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Five years later I got them to have an area convention to see how they were doing with the work, were they really using it.

We had about 600 graduates come out. They would get on stage and tell us what they were doing.

They said, "Well, we don't practice, we don't have meetings and practice, but whenever one of the family members gets injured or sick, everybody helps them at levels."

A woman got up there, a school teacher, and said, "What do you think of the Silva system?"

"Well, it is a method of mental training that helps an individual become a better problem solving agent on the planet; a healthier better problem solving agent on the planet."

Everybody applauded.

An elderly gentleman got up there and said, "What this course means to me is that if I go to church to pray for rain, I take my umbrella with me."

Everybody liked that.

Then this young lady got up there and said, "I think I've got the best message for all of you. I have an invoice here," she was one of the painters in the group, "I sold a painting in Dallas for $26,000."

Learning from masters how to be yourself

At one time, they said, "We don't want to do this any more."

I said, "What do you mean?"

"We don't want to be imitations of anybody. We want to be originals. Our own selves. We don't want to be imitators of anybody."

I said, "What's wrong with starting off like a Da Vinci, like a Rembrant, and go from there? We're not telling you to be a duplicate of them. Use them to move on from there."

They got stuck. They didn't know what to do. They didn't know how to improve over the great artists of the past. We want to go beyond that.

So we said, "Why don't you go from where they left off, and continue on, not to be just duplicates of these people."

They finally said, "Okay, we understand what you mean."

That's what this man Jesus said when he came by. He said, "He who believes in me and the works that I do, he also shall do." But he didn't stop there. "Greater than this you shall do." He was just getting started in this field. You should do better than I did.

Same thing here. This works for all these painters also. Better than they have ever done, we should do. They understood then. They continued working in these areas.

(Transcribed from a lecture presented by Jose Silva in 1995)

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