68 Who Do You Think You Are?
Have a blast; you might not make it till tomorrow. You might say, I ain’t
getting in no plane because they crash too much, but you could be driving
down the street and a plane could crash into your car and kill you. You
don’t want to rationalize anything more than God is Love and you’re
part of that. You get to be this continuing explosion of energy and positivity
if you want to be. You can get there by not lying to yourself.
Who are you? Ask you who you are. Ask yourself. And if you
know who you are, then everything just gets to be easier. The way you
treat other people gets easier. Every thing gets easier when you are truthful
with yourself. I don’t maintain that any of this is right. I’m just saying
that this is what I’ve been doing. This is what’s been working for me.
Another thing I would recommend is Agape. Way before I saw
The Secret, I saw Michael Beckwith. He was one of those eight things
that happened to me. People were talking to me about Agape on Venice
Beach fifteen years ago. I’m talking about teenagers, 12-year-olds, 10-
year-olds would come up to me after my show in Venice Beach and say,
“You would love my church. It’s called Agape. Do you know what that
means?” I’d say “no.” And they’d say, “It means all encompassing love.”
I blew that off, I never paid any attention to it, but I was on a
search for churches. Every time I would see some place on Sunday, where
there were black people standing outside in suits talking to each other,
I’d pull over and go inside and see what they were talking about. I was in
Agape for eight minutes, and I knew that I was at home. There was no
two ways about it. This was before Michael even started speaking. He
created such an atmosphere of love and energy in that place. You can
just walk in, and it’s like the Bodhi Tree (The Bodhi Tree was another
one of those eight things for me). When you walk in the Bodhi Tree you
feel the love of the spirit that’s in that room. There ain’t nobody there to
hurt nobody; everybody’s there to embrace everybody. When you walk
into Agape, you feel that warm energy and that love right way, before
anybody even opens their mouth. Then when Michael goes up and starts
talking, forget about it.