I've never read it either, but I've always known that positive thought brings about positive things. Don't know how, or why, but it definitely works.
The Secret: The Law of Attraction
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I've never read it either, but I've always known that positive thought brings about positive things. Don't know how, or why, but it definitely works.
I don't think negative is attracted to us, we are attracted to what we have in common. If you want to be positive, you will notice the negative in others and have more in common with those who are positive minded and vis versa. You know, misery loves company.
Then how come we look for the unknown, if there is no concealed attraction to it?:laughing7::wave:
The book is called the secret but many have written about the Law of attraction. Grabhorn, dyer, deepok, walcsh to name a few.
Lets start an experiment. In this thread if someone says a negative we say a [positive about that person back. Like......You are a very educated person on so many subjects (no buts dont even think it
) Lets see what happens.
Lets start an experiment. In this thread if someone says a negative we say a [positive about that person back. Like......You are a very educated person on so many subjects (no buts dont even think it
) Lets see what happens.
You are so right... but, I think it might be deeper than that; I know that, weird as it sounds, if I want something to happen, I apply my mind to it as if it is imminent, and generally, it happens..
Most people are afraid of the unknown, but attempt to look into it for various reasons; curiosity, to see if there's something they can use, to find answers, etc.
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Didn't work for me. Now, if I hoofed it over to the store, I might find one.
I don't think so. If you have a goal or what have you in mind, you are aware and looking for opportunity whereas you might not have been before. There are exceptions to everything, but it's important to take notice of the chain of events and what you were thinking at the time - for those who aren't as determined.
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Didn't work for me. Now, if I hoofed it over to the store, I might find one.
lol, you gotta give it more than a split second of contemplation...
It is often that way with me, too. I asked my Volkhv about it one day. He explained to me that it is one's Power coming and going. Sometimes it works on the level that we can feel and understand, and then we feel happy and full of energy, and all the situations that we have to face are quite successful. And sometimes it works on the levels that we cannot even perceive, and so we feel that is has left us. But it is always with us. It takes quite some time and effort to establish a reltionship with your Power, to become friends with it, so to say. But it is definitely worth it!
A-ah, could you kindly take a couple of puffs for me? I am off illegal substances till Thursday... :|
Mostly I am very sorry for the good and faithful Christians. They are missing so many good things, limiting themselves to a religion that keeps them constantly in fear - fear of thought, fear of knowledge, fear of freedom, and fear of happiness.
But then they start attacking my beliefs and I turn Wolfess :laughing7:
Bad wording then, in my opinion. This is the first (The OP) where I've heard the claim of "universe making our reality."
This is essentially what I was getting at, though. When we change our attitudes, we change the way we see the universe around us.
I'm sure that's true, it's almost a tautology, but I read the OP to be stating that we don't merely change the way we see it, we actually directly change the universe itself. Neither case is really the Law of Attraction either. The Law of Attraction is a belief that your attitudes, motives, and intentions draw people to you with similar attitudes, motives, and intentions. More broadly it could be stated as "like attracts like:" if you're negative, negative things will happen to you (blame the victim), if you're positive, positive things will happen to you. In one sense that's trivially true, as I pointed out initially, we tend to hang around with people who share our views and avoid people who'd argue with us all the time. Thus one of the major peddlers of this nonsense, Gary Zukav in his book The Seat of the Soul, concludes that angry people's lives will be filled with angry people, greedy people's lives will be filled with greedy people, and so on, and he indicates we should learn to trust the universe to take care of our souls. Whatever that might mean.
But a moment's thought should show you that the Law of Attraction is false, as I also tried to point out initially. Sellers don't attract other sellers, they attract buyers. Grieving, vulnerable people don't attract other grieving, vulnerable people, they attract supportive friends and relatives who care about them, and vultures and con artists who try to take advantage of them. The New Agers would probably say--in fact I know they would, I've heard them say it--that grief and vulnerability are negative, so that example supports the Law of Attraction, but that kind of argument makes it impossible to verify. The Law means nothing at all if such obvious contradictions of it can get torqued around to support it. Typical New Age magical thinking: don't bother us with evidence and reason, we know what we know. Well, no they don't. They know what they want to believe, which is quite a different thing.
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It was a joke not a slur, of course he's got a bloody heart, how would the gears get lubricated without a pump.:laughing7::wave:
Nope, not in the sense I think you mean, of there being spiritual forces and entities out there that influence us, and that we can influence. There's no evidence that doesn't admit of much more prosaic explanations. I've had many moments that I could accurately describe as magical, meaning that's the best one word summary of their emotional impact on me, but that's all inside my own head.