The following article is worth an infinity of pills pushed as miracle cures. The solution to your problems is primarily rooted in a spiritual solution. This isn’t some really esoteric statement – really, just simply that you can create a solution.
I’ve listened to the clip below MANY TIMES – it’s helped me in hard time and in good times. I always know that I can “Wave my magic hand” and create the world to be more beautiful, see more opportunities, and chances where others would not.
It’s a great chance to hear Ron talk in his own voice. There’s so much wisdom packed in these few minutes. Rather than hear from me, check out the video:
BELOW IS A ROUGH TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VIDEO (Made with Grok) – to get the full real text, get it from the book A New Slant on Life:
Is It Possible to be Happy? (By L. Ron Hubbard)
A great many people wonder whether or not happiness even exists in this modern rushing world. Very often an individual can have a million dollars he can have everything his heart apparently desires and is still unhappy.
We take the case of somebody who has worked all his life he’s worked hard he’s raised a big family he’s looked forward to that time of his life when he at last could retire and be happy and be cheerful, have lots of time to do all the things he wanted to do. And then we see him after he’s retired and is he happy? No he’s sitting there thinking about the good old days when he was working hard.
Our main problem in life is happiness.
The world today may or may not be designed to be a happy world. It may or may not be possible for you to be happy in this world and yet nearly all of us have the goal of being happy and cheerful about existence.
And then very often we look around at the world around us and say “well nobody could be happy in this place.” We look at the dirty dishes in the sink and the car needing a coat of paint and the fact that we need a new gas heater we need a new coat we need new shoes or we just like to have better shoes and say well how could anybody possibly be happy when actually he can’t have everything he wants. He is unable to do all the things he’d like to do and therefore this environment doesn’t permit a person to be as happy as he could be.
Well I’ll tell you a funny thing a lot of philosophers have said this many, many times but the truth of the matter is that all happiness you’ll ever find lies in you.
Remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day and it was a very, very beautiful day you looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. 25 years later you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers they’re wilted. The day isn’t a happy day well what’s changed? You know they are the same flowers it’s the same world. Something must have changed, well probably it was you.
Actually a little child actually derives all of his pleasure in life from the grace he puts upon life he waves a magic hand and turns all manner of interesting things into being out in the society. Where does he do this? He goes down he looks at the cop here’s this big strong brute of a man riding this iron Steed up and down. Boy he’d like to be a cop yes sir he’d sure like to be a cop. 25 years later he looks at that cop riding up and down checking his speedometer and says dog gone these cops. Oh what’s changed here? Has the cop changed? Nope. Just the attitude toward the cop
One’s attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one’s living. You know you don’t have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact but sometimes it needs to be pointed out again. That life doesn’t change so much as you.
The day when you stop building your own environment when you stop building your own surroundings. When you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty. Things cease to be magical things cease to be beautiful. Well maybe you’ve just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.
You know other people seek happiness in various ways. They seek it hectically, it’s as though it’s some sort of a mechanism that exists, it’s made up. Maybe it’s a little machine, maybe it says something that’s parked in a cupboard or maybe happiness is down at the next corner. Maybe it’s someplace else they are looking for something. Well the odd part of it, is the only time they’ll ever find something that’s when they put it there first.
Now this doesn’t seem very creditable but it is quite true. Those people who have become unhappy about life are unhappy about life solely and completely because life has ceased to be made by them.
Here we have the single difference in a human being we have that human being who is unhappy miserable and isn’t getting along in life who is sick who doesn’t see brightness. Life is handling, running, changing, making, him and here we have somebody who’s happy was cheerful, who is strong and finds there is something worth doing in life. What do we discover in this person? We find out that he is making life.
Now there’s actually a single difference: are you making life, or is life making you? And when we go into this, we find out that a person has stopped making life because he himself has decided that life cannot be made. Some failure, some small failure, maybe not graduating with the same class. Maybe that failure that had to do with not marrying quite the first man or woman who came along and seemed desirable. Maybe the failure of having lost a car or just some minor thing in life started this attitude. A person looked around one day and said “well I’ve lost” and after that life makes him. He doesn’t make life anymore.
Well this would be a very dreadful situation if nothing could be done about it. But the fact of the matter is: it’s the easiest problem of all the problems man faces. Changing himself and changing the attitudes of those around him. it’s very, very easy to change somebody else’s attitude. Yet you are totally dependent of other people’s attitudes.
Somebody’s attitude toward you may make or break your life. Did ever occur to you that your home holds together probably because of the attitude the other person has toward you? Well so there’s two problems here: you have to change two attitudes: one, your attitude towards somebody else and two, their attitude toward you.
Well are there ways to do these things? Yes, fortunately there are.
For many many many centuries man has desired to know how to change the mind and condition of himself and his fellows. Actually man hadn’t accumulated enough information to do this up to relatively few years ago. But we’re living in a very fast-paced world we’re living in a world where magic is liable to occur at any time and has and now understands a great many things about the universe he lives in which he never understood before and amongst the things which he now understands is the human mind
the human mind is not an unsolved problem 19th century psychology did not solve the problem that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been solved
in modern times the most interesting Miracles are taking place all across this country and across the other continents of Earth what do these Miracles consist of they consist of people becoming well it consists of people who run happy becoming happy once more it consists of abolishing the danger inherent in many of the illnesses and in many of the conditions of man and yet the answer has been with man all the time man has been able to reach out and find this answer but perhaps man himself had to change perhaps he had to come up into modern times to find out that the physical Universe was not composed of demons and ghosts to outlive his superstitions to outlive the ignorance of his forebearers perhaps he had to do everything including invent the atom bomb before he could find himself well he is pretty well mastered the physical Universe now the physical universe is to him now rather upon he can do many things with it and having conquered that he can now conquer himself
thank you
the truth of the batteries he has carpeted himself Scientology came about because of man’s increased knowledge of energy Man became possessed of more information about energy than he had ever had before in all of his history and amongst that he came into possession of information about the energy which is his own mind
the body is an energy mechanism naturally a person who cannot handle energy could not handle a body he would be tired he would be upset he’d be unhappy as he looks all around him he finds nothing but energy
a great deal about energy feel himself the energy that nadines think the energy that was himself and the space which surrounded him of course would know himself and that in the final Essence has been his goal for many thousands of years to know himself Scientology has made it possible for him to do so
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