Law of Attraction and Getting What You Want: Are You An Attractive Person?
Attractiveness has much less to do with beauty than you might think. After all, wouldn’t you rather be around a nice person than a pretty person that treated you poorly? “Love” and all its attributes – kindness, compassion, faith, gratitude, joy, etc – is the only truly attractive force; and, interestingly, the more love you give, the more attractive you become – and the more you receive. When your thoughts are grounded in Love, faith, trust, courage, and gratitude, you are a constant attractor; and you get more and more of what you want – and less of what you don’t want.
The Law of Attraction and Mundane Concerns
Concerns are thoughts, worries, or situations that give rise to thoughts and worries. The word, “mundane,” simply means, “Worldly,” “common,” or “commonplace.” The concept of “mundane concerns” should interest anyone interested in the Law of Attraction for the simple reason that our concerns are thoughts; and thoughts are at the heart of attraction. If, in other words, you get what you think about, it is your mundane concerns causing your mundane life. And we do get what we think about – in one way or another.
Spirituality Simplified: They “Know Not What They Do”
As you undertake the effort to practice forgiveness in your life, it is also appropriate to take into consideration the words of Jesus as he neared his death, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.” Although this statement is familiar to many, I believe that most individuals would believe instead that those who harmed them were
actually well aware of what they were doing.
From my experiences on this path, I’ve come to believe that a person who does harm to another is simply doing what they know how to do at the time given the level of their awareness of spiritual principles, nothing more, nothing less. While it can be difficult to adopt this perspective when an individual does something that is really mean or hurtful, if you got down to the heart of the matter, you would find they were merely doing the best they could in that moment to deal with their own life’s issues and fears.
Spirituality Simplified: Why Is That "What Goes Around, Comes Around"?
By: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jeff_Maziarek]Jeff Maziarek
The old saying, "what goes around, comes around," is actually a slang interpretation of the spiritual principle of Cause and Effect, which itself is derived from the biblical admonition that "what you sow is what you reap." It essentially means that every effect that you see or experience in the world had to have a cause. While at first glance this may appear to be a very simple and obvious concept, it has profound implications for every human being. What it means is that literally every single thought and feeling you experience is a cause that sets into motion an eventual effect. This insightful passage from Lynn Grabhorn’s book "Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting" builds upon this point:
Knowing Your Job; Doing "Your Part"
In life, your job is to enjoy your experience. Sometimes that means doing the best you can under any number of circumstances; but it always means doing your part. If, for some reason, you find that you are not enjoying your experience, it is up to you to take steps to change your experience. You can learn to enjoy where you are; or you can learn whatever you need to learn in order to begin "co-creating" a more enjoyable experience for yourself.
Spirituality Simplified
As long as we have been aware of ourselves, we have sought to understand our true, spiritual nature. In one way or another, all human endeavors lead back to the basic quest for self-knowledge. Knowledge, it is said, is the only way to end suffering; and all living things would prefer not to suffer. All great philosophies and religions are built, in fact, on the quest for grace and an end to suffering. Ignorance causes misfortune and illness; and wisdom heals.
The spiritual path is not always an easy path to walk. The path is narrow; and there are few who have truly mastered it. But the essence of walking the spiritual path should be simple; it should be accessible to all of us — though we may need a guide, or a series of guides, along the way. Along the path, there are many guides; Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified, is one of those guides. With Spirituality Simplified, Jeff Maziarek has mapped-out the basics of the spiritual journey while leaving a “trail of bread crumbs” for any spiritual seeker to follow, or simply enjoy.
In its 229-pages, Spirituality Simplified features over 80-pages of excerpts from more than 40-different writers, philosophers, teachers, and sages — blending them together in an easy-to-understand foundational work on exploring the spiritual path to self-actualization and ultimate fulfillment. Readers of The Secret will benefit greatly from a much more expansive look into the natural laws by and from which our experience seems to be created. They will also be treated to a greater understanding of how and why it is in our best interest to spend more time thinking positively about thinking.
Spirituality Simplified is one of those books destined for mainstream acceptance due to its comprehensive foundation of information, wisdom, and supporting commentary by dozens of the wisest people to ever ponder the questions nearest and dearest to us all. This book will make an excellent addition to the library of any spiritual seeker, as well as making an excellent primer for anyone seeking to create change in their own life, or seeking their own spiritual path.
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Love, and Differences, in Common… "Judge not."
From the beginning, we have been growing apart. This isn’t bad; it’s nature. Look at a tree, and you will notice that 
what begins as one trunk branches into many; and each branch also starts as one and divides into many – with each split sending smaller versions on diverging paths. Each path, however, ends the same – with a leaf, in the case of a tree.
The pattern of the branches is not unlike the branching of roots underneath the surface — invisible to the eye. That which is seen comes from that we cannot see; "As above, so below, as below, so above." Nature is a series of repeating patterns. When you look at little pieces of the pattern, you may see differences; but when you look at the big picture you see only similarities — or Unity, depending on how far you are able to "zoom out."
Even the leaf has the pattern of the tree and its branches represented in the stem and “veins” of the leaf. Even the shape of the leaf corresponds to the overall shape of the tree in many cases. The whole is made up of many small parts; and the whole is reflected in each of those parts. But all of those paths started with a single seed, within which the entire tree was waiting – including roots, branches, leaves, and countless other seeds.
No two branches, leaves, or trees are exactly the same; but all trees of the same type are very similar – perhaps identical to the untrained eye. And an entire forest could have originated with one seed. One seed, many roots; one tree, many branches; one forest, many trees — all from One.
In the context of humanity, we too start from a single source and emerge into the outer world of diversity. It is puzzling why the vast majority spend the bulk of their time trying to impose conformity on a system designed by God to produce diversity. This is the nature of judgment. An ancient Native American wisdom teaching on judgment reminds us that, “No tree has branches foolish enough to fight amongst themselves.” In our efforts to make things like “us,” we create judgment, war, suffering, etc…
Of course, the plan to create conformity works, but not the way we think it should. By fighting amongst ourselves to make others believe as we do, or act as we do, we create a world in which everyone is unhappy and unhealthy (mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, or some combination of these…). Everyone, it seems is living less of a life than they could be living, simply because they are too worried about what they aren’t, or what they aren’t doing, or what they don’t have.
You aren’t supposed to look like everyone else, and you aren’t supposed to think the same things as everyone else. We are supposed to be as different as we are; and our pain is caused by resisting that natural tendency and by trying to conform with others. True, there are some things we should do alike (breathing, not killing, etc…); but those are our essential nature – not adopted behaviors.
Wisdom teachings were set down to help us identify those behaviors that benefit us the most. “Judge not,” for example, is not a rule that you should be ostracized for breaking; it is advice that will bear you good fruit in body, mind, and spirit, should you choose to follow it. But if you don’t, I still pray that your way be made as easy as you want it to be. I wouldn’t judge another just because they judge me. If there’s already that one person thinking bad thoughts about me, why would I want to make my situation any worse by allowing my mental state to degrade to one of judgment?
The act of judgment is based on a conflict of beliefs and perceptions: The conflict between how you BELIEVE things should be and how you PERCEIVE them to be. The important thing is that beliefs are fluid and different for everyone – so are perceptions. And judgment, along with anything else that stimulates thoughts of conflict, activates your stress response. There is no way to be in a conflict and not be stressed. And, in case you’re thinking, “Big deal! It’s not like I haven’t been stressed out before…,” you may want to do some research on stress – it causes every medical problem known to man! Judgments cause stress; and stress kills. You do the math for yourself and let me know if you think the great healer, Jesus, was handing out good advice, or not, when He expounded on the teaching, "Judge not."
The teaching to, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is often misinterpreted as: “Do unto others what they did to me,” or, “Do unto others before they do unto me…” The “others” we speak of are US. There is only the ONE, expressing itself as ALL THINGS. There is no “other.” When we judge others, we are comparing them to a memory of how we have seen or heard things should be.
If we are judging others, we were taught to judge at the same time we were taught the standards by which to judge others. And we were all taught these things by different people with different histories, beliefs, attitudes, agendas, and intentions. Who taught you what’s right and wrong, good and bad, pretty or ugly, healthy or unhealthy, moral or immoral? And how are their beliefs working for them? How about for YOU? The one thing you, me, and every living thing should do – always – is LOVE.
Being yourself means thinking your own thoughts. You can’t do that if you are worrying about what other people will think of you, or worrying about what someone else might be "getting away with." Being yourself means being different while understanding that you are exactly the same as everyone else — at your Source.
Flowers do not mourn the fact they aren’t trees; they smile at the Sun all day — admiring the Sun above which gives the flower life below. Be happy you are different; different is unique – and God only does “unique.” When you are happy with yourself, and love yourself for all of the unique gifts you were given access to, then you can truly love others for who they are. When you love unconditionally, you are free of judgment; when you have freed yourself from judgment, you are free to love unconditionally.
Bless them All
My last post ["What luck for rulers that men do not think."] was about thinking — actually, it was just as much about not-thinking. Really, all my posts are, in one way or another, about thinking; but there were parts in that last post that could have seemed "anti-media," or "anti-government." It was actually nothing more than an invitation for US to wake-up; talking heads is not my term for the people who read the news prepared by other people and approved by others still. The point was simply this: If you don’t think for yourself, others are more than willing to do it for you; and they will. And it will cost you money, cause you suffering, and you will not get what you want, but what they want you to have. That’s all.
As for the media, government, and the heads of organized religions around the world, Bless you all. There is indeed darkness in the world; and it doesn’t settle to [or for] the bottom — it does whatever it needs to do to reach the top and stay there. But being anti-anything is never the answer. Leaders who start wars are the real victims, though they would smirk at that statement; they need our love and blessings. A leader who bends to the greed and ignorance that starts wars is a leader in need of positive energy — not more negative energy. Pray for these men to find wisdom; do not curse them.
Love, and Differences, in Common… "Judge not."
From the beginning, we have been growing apart. This isn’t bad; it’s nature. Look at a tree, and you will notice that 
what begins as one trunk branches into many; and each branch also starts as one and divides into many – with each split sending smaller versions on diverging paths. Each path, however, ends the same – with a leaf, in the case of a tree.
The pattern of the branches is not unlike the branching of roots underneath the surface — invisible to the eye. That which is seen comes from that we cannot see; "As above, so below, as below, so above." Nature is a series of repeating patterns. When you look at little pieces of the pattern, you may see differences; but when you look at the big picture you see only similarities — or Unity, depending on how far you are able to "zoom out."
Turn Your Complaints into Blessings, part 2
So that’s it? You just change the heading on a list from, "Complaints" to "Blessings," and the bad things in your life just go away — or become good things?
I never said that was all there was to it; I said that was the first step. But there really isn’t that much more to it! First, you create the possibility that you may have been looking at some of the Blessings in your life as Problems or Burdens. Then, you start thinking about these things and ask yourself, "How is this problem really a blessing."
Do it; ask yourself that question. Don’t simply say, "Why should I do that? It isn’t a blessing!" If you want something different, you need to start thinking differently; that’s why. If you aren’t happy, you can be sure you aren’t accessing and using all of your wisdom. Wise people know everything is a blessing. The rest are here simply to figure that out in their own ways and in their own times.
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The Belief Formula
