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i have a very special personto introduce at this point who has had an incredibleinfluence, not only in my life, personally, and my family's lifeand in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. he's just a crusader. i mean, i hope youtake that right, brian. it comes from his heart andwhat he believes in terms of responsible living. and he's created this incredibleplace called hippocrates

institute in west palm beach,florida that has served many, many, hundreds of thousandsof people in their journeys to health and wellness. and, i just would like around of applause for one of the leaders in our industry, who has so graciously joinedus tonight, brian clement. [ applause ] dr. brian clement. it's nice to see some faces

that i'm familiar with,and some new faces. and, it's really a pleasureto launch off the docks of our own little refuges, andcome together as a community. how every single movement thathas ever made a difference in the human race beganis with community. we now number into themillions of people. although, at the low end,that are on living food. as i walked in tonight, one of my good friends handedme an article in time magazine,

a full page on raw food. i was interviewed last week by three major magazinesand newspapers. we are here, and weare going to grow, because truth cannotbe held back. so, give yourself a hand. it's also a pleasure that i'mworking with a lot of my friends that share the stage with me andi hate to be called leaders, i don't think that we'releaders, that the way that most

of us feel is that we'reco-developers in a new humanity. and i say that tongue incheek because i'm not sure if it's a new humanity,it's humanity once again. and so, we're reaquaintingourself with that. and we learn as much from youas we teach, we can assure you. and, tonight we're gonna startby showing you two films, and i'm gonna getup and speak to you, and try to restrain myirish tonight a little bit. and then we'll have afew questions and answers

and let you all goto bed and rest so we can have awonderful week this week. so, we'll start with the films. when i was thinkingtoday what i'd speak about i thought i wouldspeak to you about healing, and what that really means,at least in my perception, in the big context of healing. most people believethat it's a variety, if not an abundant amountof work, and difficulty,

and struggle, and hardship. and i've come to the conclusionthat, after almost forty years of work that it'srelaxation and release. that it has absolutelynothing to do with hardship. what we do is we collectdisorder throughout our life by not releasing. not allowing to fallto the wayside. and this happens because most of us have not visibly seenwhat we honor in our cultures

and honor in our societies. we honor struggle. we honor hardship. and what we must understandis that the persona that each of you carry with you doesnot have to be a persona of toughness, buta persona of love. our societies, our cultures,your mother and father, the educational systems,the religious systems, tell you that your worthcomes through your difficulty.

and i'm here to tell youtonight that your worth comes through your successesand your happiness. it's that simple. the only thing thatany of us have to share are thosethings we're elated with. recognize that. but, what we try toshare is our sufferage. isn't that amazing? it's really just totallyamazing to me, all the time.

i'm with my friends whoaren't quite doing what i do, and you should here thestories at this age. "my leg just fell off." and then, of course, the nextfriend has to outdo that one. "well, my two arms fell off." and then the third one says,"well, my eyeball, my left leg, and my arm, and another parti couldn't identify fell off." my father, this extraordinaryman that i'm just honored to have as a father, when i wasyoung would always have matches

with me on suffferage. he would say "well you onlyhave to walk one mile downtown in the snow to school; ihad to walk three miles up the rocky mountains-" "but dad, you grew up in newyork and new jersey." "well, it was likethe rocky mountains." how many of you have thatparent, raise your hand. so, as little girlsand little boys we look up at these honorablepeople, hopefully,

who are teaching ushow to view the world. teaching us what our valueis, what our worth is. wouldn't it be nice if yourdad and mom looked down at you when you were a child and said "i'm gonna be here onehundred percent of the time to help you have as much funas you possibly can always"? probably, your parentswould have been arrested. i'm sure of that. the neighbors would havereported your parents.

"do you know what thatfamily is doing over there? they're laughing all of thetime, they must be on drugs." "they're kissing all of thetime, they must be molesting." i'll never forget, one of my friends recently,a pretty popular guy. they can't complain much abouthim cause he's a good father, a good man, generally,and what one of the newspapers reportedwas quite interesting. they reported that what he woulddo is watch his daughters leave

the car and walk allthe way into the school, and he would not leave until thedaughters went into the door of the school, and they turnedaround and waved to the father. now, this was the worst thingthey could say about the guy. and i said: "isn't that aportrayl of humanity today?" that because somebodycares enough, loves enough, supports enough,that's the oddball. if the father dropped thechildren off, and sped off at a hundred miles an hourwould anything have been said?

so, we as people havegot to raise our honor. raise our values. raise our integrity levels. and the only way that we'regonna do that is not by thinking about it and believing that weshould be at a certain place, but working, working veryhard, every single day, to get to that place so wedon't have to work anymore. and, the only work is notgoing to be in healing. the work is going to beto learn what healing is.

every person i've seenget well and worked with who has gotten wellover the decades were people who were willing tolet go of everything that created the disorder. do you follow that? that's it. everything that createdthe disorder. and, all at oncethey found themselves with a giant breath of air.

big, deep, strong breath of air. and, when they couldbreathe, widely and largely, they could see widelyand largely. my friend, gabrielis gonna be working with you in the next week. please get up, be with him. he's going to takeyou to that place - help you get to that level. because the more we get intouch with that baby in us,

and we all came from that breaththe wider you're gonna see. the larger you're gonna see. and, the largeness gives us theability to see that everything that we think is so problematicis really a drop in an ocean. it is not a tidal waveabout ready to hit us. you know, it's amazing. i'll never forget,i was in he'eia, hawaii back about thirty yearsago, and there's a little museum in he'eia, how manyhave been there?

and that museum has picturesin it of the history of he'eia, and one of the most outstanding,probably the most outstanding, picture i've ever seenin my entire life was of people running with agiant tidal wave behind them. and, i looked at this,and i just stared at it for ten minutes, andi of course, like you, what went through my mind is'what did these poor people think when they saw the tidalwave hitting their village. matter of fact it engulfed andswallowed up the entire village

of he'eia, hawaii in those days. but, i went one step further,not just being shocked by the trauma, butwhat was a success. where there was one man thatliterally grabbed a door, and he was opening thedoor as a tidal wave hit. the door came off the hinges, and he rode the tidalwave and survived. so, every single person,basically, has the ability to go beyond even thewildest comprehension

of where you can be. and, if you can understand that then there'snothing that stops you. your limitationsare self-created. there's no question about that. you and i have worked,i still do, work very hard oncreating limits. and it's the other thingsthat we're not willing to be conscious about.

let's repeat this,so you understand it. our limits are what we choosenot to be conscious about. and every one of us pick limits. anyone here believeyou don't have limits? of course we do. but, the fact of the matteris there are few things that we shouldn'tlimit ourselves in. number one is self respect. that's what we alllack enough of.

self respect. never limit yourselfin self respect. and, how we get to that selfrespect is quite simple too. what we do is we look andacknowledge our daily success. everyday just look andacknowledge your daily success. what can that be? can it be something enormousthat would be on the front page of the new york times? or, would it be the fact thatyou lived with total honor,

and walked your talk,and followed through with yourlargest dream that day. whatever that dream would be. large dreams don'thave to be impressive. large dreams can be "i'llmake it through today and literally eat exactlywhat i know is good for me." that's a big success fora lot of people today. my god, you have thecommercial interest out there sucking your braintwenty four hours a day.

i mean, it's unbelievable. telling you what you should do. creating the stylesand the realisms - quote "realisms" i should say- and leading you by the nose down the little golden goldenpathway to their pockets. and that's it. another success would bethat you start to honor and realize the gift oflive in and of itself. we don't do this.

my god, what a gift life is. it's the enormous,unbelievable gift. look at where you'resitting right now. look at where you'resitting now. this is called coral atolls, does anyone know whata coral atolls is? coral atoll means that thesewere coral reefs that - an extraordinarygroup of life lived in these coral atollsat one point.

i've been diving formany, many years, and the only way icould describe it when i was a young guy andi started to talk about it and i said "it wasfantasia, but real." that's what it looks like. and these coral atolls with allthis abundant life literally pushed itsself over thousands,and hundreds of thousands, and millions of yearsto become land masses. and you're out in themiddle of the ocean.

what separates the gulfof mexico to our right, probably five minutewalk in that direction, and the atlantic ocean, a twosecond walk in this direction. and we're sitting out theretonight under the stars. with a moon that will be shiningbright during our stay here. with plam trees, with coconutson it, blowing in the breeze. and you and i thinkwe have problems? come on. the problemstems out of limitation, and limitation stems out of lackof self-esteem, and the only way

that that's corrected isacknowledging your successes. so that who you become areyour overwhelming successes, not your limitationsand perceived failures. do you follow? they did a study anumber of years ago on cancer it was areally interesting study, and this goes back to the1940s, where they realized that they were not helpinga whole lot of people. but, in those days it wasn't sovile because they used cobalt,

a very low form ofnuclear medicine. and, there were somepeople surviving because this nuclear medicinewasn't just completely devastating the wholcellular system and the immunity of the body. and they created thisnew form of chemotherapy that was gonna be theconquest of cancer, and literally got thebest salespeople - they went to the top companies

and asked them what thesalesmen were making and doubled their salaries and said "you're gonnabe the people we teach." brought them into the flock ofthe pharmaceutical industry, and actually had the believingthat they were the voices of medicine now - pharmaceuticalmedicine - that was going to now conquer cancer. and, these giftedsalespeople went out to all the universitycampuses

that taught medicineall over this country and around the world, andthey taught our young doctors and professors and got everyonefired up and excited about it. because the doctors, of course, felt bad that they reallycouldn't help people with cancer. and, now it wentinto their practices and into the hospitals, andwhen it was fully engaged, the new form of chemotherapy,which was a first step

into insanity with chemotherapy. for the first threeyears when they studied that the cancer rates andthe cancer death rates dramatically dropped. unlike the statistics that arebogus they're giving you today, by the way. they're doing that becausepeople are running very rapidly away from chemotherapy, sothey have to put spin doctors into medicine today, and tellyou that we're reducing it by,

woah, one half of a percent. but back then theyhad everyone believing that they were reallygonna help people, so for three years thedoctors themselves believed, they believed in what? the success. they portrayed it so wellhonesty and humbleness and humanity that it transmittedover to the patient. and the patient literallybelieved

in success enough to heal. now wasn't that amazing? by the fourth year it evenedout, and every single year, including now, 2006-2007,the cancer rates have grown without any stop, any halt,and we have new forms of cancer that are touching the youngestmembers of our society today that did not do so two, andthree, and four decades ago. so, success and healing aresynonymous also, aren't they? we always say 'wereyou successful?'

well, what does thatreally mean? did you accomplish your goal? that's all successmeans, isn't it? did you accomplish your goal. and unless you can stand upstraight and look somebody in the eye, you in themirror, and say 'yes, i've accomplished my goals,'you're gonna dishonor yourself. and you're gonna findgreater and larger ways to sabotage your lifeto prevent yourself

from being well and healing. everyone of us here are healing. there's not one ofus sitting here that are not healingremember that. what are we healing from? some of us have physicaldisorders. all of us have pyschologicaland emotional disorders. this week i had one ofthose rare times where one of the guests raised their handwhen i said 'does anyone here

in the room haveone hundred percent of your whole life figured out?' and this really funnycrazy lady raised her hand, and i said 'there's one nut.' whenever you really thinkyou have it all figured out, you're in trouble. and spiritually, we're alllost, i mean, you know, most of us got caught up inritual and rhetoric and process as we call it, notin the coconut

out there blowingin the wind is god. your body's cells, studyingthose alone, are remarkable. and what we now knowabout the cells are more remarkable everyday. everything i read about it, i'mlike a child with this stuff, i just can't get enough of it. and what we've got to understandis that there's nothing that will ever prevent us fromdoing anything we wish to do. and going as far,and as largely,

as we desire once we come to theconclusion that we're gifted. everyone of us are gifted. your struggle is in yourself,your struggle is not real. i'll never forget alittle boy that came to hippocrates backabout, oh, twenty years ago when we first moved down here. he was six years-old andhis mother and father - he had very severe cancerall through his body - and his mother andfather, as i would be,

shook and cried every timehe wasn't looking and it was so painful to watch, you know. as a parent, we deeplyunderstand that. and i'll never forget, i watchedthis for about a week and a half and i couldn't take anymore, so i said to the parents 'cani just speak to him alone? will you allow him to cometo the office with me alone?' they said 'sure.' and i looked at him, iplayed music at first,

and i just sat there and lookedat him for a while and i said to him 'okay, nowwe're gonna talk.' i said, 'i'm not your daddy.' and i said 'i'm yourfriend and picture me as one of your classmates.' i said, 'frankly, i'd like torun with you and jump around and play on the swings and allthat stuff, but i'm an adult, and they gave me a title,so i can't do that anymore, but i'm just like you, andi want you to talk to me.

what do you think?' and he said 'i'm so sadfor my mother and father. i'm so sad for mymother and father. they're really worriedthey're gonna lose me.' and i said 'are yousad to be sick?' he said, 'oh, no, not all.' he said 'because beingsick has made me see more than i've ever seen.' this was a little tiny boy.

(audience) how old? six. a little tiny boy. 'i've seen more thani've ever seen.' and he said 'but whati see that is most sad, is that i'm hurtingmy mother and father and they love me so much.' isn't that something? and i said what dowe have to do? we have to get to apoint of almost death,

or desparation, beforewe awaken. you know, it's reallyshocking, isn't it sometimes? and when you hear these prolificthings from just a little baby - a little child - andyou see the fumbling, and the found thouughtsthat we have. it's ironic, it really is. it's silly. silly in the greatestsense of being silly. not comical, silly.

we as a human race need to healmore than ever at this point. we are presently in a positionwhere humanity will not be able to survive unlessconsciousness raises rapidly. where we sit on this coralatoll will be underwater in the next thirty years. possibly twenty years. hippocrates healthinstitute will be underwater in the next twentyto thirty years. one third of the populationof china will be underwater

and these are not possibilities,these are realities at this point, and the only waythat we're gonna prevent this from happening is raise ourconsciousness, and what? let go. it's about letting go. it's not about working hard, wework - we can work, work, work, work, work, work, and we'regonna create more problems when we work. what do we have to let go of? we have to let go ofevery single thing

that has ever madeour life hard. and many times, in our cultures,that's our comfort zones. when we're so comfortablewith what we do. i sit here and preach toyou, i drove down in a car, how many of you drove in a car,or flew in a plane to get here? that's our comfort zones. how many of us have houses that are much largerthan we really need. do you follow me?

and these are the things, it'seither going to be that nature and god will in factclean up everything if we're not willing to. gave us a free will. we're very capable of doing it. just letting go. releasing. or, it will be resolvedin one way or another. and starting with very simplethings like your food choices,

as our good friend,john robbins, taught us. have an extraordinary impacton the environment today. not a minor one, but an extraordinaryimpact on the environment. you also have to understand that the way we use thingsreally also portrays our success or our failures. the way we use things. the way we use our voice,the way we use our mind,

the way we use our time,the way we use our thoughts, the way we use ourcommunication. how much time iswasted in your life? that's the question. how much time do you notcontribute by being fulfilled because the onlytrue contribution any of you can make isthrough fulfillment. remember that. your greatness is at themoment you are being fulfilled.

there's no greatnesswithout fulfillment. and that all is fueledby passion. do you understand that? so we must find inour life those things that we are impassioned todo to live, to be fulfilled so we can contribute atthe largest level at a time where we humans have to giveback more than we've ever, ever, ever, ever givenback in our history. as a matter of fact, whatwe're doing is taking care

of generation aftergeneration after generation of unconsciousnessat this moment. it's not just yourunconsciousness, and our parents, and theirparents, and their parents, but it goes back to thefirst unconscious people that ever lived. probably, they werethe first people who ever lived were unconscious. the minute they started to askfor more than they needed is

when the unconsciousnessstarted. i often laugh aboutthis and think about it, in our youth we spend all of our time collecting,you ever notice that? we collect, we collectthis, we collect that. as we get to be my ageand older, we let go. we keep giving things away. and, i'll never forget,i had an aunt that was just this reallyfunny, little irish lady.

she had never been toireland, but she had a brogue. how about that one? and she was about four footfive, i was really frightened of her when i was three yearsold, you know, little gerty. 'oh, hey. how ya doing there? how do ya doin?' she'd say. and i'd look up and she'd havethese wild teeth and she lived to about a hundredand some years-old.

and gerty, when she was aboutninety five years-old, five, six, seven yearsbefore she died, started to give things away. and then i realized she wasn'tthis scary person anymore because what she wasdoing was being fulfilled. and probably in my life shewas the first person i ever saw living at a human level. cause everyone elsewas collecting. my poor parents were collecting,my grandparents were collecting,

everyone i knew was collecting. she was giving. 'here ya go, take it. it's unbelievably nice, i'vehad this for a hundred years. take it. i wanna give it to ya.' two weeks ago, i was in new yorkand i was honored to be invited into a hassidic family's home. and the father, who was ninetyone years-old had been married for sixty seven years,was laying in bed

in the dining area of the house. the house was drapedwith beautiful art from all over the world. religious art, and other art,it was just tasteful art. and there was his bride, yes, his bride after sixty sevenyears sitting several feet from him just like ayoung girl who was married with her eyes wide, lookingat her - her husband there. and i love this man, he cameto us a number of years ago

at hippocrates, iknow the whole family. and many of them haveturned their lives around and saved their lives fromhaving honor and letting go. and all the thingswe spoke about. and i went over and i spoketo hiim, he's a philosopher, and he started toquote to me you know, some of the old testament. and then at the end of that hesaid you probably don't wanna hear it in that way, so letme tell you what that meant.

and it meant, you know, youshould live fully every minute of your life because i have. and he said, i'm looking up,and he pointed up right here, two weeks ago, and he said isee god's hands getting closer to me every single day. it's coming down, i'm seeing it. the fingers, the top ofthe fingers he described, he said i actually see theway the finger looks now, and i see the nailand he said, you know,

i'm about ready toput my hand up. he said, because everysingle day i've been really, really gifted and blessesd. he said, i'm gonna go. and he looked over to hiswife, who was sitting there with her eyes wide with nowtears in it and he said, but i don't wanna leave her. i've stayed here muchlonger than i should, but look at how beautifulshe is.

you know, touching. humanity. there's a manthat lived a life of honor. i got a call just this weekat seven in the morning from his daughter, who i love, and she said daddied the other day. and at the funeral the eldergrandchild got up and spoke about granddad and told a story about when he cameto hippocrates. his wife, the bride, when shewas in her eighties came to us

because she couldn't walk, shewas in a wheelchair and had been in that wheelchair formonths after months and was told she wasgonna next lose her legs because she had diabetes and allof this stuff was gonna happen to her and, oh, 'and we haveto put you on drugs the rest' and her childrencaptured her and drove her down to hippocrates and puther there and now she was there for a number of weeks andhe missed her so much. so the grandson go him in thecar and drove him all the way

down to hippocratesand they got there at two o'clock in the morning. and we used to lockthe gate at night. how many who werethere in those days? we put the gate around. and the grandson told this story at the funeral just thislast week and said 'i said to grandpa, we've gotto go to the hotel up the street and come back.'

he said 'no.' he said 'grandmom's in there. i'm not gonna comeback tomorrow. my wife's in there.' and this guy who was abouteighty some years-old at that point climbed overthe fence to see his wife. do you have thatlevel of passion? do you have that levelof fulfillment going on? do you have that level ofrelease going on in your life?

that you say to yourself,'there's nothing wrong. everything's okay.' and if you do, you're well. and if not, you're not well. and being well is ourbirthright, it's not something that we should be hoping for. i hate that word, 'hope.' hope. it's a hoplessword is what it is. it's something we shouldanticipate, expect, and create.

if you're not creating a realitythat's completely smooth, what's up? or do you like rough becauseyou need what we spoke about earlier thisevening, the persona. do you need the rough persona? here's who i am. i'm a struggle. i'm like everyone else. i'm a pain.

i'm suffering. or, 'hey, everything's okay. and when everything's okay,you authentically become who you've been meant- who you're meant to be your entire lifeand now you have a life that is absolutely worth living. sure, eating sproutsare part of that, because eating sprouts cangive you the fuel for it. but that's not where it stops.

that may be one of thesteps where it begins. where it really starts isin evaluating those things that are stoppingyou from being happy. you follow that? so as we start thisweek this is a time where the breeze canblow, and the wind can go through your ears and take allthis stuff and leave it behind, matter of fact, on friday ofthis week you should all go in the water andgo under the water

and just release all that stuff. the ocean will suck itup and take it away. and then you'll have thiswhole head that's open. so look at those thingsthat are stopping you from being happy this week andrelease them as we sit here. authenticity has everythingto do with one absolute thing. and that authenticity hasto do with your genuine joy. genuine joy. not (mock laughter) 'oh,they had fun for a second.

let's time it.' was it two seconds? three seconds. it's ha ha ha ha. [ laughter ] laughing. opening. freeing yourself. i see some of thegreat minds at times. one of the guys i like towatch is robin williams.

how many of you likerobin williams? you know why youlike robin williams? he doesn't have any limits. robin williams is anything hewants to be at any given minute without any hesitation. he never stops and says'what's my persona?' he becomes what turns himon at any given moment. now, wouldn't that benice if you could do that? of course it would be.

what most of you are thinkingabout is 'how will i look? how will i talk? how will i think? how will i -' howabout let's just 'okay, this is who i am this minute.' and next minute you'resomebody else. the marx brothers. how many of you watchthe marx brothers? now i'm giving you some examples

of what we're talkingabout here. i used to watch his show,groucho, in the fifties. how many of you rememberthe groucho marx show? if you've never seen it -yeah this is your life - if you've never seen it,you have to get reruns of this and look at it. he was so quick and sofunny and so absolutely without limit it was justshockingly brilliant. any given moment when youlisten to this, and sometimes,

as you may remember, theyset up the interviews and they would bring people on with these extremelystrange stories, like the oddest storiesyou'd ever see. 'i have a bird livingin my house and i fell in love with him.' you know these weird, weird- and this is the fifties, we're not talkingabout the sixties. and he sit therewith a cigar talking

like this the wholetime 'is that right, you fell in love a bird, huh?' i was really young andi'd be listening to him and saying that's real. what i'm doing here in myhouse, that's not real. that's real, whathe's doing there. we call it comedy. reality is comedy to us. and reality is sad to us.

what really goes on inour minds is really silly when you think about it. i'll never forget, irecently got through my head about fifteen years ago whatdoctors do with the serious. they always say 'youhave a serious disorder. serious.' once they putthe serious on that, now i don't mean the radio. 'it's a serious disorder. and the always say[ lowers voice ] 'serious.'

well, at that point youbetter start acting very, very, very sad. that's the starting pointof ultimate saddness. you have to be extremely sad. and you walk aroundat that point and tell everyonehow sad you are. 'you know how seriousmy disease is? it's so serious, the doctor'sonly giving me eight weeks to live.'

and now the whole familyand you're community and the co-workers they startto write you off at that point. they start to literallyrelease you at that stage. they start to say to youthings like 'remember back when we were kids howmuch fun we had together? you have a serious disease,so we can't have fun anymore.' i'll never forget a young ladycame to us in her thirties from flagstaff, arizona. she was a christian girl and shehad a small christian church

with 284 members. and all but two of the memberscould speak and every single one of the members when they found out she had metastasized breastcancer literally talked to her. the little kids, two andthree years-old, talked to her and said goodbye to her. 'and when you go to see god,tell god how much i love him.' and by the time this poor womangot to us, in her thirities, as she believed thatshe could heal herself,

she was completely distraughtand broken and confused. cause here she was, a christian. and christians are told, atleast i think they're told, i was told this, at onepoint, that, in fact, that faith will takeyou through anything. 'god is always there,don't worry about a thing.' that god will carryyou through everything. and when she got into my office,this is the second day she came to hippocrates, shestarted to cry and she said

to me 'i finally realizethat all of those people, including myself, hadabsolutely no faith. that once a man said i was goingto die, everyone else listened to the man, theydidn't listen to god.' and that was verypoignant for me. i never quite gotit as clear as that. fifteen years ago i got that. that's what we do. we literally have thesemega-believe systems

that we fall far short of. now, is the rule,is the law true? of course. anything is possible. there's nothing that's evergoing to stop you at any time. that's definite. nothing will ever stopyou at any given time. unless you allow it to stop you. and once you give up onanything that you desire

to do you are living ina subhuman existence. you will get exactlywhat you're asking for. it will come to you assure as i'm standing here. every single time i or you fallshort of doing what it takes to being fulfilled we'regonna get exactly what we're asking for. i'll never forget when we firstmoved hippocrates from boston. in boston it was the peakof the real estate market and we sold this extraordinarybrownstone on the corner

of commonwealth avenueand exeter street, the finest property you couldget in boston, other than up on the hill wherethe brahmans lived. and in fact, we came downwith a load of money, we gave anne wigmorehalf the money and we thought 'this is great,we're gonna be perfectly fine, and then i met: thebuilding department. another group of happypeople like the doctors. 'this is very serious.'

i knew right away as soon asthey said 'this is serious.' 'sure, we'll let you open,soon as you build a road.' what did i know aboutbuilding roads? ' how muchis a road?' 'half a million dollars. and the only way you'regonna open is build a road.' i said you're kidding. so i went home at night and allthis stuff i'm telling you now it fell to the wayside.

i was shaking at home at night and then basically we got atypical florida contractor, those of you thatdon't live in florida, let me give you some insight. after everyone has becomea loser, every other place on the planet earth and theycan't be good contractors, they come to florida. this lovely little roley poleyguy comes over and he's - becomes my friend and i'm naive,

i never did anythinglike this before. and he builds all of this stuffand then the county comes out and says to me 'showme wherethe pipes are.' and you know what this guy did? he literally put pipes thereburied up and put pipes there, but didn't put hundreds andhundreds of feets of pipe. and i paid him forall of the pipe. so now the secondthing is i have to give a half a milliondollars for a road

and i also have no pipes,so no water going to any - or sewage going to any ofthe houses at hippocrates. now i go to look at the bankand the money is almost gone. boy, what a dillema this was. so for the first timein my business life, not my personal life,i had to apply some of the rules i'm notrying to explain to you. release. because, man did i havea lot i was carrying with that. a lot i was carrying with that.

and what i said, very simply, to myself 'if what we're doingis purely right and good, and my motivation is what iperceive my motivation is this is going to work. and finally, the first peoplecame on august the ninth. now, i assumed we were athirty year- old organization at that point, that as soonas we told people we were in west palm beach not inthe middle of cold, cloudy, and snowy boston, we'dhave people flocking down.

little did i realize that manyof them would actually land at logan airport, assumingwe were still in boston. so this was one of thefirst dillemas we have. i'd say 'well, we're at theairport trying to get you, and they'd say 'well,what's the van look like?' and we'd say, 'well,the van's white and it's got thishippocrates sign on the side.' and they'd say 'it's not here.' and after like ten minutes, we'dsay, 'well, where are you?'

'we're at logan airport.' well, after this happenedseveral times i started to realize it wasn'tas easy as running. and then something veryinteresting happened. what happened is that anolder lady came to me, rose. rose had been teachingyoga for sixty years. who knew what yogawas sixty years ago? this woman was teachingit for sixty years. and she sat me downand she said 'you know,

i see you're havingproblems here.' i said 'yeah.' 'that's your problem, you seeyour having problems here.' i said 'what areyou talking about?' she said 'you knowwhat i'm talking about. there's no problems here. what you doing, whatyou doing there, is it good what you're doing? or are you a shiyster?'

she said. you gentilesknow what a shyster is? and i said 'well, i believewhat we're doing is right.' she said, 'okay, if whatyou're doing is right, you go up tomorrow, younever ever get sad again, you never ever, everthink anything negative. if you do, you're gonnago out of business. and she said 'to topit off, i'll be happy if you go out of business. because who the hellshould come to you

and be with a sad person?' rose taught me somethingvery well, right? this is where we have to be. we have to be in aposition to realize that who you say you are, youare at any minute, period. it's not who you think youare, who you aspire to be. if you're saying you canhelp, you've got to help. or stop doing it. if you're saying you'rea happy individual,

you've gotta be happy. or stop saying you're happy. if you say you wanna be healthy. become healthy. or stop pretendingto be healthy. and that's the messagei give you tonight: everything is reallyabout release. it's not about work,it's not about effort, it's not about hard, it'snot about any of that.

it's all about successthat you've motivated in your own life from acknoweldging every singleday those things that you love. okay, so i will open for somequestions and some comments if anyone has it,and maybe we can put, is there a secondmicrophone out there? we can - okay, if anyonehas a question stand up and we'll speak very loud andvery, very clear at that point. anyone have any thoughts or anyquestions with what we've said?

okay, well then, what we'll dois we'll say a prayer together and start this week,and have some fun. so, let's close oureyes, take a deep breath, till you feel it right downin the bottom of your feet. close the eyes. another very, very deep breath. give us the strengthto free ourself. to become a giant bowl thatwe can fill with those things that give us the biggestblessings and the biggest joy.

amen. go and sleep and have fun. be well.