Bruce Lipton

"It took 23 years after my original research for science to catch on. A new science called epigenetics. I am the only guy standing there going, I do not think that is true, and 23 years later, finally science caught on and I was vindicated."

"What if all the people around me were experiencing the same wonderful life. Then it would not just be me having an experience of my personal heaven on Earth, the whole planet could experience heaven on Earth. It was a driving force that says, I am going to go out there and talk to everybody that I can to help them get out of the victim mentality and get into the creative nature of who they are."

"I realized I could not stay a professor in a medical school because by curriculum they wanted me to go in and do teaching about genes, and I said this is not true. I left with a new purpose, and my purpose was to inform people of the new science, which took 23 years after my original research, a new science called epigenetics. I wanted to wake people up because I woke up, my life completely changed."

"The most challenging moments I have had in my career was when my research revealed the new science that my colleagues did not understand. Everybody was into genes, genes this, genes that, all the money was going to genes, and I am the only guy standing there going, I do not think that is true. My colleagues looked at me like I was a crazy person. I actually felt for a while that I might be crazy because everyone else was against my whole belief system. I even went back to my graduate school and asked one of the world's top cell biologists, tell me what is wrong with my idea. He said, it is too simple. I actually laughed out loud in his face. I said, Lenny, let me tell you, the first week in graduate school I was taught Occam's Razor, the simplest hypothesis is the best hypothesis. I said, if you think it is too simple, I want to thank you for that. 23 years later, finally science caught on and I was vindicated. So I went from crazy person to jubilant person."

"If I am controlling my genes, which control my behavior, then how come my life was not so good. I started to realize, oh, behaviors that I learned during the first seven years of my life, the programming part, were not supporting that. The result led me to how can I change those, and I understood their nature. I was introduced by friends to ways of changing those belief systems, so I actively changed those belief systems, and immediately my life became totally different. People do not realize that the behavior they are playing most of the day is not who they are, that they are playing a program. The creative conscious mind is the one with wishes and desires and aspirations. But you are not operating from that mind, you are operating from the programmed mind, which is in the subconscious. 95 percent of the day, their behavior is taken over by their subconscious program."

"My research on stem cells back in 1967 revealed that genes did not control our lives, that it was the environment that was shaping our genetic activity. If you really ask me, I have two distinct lives on this planet, before the awareness of epigenetics and after the awareness of epigenetics. Before the awareness of epigenetics we were victims of heredity. I did not pick the genes, they controlled me. After epigenetics, the whole thing turned around and said, no, I am not a victim of the genes, I am a master of the genes. I wake up every day now going, thank God I am still alive on this planet, because the joy of recognizing I am the creator of my life, I am not the victim of my genes, changed my entire life. I wake up and I live in heaven, even in the middle of all crazy people. I am not buying into their world, I buy my own world, and I love it."