistake: We said six feet, but we meant six hundred or six thousand feet deep." All of a sudden it becomes very terrifying. You can be just as dead in six feet of water as you could in six thousand feet, but there is something about this deeper depth that is unknown. As such it is also frightening.

We would suggest that there is something about "what's down there" that makes it terrible. There might be some terrible monster, some prehistoric something or other. There might be a cave that would collapse. Many movies have been made about going deep into the ocean and finding the horrors that are located there in those great depths. And it's very much an archetypal feeling; you can relate to it because you are experiencing that same sort of terror, in the emotional sense, as you consider the depth of your emotion.

Why? What is so frightening about it? Why won't you explore the depth of your emotions?

You've Been Taught

1. First of all, it is frightening because of what you have been taught. You have been taught to stay out of the deep water. Some of you have been taught to stay out of the water altogether: "Don't feel your emotions." You have been taught that people will not like you if you are so emotional, if you express yourself, or if you have feelings. You are taught that if you must have them, at least have the common courtesy, the decent etiquette, to keep them to yourself. ... {laughter} ...

You have been taught by parents, by siblings, by friends, and by the parents of your friends. You have been taught by your teachers -- not by all of them, but by many of them -- to just sit on your emotions. "Shut up. We don't want to hear your feelings. Just be quiet and listen. Be a good kid. Be a good kid. Otherwise, I'll have to have your mother and father come in, and we'll have to talk about your emotional problems."

And what are those "emotional problems"?

"Well, they keep expressing them. They keep disrupting the class by being angry, or being happy. I just can't keep them in their seat. They're just so emotional. We've got to teach your child to get rid of their emotions."

You are taught by your system, and by the society, certainly so -- by television, by the books you read, and by news reports. The facts of your world often give you that very clear message: Do not feel your emotions. If you must, do it privately in the middle of the night and then, whatever you do, do not go deep.

2. Not only are you taught in this particular regard, certainly so, you are also taught that you will be too sensitive. Yes, you will be too sensitive. Nobody likes someone who is too sensitive, in that regard. We are not quite sure what it really means to be too sensitive, but nonetheless, you are so told and just that telling is enough. "Oh, well, of course I wouldn't want that." No one bothers to say why, but nonetheless, "I wouldn't want to be too sensitive."

In this sensing, you are also taught or conditioned not only that you will be somehow not liked or that you will be too sensitive, but also that you will be too unpredictable. No one will know – no one will be able to "foretell" – you or will be able to read you like a book. No one will know what is going on with you. And therefore, you are told and conditioned to believe, that this lack of predictability is a bad thing. It is a terrible thing, you are told.

3. You are also taught that it is weak. Too often, within the consensus reality, people who are emotional are seen as weak people. A product of chauvinism, both men and women too often believe an untruth: The reason that women cannot really be authorities and cannot really handle authority is because they are too emotional. They feel their emotions too deeply. They are too sensitive; they are too unpredictable!

What is the phrase? "Women, huh! Who can understand `em?" ... {laughter} ... You do not hear that phrase about men. "Men, huh! Who can figure `em out?!" ... {laughter} ... You don't hear that.... {laughter} ... Because, you see, men are by tradition not emotional. Even if they are, they are not considered emotional. Or if they are considered to be emotional, they are also considered to be "just like women." They are labeled and dismissed as too weak.

Indeed, a politician who expresses emotions surely will lose. Because ..."We can't have a politician who is emotional! We can't have a leader who feels their feelings!" ... {laughter} ... You have had how many centuries of what happens when you do not have leaders who feel their feelings ... {laughter} ... but nonetheless, that is what you have been taught.

You saw it when Pat Schroeder cried when she withdrew from the Senate race. And several years ago Edmund Muskie appeared to cry because someone hideously insulted his wife - someone he loved very much. Well, right there, that's it. "What if he were to cry at a negotiating table?" Well, probably at a negotiating table there would not be those underhanded ways of trying to insult his wife. But nonetheless, you tend to see emotional expressions as weakness, and you decide: "Don't be weak. Don't express yourself."

4. Another concern about being expressive: You will be unpredictable, you will be uncontrollable, and you will be less susceptible to manipulation. You will not be as easy. You will not be as easy to control nor as easy to manipulate. Others will not be able to play with the emotions that you are not supposed to admit you have. Therefore, people do not want you to be emotional, because then you will be outside of their reach.

5. And you are also taught that you will be too moody. And you are told that it's bad to have moods. You are warned, "Don't have moods." Explicitly or implicitly you are encouraged to be plastic, yes? You are encouraged to be shallow, be a robot and to let "them" pull a string and say the words you always say. A consensus reality, assigned the task of protecting you from chaos, has strong investments in nothing unpredictable, nothing unexpected, and certainly nothing with moods.

"Oh, good grief, they're moody!" What are the moods? No one bothers to check. Moodiness is enough, yes? "Well, if they're moody, you know we don't want to deal with them. We can't promote that person; they've got moods!" ... {laughter} ... "We can't trust them; they've got moods!" Yes?

6. And also, you might be just too much of an individual. You might be just too independent. You might be too much of a trouble-maker, because you're always feeling.

And so, you see, in so many ways you are taught. And there is not just one culprit. It is not just mother's fault or father's fault. It barrages you from every angle.

Sadly, we would suggest, even within the New Age you are taught not to feel or to only feel acceptable "spiritual" emotions. Such conditioning is often couched or hidden within the "half-truths" of the philosophy of detachment. Detachment is a beautiful concept. Yet even it can be used to teach, condition, cajole you into denying your emotions and into staying in the shallows of them. Either way, the price you pay is that you deny yourself the treasures that wait within the depths – within the depths of your emotions.

Fear of What You Will Find

You are told and many have come to believe that you should not become involved in your emotions (and in the depth of them) because you never know what trouble you will find there. So you are told; so you are conditioned to believe.

"What if I go out into that deep water and I start going into the depth of my emotion? I tried it once, and I didn't like what I found. There was anger there. There was hurt there. There was frustration and disappointment, depression and fear. There was fury and rage, and there was hate. I discovered emotions about people that I didn't like having at all. I found a child inside of me who had these emotions toward mother or father, toward siblings, toward friends. I found an adolescent who had those same feelings toward the same people and the whole world as well. I found that even I, the adult, was having those feelings. Ooh-ooh, I didn't like what I found."

But, you know, it is not just the contracting emotions that are called negative that frighten you. The love and joy and happiness scare you also. And ironically, it is those positive emotions -- that you pay lip service to finding -- that are the most terrifying of all.

Might we suggest that you are not really afraid of your anger as much as you pretend you are? You have had years and years of experiencing it. You know exactly what to do with your anger. You have done it. It is the love that has eluded you. It is the joy that has eluded you. It is the success and the wonderful feelings associated with that miraculous success, or any success, that is the most terrifying.

The reason you do not find a loving relationship might be because you are too angry. More often it is because you are not willing to love, to be intimate, or to be committed. It is more often because you are afraid of the feelings that will come with that relationship. Such feeling may include anger and hurt; more, such feelings will include happiness and joy.

Yes, we know you use that as an excuse, and you use it convincingly many times. But, in fact, when you clear out all those contracting emotions, relationships are often more terrifying than they were before, because now you are confronted with naked love, intimacy, caring. Now you are confronted with joy and excitement and enthusiasm -- and those emotions you do not have experience with. You have not figured out how to hide them, how to control them, how to suppress them. And therefore, they frighten you.

We would suggest that you are far more frightened of those positive emotions -- or those expansive emotions more correctly called -- than you are of the contracting ones, though you convince yourself otherwise. You are afraid of what you will find.

And you will note that when you go into the depth of your emotions, the first ones you will encounter are the contracting ones. Now, we call them contracting as opposed to negative. We know that your consensus reality calls them negative. Society calls anger, hurt, fear, doubt, insecurity, fury, rage, and depression negative emotions. And society says they are emotions you should not feel.

In fact, within the consensus reality we would suggest, if you do feel them you are encouraged to seek help -- not to express them, but to get rid of them. ... {laughter} ... We know that many of you are involved in psychological approaches, most of you in a more humanistic way, but in the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s -- and even into the 1970s and parts of the 1980s, much of psychology was about helping you get rid of your emotions -- not about helping you express them.

Your anger can be negative, there is no question, but it also can be a tremendously positive force. Feeling your depression is a fantastic thing because it gets you in touch with the gauze-like angers and hurts that are imprisoning you. It gets you in touch with quick and sudden change. It gets you in touch with angers that you think you're going to get punished for. Depression, when appropriately used, is a fantastic emotion. It is an alarm. It is a signal telling you there's a problem here. It is not negative. It can be, but it does not have to be.

Negative emotion is a societal oppression of feeling. We would suggest that true emotion that is negative is emotion that is not expressed, whatever it is. Anger that is not expressed is negative. And love that is not expressed is negative. Hurt that does not find an outlet can kill you and can be negative. But joy that you refuse to let out of your system can cause you to explode. Absolutely, it can be just as physically devastating as any hurt or anger can.

You see, love and happiness and enthusiasm, when not expressed, are destructive -- just as hurt and anger and fury when not expressed are destructive. On the other hand, when love and joy and enthusiasm are expressed, they're incredibly positive -- just as anger and hurt and depression and fury and rage can be incredibly positive.

Referring back to the miracles and the miraculous happenings in Europe [Berlin Wall coming down; break up of the USSR] and in South Africa [end of Apartheid], if it had not been for a rage that would not quit, if it had not been for an anger and a depression and a sense of "something's wrong here," none of those changes could have occurred.

If, indeed, those people had seen their emotions against the state, against the society, as negative (as they were told to) nothing would have changed. Those blacks and whites alike who saw apartheid as something wrong, and had a rage about it, are the ones that produced the change. The ones who refused to deal with their rage, who refused to admit it, who denied it and called such rage negative and bad were the ones who perpetuated the complacency. And that is so of any change.

Any change that has ever happened in your world -- what liberation women and other minorities have found -- has not come from your willingness to cooperate with the system. It has not come from "being good" or from "not being a troublemaker." None of those changes would be there had it not been for those "negative emotions."

And we would suggest when those "negative emotions" are not expressed, you see the impact -- the cancers, the heart disease, the respiratory problems -- because unexpressed emotions can kill you. They can break your heart. They can suffocate you. Negative emotions are not anger and hurt and rage. Negative emotions are those emotions, whatever they are, that are not expressed.

Positive emotions are not love and joy and happiness ipso facto. Positive emotions are those emotions which are expressed -- appropriately -- but that are expressed.

And what happens here when you start to go into the depth of your emotion? Absolutely, you run into a layer of anger and rage and hurt and depression and fears and doubts and furies and rages of all kinds. And often as you start into this depth and you start hitting those - hitting those, you panic. You get scared and you turn around:

"I don't like this! Why can't the depth of my emotion be love and joy and happiness? Why does it always have to be anger and rage?" Well, the joy and happiness are there. They are just down deeper. "Why, why?" The reason? Because heavy emotions sink to the bottom. ... {laughter} ...

"Are you saying my anger isn't heavy?" We are saying your anger is heavy, but your love is even heavier. Your capability for anger, no matter how much rage you pretend you have, is nothing compared to your capacity to love. You stand out in your capacity to love. Love is the light and yet it is the heaviest emotion of them all.

Your hurt, however painful it is -- and we know for many of you it is excruciatingly painful -- is nothing compared to the power, the heaviness, of your hope, of your enthusiasm, of your joy.

Those contracting emotions -- anger and hurt and frustration and whatever their names might be -- are indeed heavy, but not compared to the love, not compared to those expanding emotions which are even heavier. The depth of your love is far deeper than any of your rage and anger. The contracting emotions are but a narrow band floating on the top, like oil floating on water. Beneath that narrow band is this whole huge depth of all these very heavy, very profound, very powerful expansive emotions.

Just as with the changes in your world, there are always the contracting emotions being expressed appropriately in order to produce change -- be they anger or rage, or hurt, or outrage. Underneath it, that which sustains that change is the love.

Anger that overthrows tyranny is not enough: For anger alone will simply replace one tyranny with another. When that anger that overthrows tyranny is then followed with love, that's when full change occurs.

In this sensing, every dictatorial government in your world anywhere, at any time period, was brought about by a demand for change as a response to injustice. Every tyranny came out of rage and anger, out of depression and despair, absolutely. But when they had no greater depth than contracting emotions, they became the very tyranny they overthrew. It is only when that depth of contracting emotion was then supplanted by the much heavier, much more profound, expansive emotions of love and joy and enthusiasm and hope that real change could occur.

And this is the very predicament that your Eastern European countries are in now. They have gotten in touch with the anger and the rage, but will they carry through to get to the deeper emotions, or will they simply replace one tyranny with another? Will they allow the deeper, heavier, expanding emotions to produce permanent change as opposed to just disruption?

Yes, when you start feeling the depth of your emotions, you will touch first your angers, your rages, your hurts, there's no question. But keep going. And just when you're sure that you can't go any farther, that there's nothing more -- "This is all I am." -- then you go farther. And you will touch and begin to enter the realm of those expansive emotions.

And then, when you are really terrified ... {laughter} ... because now you are feeling these very positive emotions, then you go even deeper.

Because, you see, some of you have experienced going this deep. We say let's talk about your anger, and you perk up, "Oh, oh, yes, I've done that. ... {laughter} ... Let me talk about my anger! Let me tell you about mother." ... {laughter} ... Yes? Or, "Let me tell you about what my ex did to me." ... {laughter} ... And you can rage, and you can scream, and you can holler, and you can thrash about, and you can use all these analogies: "I feel like I want to shred `em, I want to tear `em apart, I want to strangle `em, I want to throw `em against the wall, I want to rip their guts out, I want to shred their heart, I want to.... Oh, boy, can I get in touch..."

But now let's go beyond that, let's get through that and down to the..."Oh, I don't have anything to say now." ... {laughter} ... "Love? I don't want to talk about that. You know, I've got to finish this first, you see." So some of you have got quite good at getting this deep in your emotions, but will not go into the really heavy emotions for fear of what you will find there: love and joy and happiness and enthusiasm.

Fear of Being Trapped in Emotion

You are afraid of your depth for fear that you will become caught there. "What if I lose control? What if I get emotional? What if people start seeing me as an emotional person who feels all the time? What on earth will I do? I would hate to be run by my emotions!" ... {laughter} ... You are. ... {laughter} ... You are already!

What keeps you numb and separate and going through life like some sort of robot? What keeps you asleep? What keeps you from waking up? Your emotions. They run your life already. What makes you need to manipulate and try to control and cajole and play the various games that you play? Your emotions. Not your thoughts, your emotions. They already are running your life. It is a strange irony perhaps, but you cannot possibly "lose control."

The fear is: "I'll go too deep. If this pool is six thousand feet deep, about four thousand feet down it would be too late. I would explode. I would pop. The pressure would be too much. I couldn't push off the bottom and get back up to the surface in time to breathe. I'm afraid I'll go too deep into my emotions and I'll get lost."

It has never ever happened. No one has ever experienced that. The people who go off any deep ends are those who will not feel their emotions, not those who do feel them. Even so, it is a fear than, in pursuit of depth, many of you encounter.

Fear of Intensity

It is not just that emotions scare you. The intensity of those emotions is a fear as well. Many will feel anger or hurt, but many of those many will not feel intense anger or intense hurt. Most do not even know what intense anger or intense hurt really are. Intense is not just being loud; it is not being out of control or lost in melodrama. Yet this is most often what comes to mind when you think of being intense.

For example, if you express your hurt and all the while are grinning, or if you apologize for your emotions -- "Well, I probably shouldn't be, and it's probably pretty stupid and silly, and I have no reason to be, but ... I'm scared" – you are afraid of intense feeling.

In this sensing, you will sometimes say, "I'm feeling like no one cares." Feeling like, feeling like, feeling like, feeling like, but never FEELING. You see, "feeling like a rubber ball" or like a piece of whatever, in that sensing, is not a feeling. That is circling the feeling.

[Drawing on the board] Imagine that somewhere in this pool is the anger with its intensity that you are really feeling. Over there somewhere is "feeling like a piece of garbage." In another place is "feeling like no one cares." Over here is "feeling like nobody wants me to be around." Here is "frustration." Here is "perturbed."

So how are you feeling? "Well, I'm feeling..." And then you jump over here to hurt and then wander over to "alienated, dissociated, and disenfranchised." Yes? ... {laughter} ... And then you come back here to being "frustrated, put out." Then you jump back here and over there, just to make it more interesting, ... {laughter} ... to some other emotion that is yet to be defined, and you skirt around the outer edges of that.

"Oooh, I'm feeling my emotions." Yes, you are feeling your emotions, but we would suggest, you are not getting to the depth because the intensity frightens you.

And therefore, "I'll dance, I'll perform, I'll even cry and wail and pound fists, etc., and pull hair, but don't expect me to feel the intensity. It's too scary. I've been taught that it's too scary. I might have to take a stand, you know? I might have to have character, you know? I might have to act out of principle for a change."

And if you really touch the core of an emotion, you might even have to give it up and not use it as a manipulation. ... "Well, you see, it's because when I was five this is what happened to me." Uh-huh, now that you understand it, what are you doing with it? "Well, I had planned to pack it up and use it next time!" ... {laughter} ...

You don't plan to get rid of it do you? "Noooo. ... {laughter} ... It comes in handy when I get caught red-handed in my reality. It's just too convenient. And therefore, let me roll out my `five-year-old' story. Oh, told you that one? How about my `seven-year-old' story? ... {laughter} ... You know that one too, yes? You know that one. Well, this relationship's over." ... {laughter} ... "I've got to go find someone else who doesn't know my stories! And I can start out again, and..."

And then you wonder why relationships last three years and then stop, and four years and then stop. Because that's when you run out of your stories! That's when you run out of the game, etc. And so "I'm not going to touch the intensity, because I'd have to give up the manipulation, I might have to take a stand. I might not be able to punish, I might not be able to judge."

Fear of Going Off the "Deep End"

What else is there? The fear that you will "go off the deep end," that you will go crazy -- the fear that the anger, the hurt, the fear, the love, the joy, or the happiness will be too much for you. It is a fear that you will somehow lose all touch with reality. "After all," you think, "there are institutions filled with people who went off the deep end."

No. We would suggest, no, that is not true. The institutions are filled with people who refused to get into the water. There is really no one who has gone off the deep end who felt their emotions honestly and genuinely.

Yes, there are those that have been filled with rage and went out and killed people. Yes, there have been serial killers and rapists and people who have committed various other hideous crimes that have been produced in the "name of" a negative emotion. Society says they were committed by someone who cracked, by someone who went off the deep end. But that is what society has told you, and that is what you "wanted" to hear. It seems safer within the paradigm of chauvinism.

We would suggest if those people -- the serial killers, the rapists, the multiple rapists -- had expressed their emotions honestly, and if they had a format to do so, they never would have gone off that end. It was precisely because they had nowhere to deal with those emotions, and no way to deal with those emotions, that they "went off the deep end."
"He always seemed like such a good boy. Never caused any trouble, never spoke out of turn, never got upset. I don't remember him ever being angry, I don't know what went wrong."

Precisely because they stood here too long, not getting in touch with their emotions – that is what drove them off the edge. Not getting in touch with their emotions, they finally found a deviant, destructive, violent outlet where all those emotions came pouring out. But it was not because they went too deep, not because they went over the deep end, or went off the edge. It does not happen. Even so, it is a fear. People have been conditioned to be afraid and they want to be afraid of the depths of emotion.

And that is what much of what the consensus society will tell you. It is what most within that consensus want to hear. It is not a conspiracy; it is a dance. It is a dance between society and individual. The dance: Keep out of the water; stay upon the shore.

And those who have gone off the deep end have done so precisely because they have never experienced and learned to deal with the depth of any of their emotions.

Fear of Change

There is also a fear that your life may change. Once people feel – honestly and genuinely feel – emotion with depth, often they change. They wake up and begin to explore and to achieve as never before. The "same ol’" is not acceptable; they change. Change frightens many; it is scary.

Sometimes in relationships, both are standing on the edge of the pool of emotions and one decides to jump in. Sometimes when they are both in splashing about having a good fine time in the shallow waters, one decides to go into the deep waters. The relationship changes. Sometimes one leaves the other behind. Or the other, frightened, runs away from the other.

Once you have experienced the depth and come back again, in that sensing, you are not the same. Therefore, relationships change, friendships change, jobs change, outlooks change, attitudes change. Reality can become miraculously successful, and that is a world different from what it was before. Precisely because you are afraid that your life will change, you fear the depth of emotion.

Fear of Accountability

Finally, there is the fear of accountability. Responsibility and its power frighten many. They terrify some. If you are in touch with the depth of your emotions, you will be accountable for your reality, you will be responsible, and you will powerfully create it.

We would suggest that when you step from the shore – when you jump in – and work your way to the deep water, certain choices and decisions, certain thoughts and feelings are set in motion. When you go into the deep waters and begin to go into the depth of what you find there you will create a field of force – you will create a resonance.

You will create a field of force, a resonance, that will lift you. Yes, it will. It will elevate you out of the muck, out of the mire, out of the consensus. Yes, it will. It will not make you "better than" -- it will not make you superior to.

But it will create a field of force that will change you and lift you out of the time, space, matter, and energy in which you currently exist.

And you will discover the treasures. You will discover the treasures that others pay lip service to. Lots of people talk of destiny, lots of people talk of meaning. Very few really have it.

Because, you see, when you function within your destiny, your life works. There is no fine print. When you function within your destiny, your life works. When you function within your meaning, your life works. It works magically and miraculously. It works with miraculous success.

People can say they have a destiny, they can say they have found meaning, but too often such statements are just words that are too empty and too hollow to have power or to produce change.

What is your destiny? "My destiny is to have impact on the world, to make a difference. My destiny is to heal, to create." It is said well but where are the emotions? And are those emotions not only real, are they deep? Sadly, such beautiful statements that could hold so much magic are empty. More sad, people, you blame yourself and often end up punishing yourself.

The words are empty and the destiny weak, not because you are inadequate or undeserving, but because you lack the depth of emotion that could turn these words into treasures. You are not weak, the words are empty and hold no treasure.

There are also those who have a destiny that cannot be labeled so nifty and neatly. Yet such destiny is rich and ripe with emotion and with depth – filled with treasure. For them with such a destiny, everything seems to work like magic. Miraculous.

When you function within your destiny, reality works. When you have meaning, not sought after in the ethers but found in the blood and guts and the absurdity of the world, of the illusion, your life works miraculously.

When you have personality -- not something you read in a book, not something that the right clothes or the right etiquette give you -- but personality that is real in its emotion and its depth, your life works miraculously. When you have personality that is inherent in you – that is not about the right car, the right neighborhood, the right job, or going to the right plays and cultural events -- your life works miraculously. When your personality is not something you put on and take off, but is something that is really you, your life works miraculously.

Character: You can develop principles, and you can establish ideals and principles, and you can remind yourself of them every morning. Indeed, for some of you, that is important right now. Some people who do not have much character may have to go one day at a time and get through one day, and then another, and then another until they eventually condition themselves. But then there is the character that comes automatically, that becomes instinctive, that becomes unconscious; consciously unconscious. That type of character is the treasure; it is a true treasure and it is truly a treasure.

And the strengths that are treasures are not a result just of reminding, telling yourself, coaxing yourself, convincing yourself. They are the functioning strengths that produce realities out of those strengths.

As it is with strength, so it is with motivation. Motivation becomes a treasure when it no longer is something that you have to talk yourself into every morning so you will get up, get dressed, go to work, and do your job to earn the money so you can take that vacation. ... {laughter} ... The treasured strength and motivation are not something you do to stay out of trouble or to look good for others. True motivation is a motivation that does not give a hang what anybody else thinks, but is yours, that does what you want it to.

And there is the identity of knowing who you really are. And there is a perpetual-motion creativity.

Everybody can pay lip service to these. Everybody can condition themselves and reach certain levels of success, absolutely. And if you refuse to feel the depth of your emotion, we would encourage you then to artificially create all of these qualities because the mundane success that they can generate is better than no success. Create artificial treasures, if you must. For even such treasures will serve you well.

But we strongly encourage you instead to find the real ones, and the only place you are ever going to find them is at the bottom of this pool of emotion.

And no matter what rationales or excuses you give yourself, it is at the bottom of the pool that you will find the genuine treasures.

And those who continue to stand at the edge of the pool – those who insist upon remaining safely on shore – will never quite understand what we are saying. They will never quite understand and will never know. They will spell each word correctly: destiny, meaning, personality, image, character, strength, motivation, and identity. But there is so much more that will be missed; there is so much more that might be lost. The perpetual creativity can be illusive; it can be lost.

Others who dabble in the shallow waters will get a hint, and those of you who have explored and started to go into this depth and have been scared off for any number of the reasons – you will taste something.

And those that have gone into the depth and even reached certain of that depth will feel homesick and feel a certain sadness, because you will know, because you will understand what we talk about when we are talking of treasures, because you came close but did not quite get there. You will feel homesickness and a certain sort of sadness that you will not even be able to describe.

But it is through this depth, this motion of going into the water, into the deep water, and into the depth to the bottom, that you will discover these treasures.

And these treasures -- once you discover them, once they are yours -- will have impact upon you, and they will elevate you to a rarefied place of miraculous success.

With love and peace,

LAZARIS

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