Abe has conferred with the crowd about whether they would rather have longer Q&As with fewer people or shorter Q&As that would allow more people. After a brief process, theyve decided to go for shorter Q&As:
Abe: Very good. Start there, yes. Youre on. Now you hear what they want: succinct, clear, fast.
(There is a response away from the microphone, followed by crowd laughter.)
Abe: Your time is up. (More laughter.)
Q: Ive got a list.
Abe: What matters most?
Q: What matters most is changing and actually adding on to my career in public-speaking/seminar presentation of the business that Im in. And I have a such a huge desire to accomplish this, but almost equally is this fear of failure. And….
Abe: Well, our encouragement to you is that you think about what you do want, dont think about what you dont want. Talk about what you do want, dont talk about what you dont want. Tell everyone about what you do want, tell no one about what you dont want. Make lists of the things that have worked, dont talk about the things that do not work. In other words, just get on a sort of rampage of appreciation. If you find yourself trying to do that and not able to do that, then get off that topic altogether and get onto something else.
The thing that we most want to hear is that youve asked, the Universe has answered, now youve just got to find a way to get the valve open.
Next? (Laughter from audience that goes on for a while. Someone else takes the microphone.)
Q: My question is about karma.
Abe: There isnt any.
Q: Thats (stops and laughs)….
Abe: Next. (Laughter from audience.) Back row….
Q: You said ‘fate’ one time. We’re fated.
Abe: Say it again?
Q: You said we’re fated. That we are fated. And what did ‘fated’ mean? I connected that to karma.
Abe: Well, karma in the way most people mean it, there isnt any of that. Because….
Q: But ‘so you reap,’ karma, fate and all….
Abe: Well, there is that. In other words, what you sow you do reap because Law of Attraction says that which you offer vibrationally is that which you bring back. But it does not pass on from lifetime to lifetime to lifetime in the negative sense that people mean because when you re-emerge into nonphysical, you re-emerge into pure positive energy, and when you come forth into your next incarnation, you come forth from that place of pure positive energy.
Q: So all of that that I was taught as a child and all this that Ive been working through is all bullshit?
Abe: Yes. (Laughter from audience.) Yes.
— Abe — North Los Angeles, CA, 3/22/03