Everything is like muscles -- needs exercise. Even noble ideas must be exercised often in order for them to grow and stay firm and stable. Everything is an exercise. For example, before you didn't know how to meditate. You could not believe that you could sit there two or three hours doing nothing. You got itchy here and there. But now you've gotten used to it. You derive benefits from it, so you like to do it more. It's a kind of exercise. Just like people when they workout every week, maybe everyday or twice or three times a week, their muscles develop.

If muscles, the material things, can develop, how much more the subtle things, like ideas and thoughts. So the more we develop our noble ideas, the quicker they grow and the more stable they are planted in our subconscious. And we just carry on this way and the "muscles of nobility and high ideals will continue to stay that way, keep healthy all the time or develop even more. The Mr. Universes are not born with muscles like that, it's the result of many years of hard work. One bit after another until they have fully developed.

Similarly, don't sit there and think that you'll become noble. You must exercise, do something. Don't sit there and think that you can do anything you want any minute of your life, and that will actualize into reality. No, you must do it to prove it to yourself and to build the "muscle of actualizing your own idea and nobility. Don't just sit there and think that you are noble, you are okay--do something to prove it. Then you can tell yourself: "Oh yes, I really am courageous, I really am noble. I really can do what I want any minute of my life. If it benefits other people, I really can put down my selfish desires, or things like that. Do something. Actions speak louder than words. Everyone knows. Ah! Just talk!

That's why I became Master and you are students; because you talk, you think, but you don't do anything. That's the difference between us, nothing else. You have the same brain, same Buddha power, same God, same Father, same freedom to move, same body -- some are bigger -- same will power, except I exercise my will-power's "muscle and you just sit there and read books about exercising or look at the advertisement of the muscle-building machine but don't move. I have a lot of muscle-building apparatus in my house, but I never touch them. Having muscle-building apparatus in your home doesn't help anything; never mind, just looking at a picture, thinking about it, or imagining, "Yeah, yeah. It will do me good." It will, but it doesn't. It will, but I don't know when.

So everything must be exercised. Must put words into action, must put the ideas into realization. Just dreaming about work doesn't bring you money. Same with ideas, noble purposes, morality, anything. Anything must be practiced everyday. Why do we spend a lot of time exercising muscles and things like that, and we don't spend more time exercising our noble ideas? The latter is even more important.