0:00:00 - 0:00:20 This is a message for young people. I have a lot to say to you things that you won't hear anywhere else, things that I'm confident are more important than anything you will hear from anywhere else. Those are big claims and I apologize that I don't have time at present to prove them to you. Nor do I have 0:00:19 - 0:00:41 the opportunity right now to tell you everything that I could. I am in the process of laying out these things in books. But while I'm finishing those, I want to tell you what I can fit into a short video. These are things that you can begin to think about and act on now. They'll make an enormous difference 0:00:40 - 0:01:03 in your future. Most importantly, in helping you avoid unnecessary suffering and unnecessary mistakes, some of which would permanently limit the good you can receive and do in this life. I hope you listen carefully. I hope you replay this. I hope you ponder on this and I hope you share it with your friends 0:01:02 - 0:01:30 . Young people today are suffering from a lack of meaning and there's a reason for this. Uh Actually, there are two reasons and one of those reasons is not because the world is magically devoid of reason of meaning of purpose. So which of the two reasons? It is, it depends on the person for one group 0:01:29 - 0:01:49 , the larger group, the lack of meaning comes as a result of believing things about life that rob a person of meaning. I won't waste time going over what those are. It's its own lengthy discussion, but suffice it to say that most young people believe those things. But here's the other reason, the reason 0:01:49 - 0:02:11 you need to hear if you're watching this, the other reason is that on earth right now are tens of thousands of young people who are not like anyone who has ever lived on this planet. At least not in those kinds of numbers. Let me ask you a question throughout all history. How many people did something 0:02:10 - 0:02:28 with their lives that affects you today? You probably think that that's quite a high number. If you've never thought about this before, it turns out out of the billions and billions of people who have ever lived. If you ask yourself how many were necessary to create the life, you know, today, the answer 0:02:28 - 0:02:52 might surprise you. If you list everything that makes up the modern world and everything that led to it, you'll come up with a list that maybe has between 1000 and 10,000 people who had a part in that. That's it. So that's shocking enough to consider. But it's true and you can figure that out for yourself 0:02:52 - 0:03:18 pretty easily by doing what I just described. Now, I want you to realize that all discovery, all creation, all innovation, all good comes from God. Like all of us, in the case of these people, it was God's light within them that led to their accomplishments, whether they knew it or not. Now, I want you 0:03:18 - 0:03:47 to suppose that what I'm saying is true. Suppose then that right at this moment, God has sent to earth, the spirit of tens, the spirits of tens of thousands of people who are like that. What I'm saying is suppose for a moment that on the earth now there are tens of thousands of people of similar caliber 0:03:46 - 0:04:11 and actually far greater enlightenment as the 1000 to 10,000 who are responsible for everything of value that, you know, the 1000 to 10,000, most enlightened people who ever lived. And I'm telling you that what I'm telling you is true. There are tens of thousands of people like that that are here right 0:04:10 - 0:04:40 now. They're alive right now. I want you to imagine for a moment that you were one of those people. Let me ask you, would you have any idea of anything I just told you? You wouldn't. So what would your life be like in the absence of understanding that? Well, I'll tell you, you would find yourself filled 0:04:39 - 0:05:09 at all times with a deep non-specific yearning for what you wouldn't know. But you'll look around and you'd feel a deep visceral at a deep visceral level that there has to be much more to life than this. What else you would have discovered at a very young age that other people are not like you, it would 0:05:09 - 0:05:31 take more time for this to develop fully. But here's a sampling of the things that you would feel along the way. You would notice that you're aware of things that the people around you are not aware of. What do I mean, in most situations, you'd realize that you had a better idea of what was going on 0:05:30 - 0:05:56 cause effect what other people were feeling what they were saying and doing and why they were than anyone else involved, even if you were a young child and there were adults present, you would notice that you're not free to be yourself around others. When you say what you're really thinking, people would 0:05:55 - 0:06:19 be overwhelmed and uncomfortable because what you're really thinking at any time is deeper and more intense than what they ever think at any time. You will notice that you feel more deeply than other people feel. You invest your heart and soul into what you do, whatever it is you're doing. And that means 0:06:19 - 0:06:45 that you get hurt more deeply and more often than others because of all this and more you learn at a young age that you have to hold back who you really are and pretend to be as shallow, as stupid, as aimless as everyone else or else suffer the consequences, some of which you have repeatedly already 0:06:44 - 0:07:09 tasted. Most importantly, you have felt a deep responsibility in all situations in which you find yourself, whether anyone expected it of you or not. You'll have a deep sense of duty to those around you. Even when you don't know them well, and even when no one else expects you to, because you realize 0:07:08 - 0:07:37 that you can see what they can't see and you can do what they can't do or what they won't do. I could go on, but I don't need to. Because if you're one of the people for whom I'm making this video, you're already wondering how it is that I know these things because if you're one of these people, these 0:07:36 - 0:08:01 are things that you've never told anyone and things which you probably can't even put into words so well, even if you tried, don't worry about how I know this for now. Instead just use it as evidence that I might know about what I'm talking about. And that maybe you should take seriously what I'm about 0:08:00 - 0:08:30 to tell you. I want you to consider a different perspective than what you have so far in life and what others have invited you to consider. I want to invite you to radically change the perspective you've had so far and consider that you are not a weirdo that you are not some kind of freak that you are 0:08:30 - 0:09:00 not less valuable than those around you. I want you to understand and believe three things. One, you are not alone. I hope I've already given you proof of that, but it's not just me. If you're believing what I'm saying, there are tens of thousands of people on this planet right now who are just like 0:08:59 - 0:00:00 you. Number two, I want you to believe that you were born for today. I'll need more time to show this to you. But for now, we'll leave it at that. Number three. I want you to believe that who you are and who you will become are extremely valuable. Again, I'll have to show this to you in, in greater, 0:00:00 - 0:09:53 to a greater extent at another time. But for now, I want to close this out by giving you some advice to protect you from decisions that would impede you from achieving the purpose for which you were born, which includes importantly, attaining the fulfillment of that deep yearning inside of you. So first 0:09:53 - 0:10:20 off, I would counsel you not to buy the lies of modern culture. These are ideas from people who are not like you that will lead you to be a lot less of what you could be. You're not like the people who came before you and you're not like the people who are around you that difference. It's not a sign 0:10:20 - 0:10:44 that there's something wrong with you. It's evidence that there's something right with you because there's something very wrong with the world today. You're on a path to a treasure long sought for throughout all generations of human history. But you're the only generation who has access to it. You need 0:10:44 - 0:11:16 to find out more about that treasure. You need to orient your whole life in full belief that what your heart is telling you exists actually exists. Now that feeling that yearning, it's God's voice calling to you. It's God's voice giving you evidence that what you're hoping for is possible and it's an 0:11:15 - 0:00:00 invitation for you to discover the path to it. It's not easy. You'll have to prioritize everything in your life to developing that desire inside of you, to amplify it when the tendency is to run from it. But to turn into it, to face it and to amplify it and to find the path that will lead you to it, 0:00:00 - 0:12:20 to its fulfillment. While the feeling within you is from God, your current ideas about what will get you there or probably not. However they are whatever they consist in there, incomplete at best and likely incorrect in a lot of ways, were born with that divine yearning, but we're not born with the roadmap 0:12:19 - 0:12:50 to get us to its fulfillment. So where will you find the directions? So many important decisions have to be made before you've had time to learn the full measure of their consequences but the directions exist and God knows them. So seek God. If you don't believe in God yet, I would invite you to start 0:12:50 - 0:13:17 there, not to invite you to believe in Him, so to speak. But to consider that just as your experience in this life is obviously different from those around you. Perhaps what you consider is Christianity or religion. Perhaps what's branded is that and practice generally is that is far different from something 0:13:17 - 0:13:51 that exists but isn't known or experienced by many. Maybe what is uh experienced and popularized by the majority is very far from the real thing. From the effectual thing. Part of the way that God will speak to you is through using things and people in your life. It's a vital part of how He answers your 0:13:51 - 0:14:27 prayers. He gave you eyes ears, a brain and he expects you to use them the best way to tune your ability to notice and respond to those things. And people around you is to first turn inward. A lot could be said about this. But I'll consolidate all this in just two points. One is learn to integrate, honestly 0:14:26 - 0:14:57 , integrate everything, you know about the best you can imagine into how you feel, how you think and what you do. If you orient your whole life in that alignment towards improvement, towards the best you can imagine, you will find yourself in a fundamental shift in how you think feel and act. But there's 0:14:56 - 0:15:23 a synergy with that. Uh I'm not trying to get too metaphysical. I don't mean it that way, but you will find that you see and feel and think and act more like how you imagine yourself to be than you ever have before. You'll feel more like yourself than you ever have. The second point in turning inward 0:15:23 - 0:15:54 is that you need to learn to dance to the music in your heart. Um I can't lay out what I mean by that, but I wrote a chapter about it in a book called Men are that they might have Joy Google will probably take you there. But um you can get a free PDF of the book and a free MP3 audio book at upward thought.blogspot.com 0:15:51 - 0:16:20 . There's also uh print copies for sale at print cost on Amazon. So the first step is to turn inward. The second step is to find people who know more about these things than you do. And that's not going to be easy. But if you're watching this, you've already found one on this topic. I want to invite 0:16:20 - 0:16:43 you to read a book I wrote called Through Faith Again, Google will probably take you there. If you Google through Faith, Robert Smith. Again, the free PDF and audio is available on the blog, print cost copies on Amazon. And that book in that book, you'll find a paradigm for finding and obtaining outcomes 0:16:43 - 0:17:10 of increasing value. But those two books aren't gonna tell you everything you need to know, you'll just find in them more than you'll find anywhere else right now. But beyond that, in general, I'd like to, to advise you to stop looking at the majority for your decisions, for what you value and for who 0:17:10 - 0:17:38 you value for what you're doing and for why you're doing it, pay attention to people you have access to who have obtained what you seek for. If you can find one, do what they did, talk to them and find out, you need to understand that you're hunting for people like yourself. You're not just fishing for 0:17:38 - 0:17:59 anyone. And the same is true for things in situations as it is for people doing just whatever everyone else does is not going to be enough. It's gonna lead you exactly to where they are, which is not where you want to be. This is true of every decision in your life. It's true of how you spend your time 0:17:59 - 0:18:20 . It's true of who you spend your time with. It's true of every social relationship, every romantic relationship and even every family relationship. You're looking for people who have done what you're seeking to do. And you're also, you need to pay attention to people who have failed to find what you're 0:18:19 - 0:18:47 looking for and don't do what they do or did. Now, above all, this is my final point. I want to implore you to avoid what I call, placeholders. Placeholders are, uh, things that you think for a time are what you're looking for. But that you've realized are not what you're looking for. Don't spend your 0:18:47 - 0:19:16 mind, your heart, your time or your money on things and people that, you know, can't satisfy that yearning within you, you'll be tempted beyond what most people are to do this as a way of easing the pain within you. The pain of knowing that something could exist but not having it. Believe me, when I 0:19:16 - 0:19:42 tell you that at best placeholders will stop you in the path to finding what will actually fulfill what you seek. They waste your limited resources on what you know, will not fulfill that. In many cases, these things will distract you to the point that you won't even see what you're looking for if it 0:19:42 - 0:20:11 were to pass right in front of you. And in some cases, placeholders even temporarily entertaining them will permanently disqualify you from what you seek. There are things and people that you can choose that will derail your ability to obtain what you've been shown in your heart might exist. I've told 0:20:10 - 0:20:26 you things of great value here. This is a short video and I hope you review it and take it seriously and also that you share it with those, you know, would appreciate it.