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The Wrong Thing To Do Is Nothing

by L. Ron Hubbard

You are important. But you’re as important as *seven dynamics are important — to you.

Now, each one of us has a certain amount of responsibility in this sphere, this universe, whatever size it is. And the number of times we didn’t go into communication are the number of times we’re out of communication. So we can always say, ‘The wrong thing to do is nothing.’

“There’s a big atom bomb. What can I do about the atomic bomb! I’m just me, I’m not anything.’

“Why are you just you? How’d you get to be just you?

“Well, everybody is broke and there’s five states blowing away out there, and drought sweeping through the Middle West, and we have an oversupply of food.  And there isn’t enough money to buy products, and the distribution is just that, and so forth.’ And you say, ‘Well I’m just me. I can’t do anything.’

‘How’d  you get to be just you that you can’t do anything about it?

By not doing anything about it.  Don’t you see?

“Someday, sooner or later, anybody has to turn on the devils that pursue him. Someday. You can turn with *processing, but you can also turn with living. By what?

By dong something about it.”

L. Ron Hubbard, Lecture of December 1956,   PROJECT THIRD DYNAMIC

*Seven Dynamics: the urge to survive along a certain course; an urge toward existence in an area of life. The seven dynamics are: first, self; second sex and the family unit; third, groups; forth, mankind; fifth, life forms; sixth, physical universe and seventh, spirits.

* Processing: called ‘auditing’, by which the auditor (practitioner) ‘listens and commands’. The purpose of the auditor is to increase the ability of the patient by having him look at his own existence and improve his ability to confront what he is and where he is. A procedure by which an individual recovers his self-determinism.