To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
Everything that we want is downstream. . . And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.
When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.
So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.