When You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look At Change — Wayne Dyer

foreign s that really intrigues me is this idea and I heard it many many years ago I'm not even sure of the original Source where I heard it but it goes like this when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change Albert Einstein once observed that uh you have the most fundamental and major decision that you have to make in your life is this do I live in a friendly or a hostile universe which is it is it a universe that is filled with hostility and anger and people wanting to hate each other and people wanting to kill each other is that what you see because when you see the world that way that's exactly what you will create for yourself in your life this is from great scientific minds and the interesting thing is that this is not just a a clever play on words that when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change it's actually a very scientific thing and I'm going to show you that in just a moment I'd like you to imagine the following scene you're in your house you've got your car keys in your hat the lights go out power failure you can't see a thing you stumble around in your living room and you drop your keys and you look around for a moment and you realize that you're never going to find them in the dark but you look outside and you notice that the street lights are on so in your mind a light bulb goes off hmm I'm not going to sit around here in the dark and rope around looking for my keys when there's a light on outside I'm going to go out here under the street light I'm gonna look for my keys [Music] why are you laughing this is this makes a lot of sense so you're out here and you're groping around and you're looking for your keys and you're looking and looking and your neighbor comes along and says what happened wait well um I dropped my keys oh I'll help you look for them and the two of us are now down here looking for our keys they're looking finally he says to me excuse me but um where did you drop your keys well um I dropped him in the house he said you mean to tell me that you dropped your keys in the house and you're looking for them out here and the street light doesn't make any sense and I said well it doesn't make any sense to grope around in the dark when there's light out here now you laugh and you think how silly that is but isn't that exactly what we do when we have a problem a difficulty a struggle that is located inside and we're looking for the solution outside some place outside of ourselves it would be like going to the doctor and telling him all of your symptoms and the doctor says oh boy you've got a lot of symptoms and he starts writing out prescriptions you need a prescription for this symptom you need a prescription for that symptom and finally he gets this four or five and you go to walk out and you say well I'd like my prescriptions he said no no no I'll give this one to your mother-in-law and I'll give this one to your neighbor and I'll give this one to your daughter and I'll give this one to your father I mean you're the one with the struggles and with the difficulties and giving expecting somebody else to change or something outside of you to get better in order for you to make your life work at this level that I'm calling intention is something you have to really take a hard look at it's in here we have to see the question isn't whether I'm connected to this field of intention the question is how ready am I to keep that connecting link absolutely corrosion free and I used to ask the question many years ago from studying philosophy and teaching it for many years who am I who am I I'm pretty much at peace with that now I really think that who I am is a is a piece of the Divine Source disguised as a an author and a father and a writer and someone who delivers these kinds of uh talks and and so on it's all a disguise I remember when someone asked Mother Teresa what do you do every day in the streets of Calcutta she had a wonderful profound answer she said every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises I see the unfolding of source the unfolding of God the unfolding of spirit in all that I encounter and I see it in myself as well and I see that and know that that's not the question that bugged me the most the one that puzzled me the most is where did I come from where did I come from you ever ask yourself that question I used to ponder that I could remember I lived in a series of foster homes for a while when I was a young boy I felt I was about nine and I lay out out in Mount Clemens Michigan I would lay out on the grass and I would look up and I'd see these endless stars there was an apple orchard out there and I could just lie there on my back and I just look up and I'd say where did that come from where did I come from and it's not about reincarnation I always liked uh Eleanor Roosevelt's response when they asked her if she believed in reincarnation she said I don't think it would be any more bizarre for me to show up in another lifetime than it was for me to show up in this one it's always kind of made sense to me you know it's hard to figure all of this out but where did I come from where did I come from so you ask yourself this perplexing question where did I come from and most of us when we when we think about that question we come up with uh with an answer and the answer is as hard as it is for us to even imagine our parents did it it's a tough one but uh in one Blissful Moment One Drop of human protoplasm in some mysterious way collided with another and life began at this in this microscopic Dot now I used to I could remember years ago we had uh we had four children in seven years and um my daughter my teenage daughter Stephanie at that time was uh well she had to take on a lot of the helping responsibilities around the house when these babies just kept showing up and we found out that we were going to have another child another mysterious uh thing happened and um another child was on its way and my wife and I flipped a coin to decide who would tell Stephanie and I lost so I cornered her one day when she was in a really good mood and I said honey you're not going to believe this but uh we're gonna have another baby oh that's great in her hands instant pose this is it this foot here this one out here it's terrific I said well it really is I said and you should probably be glad that we didn't have the same attitude that you have when we found out about you she said yes but how do you think it feels I said well why don't you tell me she said no Dad how do you think it feels to be the only kid in junior high school who has parents who like to do it and I said Steph I know this is going to be hard for you to accept but uh Grandma and Grandpa do it that is just sick so when we think about where we came we come from that that sort of is the place that we get to in our hearts but just go back to that moment for a second and understand that uh remember what I said earlier when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change just keep that idea in mind because if you go back to the time of your absolute beginning into the material world you know that there was a microscopic Dot and this microscopic Dot included everything that you needed for this physical journey and you can't even see it with a microscope it's just it's too it's just too mysterious and too mystical to even contemplate isn't it that's something as Tiny as a as a you could get a million of them contains everything that you needed for this physical Journey everything your birth was in there the shape of your eye is in there your height is in there the color of your skin is in there the uh you know I hold the hair up on the pillow I say and I've had this experience several million times uh what held it in yesterday you know and you must ask that question like what held them up yesterday or why was it black yesterday and it's gray today where did that one come from or whatever and all of these changes are in this microscopic dot so what I'd like to do just for a few seconds here is to go back to take the microscopic Dot that is your Beginnings in which there's a future poll that is created every face and everybody and everything in here and everyone out there watching today in that one instant miraculous moment everything that you needed for this physical Journey was in there