I'm going to give you five ways to make the most out of every moment of your life. They're very simple ones. Then I'm going to explain each simple one. These actually are presented to you in a specific order because there's a broader story. Whenever I order principles, there's a broader story that's told in the collective understanding of them.
Number One of Five Ways to Make the Most out of Every Moment of Your Life: Say yes to yourself. Now, before you jump off and think, "Oh, that means I can go get the car!" That isn't what it means. You've been saying yes to desires that give you the fleeting sensation of being profitable, but that bankrupt you. No, saying yes to yourself means that I am going to make the most out of every moment. Because I now realize that every moment is an introduction to the yet unexplored depths of myself. That's what yes means. I'm going to say yes to what this moment wants to tell me about myself. Look, every moment -- this moment right now -- is talking to you, not just me. Every moment is trying to tell you something about yourself. How many of you have longed your whole life to be nothing but the center of conversation? Isn't it true? "I want to be the center! And if I can't do it socially, then I'll go home and have a beer and then I'll make the self the center of it anyway."
I'm telling you, you are the center of the conversation! You're just not in the right one. I'm telling you that life never stops telling you about... how many of you know what it means to go fishing with other people? I don't mean throw bait in the water. "So, uh, what do you think about me?" But you don't say it like that. You say, "Do you like me? Come on, do you like me a little?" And then, God help you if you say, "Yes." Why? Fishing, fishing, fishing -- fishing expeditions, because you want somebody basically to lie to you. You want somebody to tell you, "You know you are... you know how you think you are, you're all that." "Oh, thank God!" And you know they're lying. You know they're lying when they're talking to you, but you still fish. Life is telling you all the time about yourself. It never stops talking to you. The problem is you don't want to hear what life has to say. That's the truth. You want to hear it when it's saying, "What a wonderful day," when everything's bright and glorious. And the life it's showing you -- that's giving you these wonderful feelings about yourself, "Somebody loves you," "You've got some food on your plate, money in the bank."
But when life tells you something else, when life reveals to you other parts of yourself, you don't want anything to do with that conversation. But here's the key: I was out yesterday and I was looking around. And I asked the man I was with (who is a student), "How many notes do you think there are in the octave of God's life?" You know, like a piano - there are 88 notes, right? In an octave there's eight notes. How many notes do you think there are in the octave of God's life? How many do you think? And the answer is, there are as many notes as there are created forms. Every form sounds a note in you. When you look at it, every form, every energy (which is still a form) sounds out in you. Now, the beauty of this is (and I can never say it enough, because I think it's encouraging) there's no instrument in the universe like you, because you're one of the notes. So, that means that here's this infinite number of notes that can sound out in you, only in you, the way they sound.
Now you may not know the truth of this -- and God, I hope one day that you do, not as an intellectual concept but as the living instrument of that. That means that only you can experience the moment the way it's given. Which is, by the way, by perfect design. But the moment isn't really created for the you that you think you are. The moment is created for the Maker of the moment. And you're supposed to share in that life, in that moment, by receiving the vibration -- by receiving the impression; because that's how the moment communicates. The communication of this life is through impressions. But there's no impression without someone to be impressed, so it turns out to be one thing.
So, to say yes to yourself -- as the first way to make the most out of every moment of your life -- means that at this very moment, if I'm willing to, I am being given a certain kind of coin. Something has been made that I can harvest, because here I am at this point in time. Here is time passing. I can take something from this moment while the sun is shining -- meaning, as the revelation is occurring -- that no one else, that nothing else can, in the way that I can do it. And when you understand that, you have learned what it means to say yes to yourself. You've agreed to the true conscious exploration of your possibilities.
