Friday, October 3, 2014

Being Your Vision – Dangerous Prosperity

We must bring our mechanical use of the Law under the control of Spiritual Wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom might be dangerous. Only when wisdom speaks through knowledge can knowledge produce permanent freedom.
– Ernest Holmes Change Your Thinking Change Your Life

The law of attraction is that we all attract to us whatever we think of with complete attention accompanied by strong feeling, regardless of intention. Electricity can light a room, cook a meal, or electrocute a person. It is a dangerous power for children and the untaught to play with. Similarly, the law of attraction brings our fears and attracts all manner of difficulty to the unwise.

Holmes also states, “The more power one gives to his thought, the more completely he believes that his thought has power, the more power will it have.” Learning the law of attraction without learning to use it wisely, without compassion for others, or clearing from active memory every hurt or hatred sets us up for attracting disaster in the guise of wealth.

How many famous, talented people have gained notoriety by attracting affairs and addictions? Men and women attract money and discover that in the process they have destroyed their health or their relationships by being narrowly focused and unaware that they could as easily have the total prosperity package. Attracting any aspect of prosperity without including the whole package is dangerous and destructive to others and to us.

Living a completely prosperous life is not only desirable it is possible and far easier to experience than most people know. We have to understand that one person’s prosperity to be complete must include the prosperity of others. I don’t mean that we shoulder the burden of world hunger or world peace as our sole responsibility. I do mean that when we think about prosperity, we must get the feeling that the universe has so much and we have so much that there is always plenty left over. This is true for physical health, calling or career, finding the love of our life, and enjoying the lavish wealth, which allows us complete personal and social freedom.

When we ignore any one area or believe that we need to take from others, we attract difficulty in that area and never attain satisfaction in our lives. The truly prosperous life we enjoy as a game where in our minds everyone plays, enjoys, and wins. I recently saw a post about the stress of trying to create win win situations. We have little or no stress and definitely no distress when we begin with the idea that we are all winners or we would not be here. Think about the swimmers.

The law, any law is a description of a mechanical force and we may use any law for our benefit when we understand how. Life, Love, Intelligence, or the Spirit, which lives in all, is equally important to the laws that we use to express and attract our prosperity. They are essential to each other. Without laws, Spirit is empty feeling. Without Spirit, laws have no direction. Without both, we have no existence. Feel the feelings that are most creative and use them with wisdom to create the life that is most fulfilling.

Now, I let the Infinite teach me the wisdom to use law to attract only my highest and best directly from It. Knowing there is abundant left for everyone else, I delight in all I find for it is good and very good. So it is.

John

John Lusk


“First you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes

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