CD Three. Ok, now this next section requires that you have picked a dream. So if you haven't

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1 Ok, now this next section requires that you have picked a dream. So if you haven't picked a dream I want to suggest something to you. Here's the deal...you don't get a choice about creating life. Again you are going to create a life. If you will keep breathing another five hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes or another twelve months, in the next twelve months you will create a year of life. So you don't get to not create a life so make up something. At least make up a possible life; something that you would love to experience or be or do or give or express. So make something up if you haven't thought up something on your own, ok, because you need that in order to go forward with these principles. You would have to have something to apply it to Dr. Jean Houston, the famous anthropologist, told me a story once about an old man who was walking through a botanical garden. As he is walking through the botanical garden he gazes at a cactus plant that he is passing and he notices that there is a little frog on the cactus. As he passes by he hears 'Mr., Mr.! I am a princess trapped in a frog's body. All you have to do is kiss me and I will turn into 45

2 my princess self and I will give you any pleasure you desire.' So the old man puts his hand out and the frog jumps on his. He brings the frog right up to his mouth and then he gently takes the frog and he puts the frog in his pocket. He hears this muffled 'Mr., Mr.! (muffled)' and he pulls the frog up. She says 'You don't get it! I am a princess trapped in this frog's body. All you have to do is kiss me. I will turn into my princess self and I will give you any pleasure you desire.' He holds the frog back up close to his mouth and then he says 'You know, frankly at my age I'd rather have a talking frog.' Of course it made me laugh when she told me that story but what I loved about it was just because most people would think that's something you should want is a princess who can give you any pleasure you want--most guys would want that-- this guy had like his own center of gravity. He knew, no. And just because life tosses you an idea or just because somebody is living a certain way, you get to decide what matters to you. So you want your dream to be something that matters to you; that's really in harmony with your own soul's purpose. Now how will you know that? We are going to take a little test. I am going to ask you five questions that you will apply to the possibility of the dream that you are deciding for, because by the end of this lesson you will have decided for a dream. 46

3 Now, you have been in consideration of a dream. You have been exploring the possibilities about how dreams work. You understand that everything is created twice, that thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind, that you are a creative presence and power and you don't get a choice about that, that you will design a life or you will default to the position of the patterns you have had and you are choosing to explore possibilities, entertain ideas, move into the imaginal realm and construct a thought form of possibility that you fall in love with. That's what you are doing here in dream building Just because an idea comes up, you test it. Is this really the life I want to live? And there's five questions that will help you decide if this dream is worthy of you putting your life energy into it. Because most people when they get a really great dream get an idea of something they would like to do, they ask the wrong question. They say am I worthy of that? It's the wrong question. The real question is is that dream worthy of me? Is it worthy of me? You have this precious, precious thing called your life. It's unrepeatable. Every single day is a gift from the universe to be shaped and actually every day is like a lifetime in miniature. It has a beginning. It has an end. You get to shape that. You can experience it as 47

4 deeply or as shallowly as you choose, but how you shape each day begins to create a pattern that becomes a form that becomes an experience that we then say that was my life. So you are starting right now for the whole next year of your life. It does not have to be what it's been before. It can be what you really long for if you are willing to apply the principles that we are talking about. Remember, they work if you work them So consider a dream now. Bring one to mind or make one up. This is the life I want to live. Now we are going to ask some questions that will help us test that dream. First question: When I think about living the life I am imagining, so imaginally now move inside that life just like Goody moved inside her hotel. She got inside the upper rooms. She was seeing the fire and the embers and the empty coffee pot and the conversations and the dessert plates with crumbs on them and she felt so fulfilled. So imagine the life you want to live, alright? Question number one, does it give me life? Meaning when you step inside that dream imaginally do you feel an amplified aliveness? You want a yes to this question. Your life force will never lie to you. If you imaginally move into a dream and you feel containment or constriction, it's not your dream. Now you may have 48

5 a worthy goal, like my dream is to get the garage cleaned out. Well that might be a worthy goal to get your garage cleaned out but it's not really your dream. Your dream is for more expansive expressive life and the forms of that will be unique to each one of us. The creativity and the lens through which that is expressed is as unique as our thumbprint. But that it gives us more life is universal. So when you imaginally put yourself inside the dream do you feel more alive? Do you feel more expansive? You want a yes to that question. Does it give me life? Yes Number two, does it align with my core values? Now you may not know what your core values are and that would be a good exploration. When it all is said and done and when you put your head on the pillow for the very last time, and you will, what will have mattered to you? What matters most? I remember sitting with Robert Fulgham one time. He is, I think, one of America's great philosophers. He wrote the book Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. He said to me--i was struck by it--he says 'You know Mary, don't you find it odd when someone comes to you as a minister and they have just got this ashen face and they sit down and they say I just found out I am going to die.' He says 'Don't you want to say to them how did you get to be this 49

6 age and just find this out?' I hadn't ever thought of that but it's true. Most of us walk through life pretending like it's gonna happen to other people and we are really not on the list, when what's true is we just never know when. I mean, this life is precious and it's fragile. When it's all said and done what will have mattered most to you? Those are your core values. It may be relationships. It might be family. It might be giving your gift to the world. I don't know what it is for you but I know that you need to know and you want to align your dream with your core values. And here's the truth, your real dream will never ask you to be out of alignment or to mute or to mitigate your authentic true values So here's an example. There was a young woman who came to me once. She took the dream building workshop. She was exploring this. She had a dream for adventure. When she got into the imaginal realm she really...she had never done any travel. She was in her early thirties. I didn't know much about her. She had taken the workshop and then she came back afterwards and made an appointment with me to talk. She said 'You know, when I really got clear about what I want it's just like I just light up when I think about adventure and when I think about traveling. I just want to do that. I've never done any of that.' She said 'I didn't go to college. I went to work right away. I got a hair dressing license or a 50

7 hair styling license and I have been cutting hair all these years and I started thinking that I could actually cut hair on a cruise ship. I could go to exotic places. I see myself on these beaches.' You could just see her light up as she was talking about this possibility of exploring, traveling, expanding her horizons, cutting hair on a cruise ship She said 'But then when you asked us to test it and it was like does this align with my core values it's like there's this part of me that isn't happy about my doing that.' I said 'So describe that.' She said 'Well my husband is really in support of me. He knows--and she actually when she came she had a contract from a major cruise line and it would mean she would go out for three months, come home for three weeks, go out for three months, and come home for three weeks, go out for three months and come home for three weeks for a fifteen month process. She said 'My husband loves me. He wants me to have what I want and he is in support and he'll take care of everything, which includes our three year old but I just don't know about the long range effects; what this will mean to my three year old over time. When she's ten or twelve will she resent that I missed a year of her life?' I just looked at her and I said 'You know, the fact that you are not settled about it is a very strong signal that it is not in alignment with your own core values. When 51

8 it's in alignment with your core values you line up. All parts of you agree. Not all parts of you will say you know how to do it. Of course not. It's outside the frying pan of what you've known. But you won't have parts of you arguing with you about whether or not this is your path So I said to her 'What it was that struck you about travel was really the call of adventure. Go back to the dream realm. Go back to your imagination and explore other images of adventure, because adventure for the more, adventure for the expansive, adventure for a form of life where you have been feeling constricted and contained and too much routine, there is something beckoning you. The picture you got of adventure is not in alignment with your core values. But that doesn't mean that there isn't an adventure for you. Go back to the dream realm. Explore, expand, consider and pull out a big fish.' So she came back a couple of weeks later and I could just tell by the light in her eyes and the lightness in her step and the way her shoulders were being held that whatever it was she had found it. She sat down and she said 'You know, I spent some real time getting close to myself, listening in and exploring what adventure means. What I realized is that I never went to college because my father had a 52

9 viewpoint and the viewpoint was that girls are just going to get married and have babies anyway so they don't need to go to college. We are going to send the boys to college and my two daughters are not going to go to college. Then when I was the one who really wanted to go to college anyway, he told me I wasn't college material. Believing that I went on and I became a hairstylist. The truth is I don't want to do more hairstyling. I was seeing a cruise ship as like a breaking free of something. I don't want to do more hair cutting. I want to do less So when I finally got connected, what I realized was I have always wanted to teach kids. I just think I would love to teach kindergarten. Ever since I was a little girl I saw myself teaching kindergarten. But, you know you have to have a college degree to do that and absent that I haven't been able to do it. I have just done what I could do. When I shared that with my husband he and I began to explore possibilities about how I really could do that. We have already been approved for an equity loan on our house that's going to fund my education. I am just going to work part time. I am going to go to school and I really think that I am college material and I want to find out.' You could see her adventure was the adventure of learning. You know, that kid was not only smart--she was so smart and she was so excited about the opportunity to learn. She did her whole four years of 53

10 undergraduate work in elementary education in two years and a summer. So the three year old, two and a half years later is one of the students in her first class. When I went to visit her, here she was putting up bulletin boards and arranging the room and the feeling and the energy in that room and her own child was going to be one of her first students. Now not only did she have her dream but it was so in alignment with her core values that it not only was a blessing to her but everyone else who knew her. So the question is does it give me life? Does it align with my core values? Question number three. Is your dream going to require that you grow? The Talmud says every blade of grass has an angel leaning over it whispering grow, grow, grow. That same pull of becoming is in you. Your current frying pan isn't big enough. It's going to require that you step into a larger dimension of yourself. Now does it mean that you know how to do that? No. Does it mean that you know all that is required? No. But can you see that to live a larger life you are going to have to grow? Grow in understanding, grow in awareness, grow in action, grow in the many different things that will be required to anchor and secure and make stable then a larger experience of aliveness and life demonstration. That is your dream. So does the dream require that I grow? You want a yes to that question. 54

11 That puts you in harmony with the way it works in the universe. Does it give me life? Does it align with my core values? Is it going to require that I grow? Number four. Do I need help from a higher power? Another way to ask this question is do I know every single thing that needs to be done to bring about this dream. If I know every single thing that needs to be done to bring about this dream then the dream isn't big enough. It's just a worthy goal. It can be a really great worthy goal. But if you already know everything there is to do to bring about the dream it's not big enough. Because here's how it works, your dream actually pulls you into a larger dimension of who you have been created to be but you are not yet aware of it. My dreams have pulled me into larger dimensions of awareness about who I really am, who I have been created to be. That dream is the future pull of the discovery of the authentic self. Now part of that is exploring in the unknown aspects of really who you are. You have to allow the dream to build you, not just you build the dream. We will talk more about this as time goes by. But for now the question is do you know every single thing that needs to happen? Do you know exactly how to build this dream? Do I need help from a higher power? Yes. Now where is this higher power? It's this infinite mind. It's everywhere present. It's the land of the solution. It's just not in my awareness yet 55

12 but I have access to that because I am a child of this universe. I am a child of the infinite. I am part of it. Do I know exactly how to get all that? No, not yet. But again that is not my business. My business first and foremost is to create the blueprint. It's to make a decision for a life I want to create and a difference I want to make. Does it give me life, this dream? Does it align with my core values, this dream? Is it going to require that I grow? Do I need help from a higher power? You want yeses to all those questions And the last question is this. Is there some good in this dream for others? Now, the universe cares very much about fuller, freer expanded experiencing life through you, yes. But not just you, we are all connected. There is one presence, one life, one uni-verse. So your dream, in order to have the full weight and support of the universe must in some way make a difference for good. Now if you are thinking part of your dream is you really want that intimate relationship that has seemed elusive to you and you think well how is my having my soul mate, my partner going to be a blessing to others? Here's the truth. Any two people who absolutely anchor and demonstrate what real love looks like in the world are a blessing to every person who knows them. If your dream is about growing a garden, you are either going to produce food or beauty. There is a blessing in that. 56

13 So your idea of good for others does not have to have some peak merit to it that makes most dreams...it's not like that. It's this way, just look at that and say you know what there is a blessing in this dream for others. There is good that will come from this to others One of the men that went to the workshops that I have done, it was a number of years ago. He was a software engineer in the Northwest. He was making a lot of money at that time. He had a family. He had two sons and a wife. But his dream, where he would go do his software engineering, put in sixty or seventy hours and week, but where he came alive was on the weekends in his back yard inside the hothouse where he grew orchids. He loved growing orchids. His dream was that he would create a nursery and open up a florist shop and yes be a full service florist shop but they would become known as THE place to get orchids in the Northwest. That was really his dream. He wanted to do that and he began to shape that dream and construct that dream in his mind. He wrote it down. He described the florist shop. It had a greenhouse out back where he grew his orchids. And this was what he loved to do he got to do full time and that what he loved to would absolutely produce income for him and his family

14 Then as he began to test the dream, yes it gave him life. Yes it aligned with his core values. Yes it would require that not only he but the plants would grow. Did he need help from a higher power? You can't grow anything without the law of nature, the help from a higher power, and certainly to start a business. He had not done that before but he would need help in doing that. And when he got stuck it was on the last one. Is there good in this dream for others? Because what he knew was that to quit his job as a software engineer it would completely change the economic standard that his family was used to living in, at least for a time and that in order to have the funds to start the business as best he knew it was either going to require taking out a loan or taking the equity out of his house and perhaps even out of his retirement to start this business. He knew that that economic shift was not just going to affect him, but his wife and his sons He began to feel selfish. He began to think I can't do this. I need to do what I am doing. They have a life. It's not up to them to sacrifice so I can have my dream. When he told me that he had decided not to open the florist shop because there was really no good in it for others I asked him to just reconsider. I asked him to just at least spend a little time asking the question 'what is good?' What does that 58

15 mean, good? What does that mean to him and what did it mean in regard to his dream and what did it mean in regard to his family? What is good? Frank went away and when he came back again I could see. When we are troubled and struggling it isn't just internal. It shows up in ourselves. It shows up in our countenance, in the way our shoulders are held and the step we take. Boy when Frank came in I mean it was just a whole different energy. I said 'Ok so what happened? You look better.' He said 'I am better!' He says 'You know, when I asked that question, what is good? I started thinking and it led me. I just kept asking the question and it kept leading me down different corridors of my life. What I realized is right now I am working seventy hours a week. I make a good living and we live on that good living but I have very little free time and so my boys don't even hardly see me during the week. I also started thinking about how I got into engineering. My dad was an engineer and he also had a strong work ethic and a male value which it's up to the man to provide. So I got into engineering more out of fear than something I really loved to do. It was something I thought I could do that and I have done that and I am doing what my dad did, which was provide. The model I was raised in it doesn't matter what you 59

16 dream or it doesn t matter what you really would love to do. You've got to provide. Buck up. Suck it up and go out there and provide.' He said 'All of a sudden I realized I am living my dad's life. More than that I am modeling for my sons that they should live that life too. If they don't see me shift this pattern, if they don't see me go after my dream, how will they ever think they can go after their dream? Am I not by staying and doing what I don't really love to do but do it for the money, am I not showing them a value that isn't the highest value. I started thinking my wife is interested in this florist shop. She says she would love to help out. My sons as they get a little older could work summers, they could work weekends, they could if they want to there's a place they can work.' Well Frank did that. He actually took a step. He got a leave of absence for a year from his software engineering job. He borrowed money against the equity of his house. He got a bridge loan and opened that florist shop. I don't know that it ever became known in the whole Northwest as THE place to get orchids but I do know this, it got a great reputation. Business flourished over time. It took him a few years to kind of get it going but he was living the life he loved. His sons did work 60

17 weekends and summers and the community came to know them not only as a family but a great place to be and do business with. He began to see how there was good in it in a way that was not predicted by a pocketbook. So when you asked yourself the question is there good in this for others, let yourself be expansive in the consideration of what that means So, to recap the five point test then on your dream. Remember, you are not asking am I worthy of this dream. You are asking is this dream worthy of me trading my life for the building of that dream. Again, you are going to trade your life to build something so you will either build on the default position or you will build out of design. So you are creating a rich powerful piece of design to bring to the mind to go to work on to create a life that you would love. You can fall in with this idea. Does it give me life? Does it align with my core values? Is it going to require that I grow? Do I need help from a higher power? Is there some good in this dream for others? If you can answer yes to all those five questions then this dream is worthy of you moving toward it. Now you may get redirected along the way to some higher order dream, but take some steps and we will show you what those steps are here as we go through these lessons. But right now I am asking you to decide for that dream. 61

18 If your dream did not pass the five point test, it isn't quite in alignment with your core values or it's not big enough because you really understand exactly what needs to be done, then go back to the dream chamber. It isn't that there isn t' a dream for you. It's just that the discovery of it isn't yet complete. So do whatever is required before you take the next step now because you want to have a dream in mind and decided for Now I want to conclude this lesson by sharing with you really a clue and a code for how it is that we are going to go forward in our work in dream building. A few years ago my husband and I went Concord, Massachusetts. Years ago Wayne Dyer had said to me "Mary some day you just gotta go sit in the vortex of Concord." Concord is where democracy, American-style was hatched. The ideas were hatched right there. It's where the shot heard round the world occurred. A hundred years later people were gathering, having conversations that would become known as the Concord Conversations. So Joe and I went there and we spent a day. We traveled and we touristed around the place and sat in places that in the middle 1800's people were gathering and conversing. We went to one of the homes where these conversations held every Sunday night deep rich inquiry 62

19 and they learned to ask important questions. Now the home is still owned by the family. The furniture in that house is still some of the same furniture that was there in the middle 1800's. This was the place where Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family would come on Sunday evening; where the Alcott family would come. It's the Emerson home. So Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family, they would gather, they would invite the neighbors and their handyman would stand outside the parlor where they were gathering and listen in, every once in a while entering into the conversation from outside. Finally they decided to include him in the conversations. The handyman's name: Henry David Thoreau It's said that in the tour we took of the house there were walking sticks, that Emerson always liked to have a walking stick when he went for a walk. When he would ask Henry if he wanted to borrow one of the walking sticks for their walk together Henry would say no, it's too much company. Now Henry David Thoreau decided to do an experiment with life. I love that idea. That's what we are really inviting you to do know as you move into deciding for your dream and then exploring these principles and the application of these universal life laws in your life and a more conscious way making you more aware of the power that you have 63

20 and are using anyway to create the forms of the life you experience. Henry David Thoreau decided to do an experiment with life Now as a student also of Gandhi, Gandhi's autobiography is called My Experiment with Truth. Gandhi began his experiment with truth actually the day he was thrown off a train. As a young attorney in South Africa he purchased a first class ticket. He was in the first class section of that train and because the color of his skin was unacceptable to some of the people in power at the time it didn't matter that he had purchased a first class ticked. It didn't matter that he had a legal right to ride in the first class section. Because they didn't like the color of skin, they and the powers that be grabbed him when he refused to move to the third class section and literally threw him off the train. He writes that when he was picking himself up out of the dirt his three piece suit and brushing off the dirt from his suit, something happened inside of him. Because there was all of this pull of the local humanity; local self, that ego that would say get even, get back, revenge, retribution and he found another part of himself that he would then call later ahimsa, or soul force. He realized that either he would define that moment or that moment would define him. He called that his defining moment because he chose to turn to another part of himself and that part that would be retributive 64

21 and go after and fight back and be cynical and all of those energies he said no. I am going to turn to something of a higher nature The development of that he would then call ahimsa, or soul force, and he would begin to use that as a way not only of transforming his life but the community and ultimately all of India itself and anyone who has studied Gandhi over time has recognized the great power of soul force. Well that's what we are exploring here That's what Henry David Thoreau wanted to discover. He said I want to learn how to suck the marrow out of aliveness. I want to learn how to suck the marrow out of aliveness. He went about a mile and a half from the Emerson house and where those conversations were held and there he built a place to stay alongside a pond and he lived there what he called 'deliberately'. He lived deliberately for two years, two months and two days and then he wrote a little essay about his experience and he called it Walden So Joe and I got a picnic and we grabbed a copy of Walden and we went out and we sat by--it's like a small lake, Walden--and we read the essay together and I was 65

22 struck in a deeper way than I ever have been by part of the conclusion of Walden. While I had heard this phrase many times, I began to realize that what Henry David Thoreau was giving us was not only a clue but an actual code to how it works in the universe. It is a metaphysical universe. There is both physicality and there is spirit. There is this invisible substance that is life itself; that physicalizes into what we call the human experience which is apprehended through our five senses. It's got physicality to it. But it is really spirit expressing in a physical way. So Henry David Thoreau said this: If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream, endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary and meets with a success unexpected in common hours. All sorts of things begin to occur that never otherwise would have occurred. New, more universal, liberal laws begin to establish themselves around that person. The old laws are rearranged in one's favor. Nevertheless, one begins to live with the license of a higher order of being Do you remember when you got your driver's license? If you can remember that, it was a feeling of empowerment and freedom and choice and power. You could go places. You could do things that you couldn't do before. You had to wait for permission or you had to have somebody else do it for you or get your there. Now 66

23 it's in your authority to do that. Well this is what Thoreau is saying, is that there is a higher order of being; a license that you get to live from a higher order of your own beingness. But it starts out with 'if'. You can have this license. It's yours by your birthright. But you have to attain it just like you have to go through the rigor of learning how to drive a car, being a student driver and then taking a test. And if you pass the test--a written test and a driving test--then the state gives you a license. Then you have authority to be able to operate at a higher domain of empowerment. The universe is very much like that. The ability for you to create your dreams is innate. It's everywhere present. But your access to that and your awareness of that is what changes So Thoreau said this: You don't have to do this. You can create another life, another whole year or another whole lifetime out of the patterns that are already programmed into your thinking. You can continue to stay at what most people do, which is condition-based thinking and look to conditions for permission to do what you really want to do. Or you can choose to shift and get the support that is required to stay in that upward momentum. So Thoreau says ok, if one advances confidently in the direction of their dream...you can't advance in a direction you don't have. There's an old saying that says no wind is favorable to the sailor who 67

24 has no destination in mind. You have to know where you want to end up so you know how to set the sails, so you know how to turn the rudder, so you can capture the wind and use it in service of where you want to end up. So that's what your dream is. It's a higher order of life that gives you a navigation point from which you harness the energies of life in service of the destination or the dream you are considering, you are dreaming of, you are wanting, you are desiring. It answers your discontent and expresses your longing If one advances confidently. Now how do you advance confidently in the direction of a dream that hasn't happened yet? How can you be confident when it hasn't happened yet? You become confident because you study and you understand the laws of the universe. You understand how it works. When you plant corn in a field you are confident that if it is tended well the law of nature will take its course and you are going to get corn. You know ahead of time the growing season. You don't know the growing season in your dream, but you get confident in this way. So imagine this, I have got a lamp in my hand. It's got a bulb in it and it's got a cord. So I am advancing now over to the electric plug. Do you suspect that I am advancing with 68

25 a measure of confidence as I head over to the electric plug in the wall? Well you would be too. You just head over to the plug. You'd be fully expecting that lamp to come on and if you plug it in and you turn the switch and the light doesn't come on, you don't get down on your knees and beg the law of electricity 'Please law of electricity work for me this time please. I have done really well. I have done my meditation, my prayer. I have been good. Can you please...?' No. We'd think there was something wrong in the wiring here. It's either in the wall or it's in the cord or I need to change that bulb, and we'd want to get properly wired so that we could have the light we want to have wherever we are The truth is the ability; the law of electricity has always been here. The ability for us to have light wherever we wanted has always been present, but it wasn't present to us because we didn't understand how the law worked. Once we began to understand how the law works and get in harmony with it we can not only have incandescent light wherever we want, we have learned how to use laser. The law always works. The question is our working with the law. The law of thermodynamics always works. Orville and Wilbur Wright began to explore and experiment with that law. How to get something that is heavier than air up in air and there was a law to be applied. You and I get on airplanes all the time with 69

26 confidence. We are confident that that law of thermodynamics is always going to work. We are also confident usually in the airplane industry that we are flying that there is proper maintenance and knowledge and skill to apply that law in a constructive way. Well that's what you want to do. You want to have proper knowledge and skill to apply that law that is at work anyway towards the construction of your dream because you are going to apply your thinking anyway So if one advances confidently. You get confident in how it works in the universe. You are studying this. You are listening to these CDs. You are doing the explorations and checking this out and thinking about this and having conversations about it and writing your dreams down and you are experimenting with a different way of living life. If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary. Now you heard the story about Goody Cable. She imagined not only the hotel but she began to live the life she was imagining. Mentally she moved inside the hotel. Mentally she was upstairs in the upper room having conversations, seeing the fire turn to embers, seeing the plates with crumbs from the great desserts that had been eaten, seeing the coffee pot with just a little tiny 70

27 coffee at the bottom. It had all been drunk and the conversations were rich. Ultimately she would find herself in that very room If one advances confidently in the direction of the dream endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary because the boundary is made up of only one thing. The frying pan is made up of thought. It's a thought that we can't. It's a thought there's not enough. It's a thought I need a different education. It's thought. One passes an invisible boundary. All sorts of things start to happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise. One meets with success unexpected in common hours. The laws of the universe begin to reveal themselves to you and to me and one begins to live with a license of a higher order of being. This is not only the promise. This is the way it works to people who are awake and aware enough to see it. 71