Ryuho Okawa - 5 Sept

But I really want to say to you that, You have the power of God within means that You have the Kingdom of God within you. It is easier to understand than the words, You have the power of God within. You have the Kingdom of God within you is a little easier for all of you. What does the Kingdom of God mean? Kingdom means the area or realm of God. Think deeply inside of you, and at that time, you will find something beautiful in your mind, something good in you, or finally something eternal.

Then, today, I want to talk to you about this kind of kingdom, area, or realm of God within you. What is the Kingdom of God in you? In religion, faith is the bridge from men to God. When you have ardent and deep faith in God, your mind will combine to the heart of God in heaven. It means you have goodness, beauty, or Truth in you. I want to say to you, while you are keeping a peaceful mind in you with good faith, you are near God, or in some meaning, you can be a neighbor to God.

But you are sometimes easily disappointed with yourself because you, as a human, are apt to make a lot of mistakes and youve experienced a lot of disappointment in your own history. So, youll feel hesitant to accept this kind of thinking.

Of course, human beings have a tendency to make a mistake. There is an old saying, To err is human, to forgive divine, which means that human beings usually make a lot of mistakes, but only God has the right to forgive them all. Its the traditional meaning of faith and the traditional acceptance of religion.

But now, from the end of the 19th century, through the 20th century, to the 21st century, man has a different kind of power. It was found by some kind of bright-side liking people, the people who aimed at making a successful life by their own power, for themselves. Such kind of people were produced during the 20th century, and now, this is still going on especially in the United States of America. Such influence came to Europe, Japan, and some Americanized countries in the world.

So, here is one starting point you should stand when you are thinking about the Kingdom of God within you. This theory, in other words, says that you are what you are thinking about, and what you are thinking about all day long. Famous President Lincoln already knew about that. Of course, these are the famous words of Napoleon Hill, the philosopher of a successful mind in growing rich. In the old times, the same thing was taught by Buddha, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, and others like them. That is the essence of the mind.

You have a creator in you. This creator, of course, doesnt mean you made the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, or the stars, that is too much. You can create these things in the planetarium, of course, but in reality, its a little difficult, I guess. But you can imagine a lot of things in you, and what you imagine in you itself is the possibility of designing, building, and realizing, your plan or your dream.

Dreams come true is a truth. If you have the ability to dream in you, it means you have the possibility to realize your dream. A dream is just the plan for your life. If you can dream, you can make plans in your life, and these plans will lead you to the future and make your future.

Your dream will make it easier for you to do your daily efforts. Because you have the final goal in you, you can clearly look at your final goal, so what is required of your efforts is limited. They are great efforts, I guess, but such great efforts, in your mind, must be limited because you already found your final goal thanks to your ability to dream.

If you can set your final goal, you can calculate how long or how intensely you should make efforts. So, you must divide those efforts day by day, and you should do your best in one day, the twenty-four hours. If you do, your dream will surely come true, in the near future or before you pass away from this world.

A religious and philosophical movement called the New Thought movement occurred in the U.S. in the 19 century. Many of the groups are Christian, and they basically hold the positive thinking that good thoughts lead to good things. Napoleon Hills philosophy of success, Norman Vincent Peales positive thinking, and Joseph Murphys rules for success using the subconscious, which are ideas in the 20th century, are just a few examples of this movement.