| When someone asks you, what is it that you believe | | | | align with Source. -- Now, is that selfish or unselfish? |
| in? What is the Law of Attraction? Do you really | | | | You don't owe anyone anything, except your children |
| believe that whatever you think will appear? Is it | | | | and only then because you brought them into the |
| possible for you answer these questions in a few | | | | world. With anyone else, if giving makes you happy, |
| words? Yes. | | | | then give. If moving away from the martyr makes you |
| Isn't the Law of Attraction Selfish and Hedonistic? | | | | happy, then move away. |
| Isn't life selfish and hedonistic? Yes it is. Life is meant to | | | | What if Your Success Hurts Someone Else? |
| be joyful. Now, this does not mean that you are to live | | | | Wallace Wattles warns us against competition. He |
| a solitary life in a great castle on a mountain top. Most | | | | assures us that when we manifest our success rather |
| humans derive a great deal of pleasure from happy | | | | than beating someone else, we will not be hurting |
| families. There is nothing selfish about being part of a | | | | anyone else. The world is not a zero-sum experience. |
| happy family. Happy families are work, but very | | | | So, how do we explain the global warming which has |
| satisfying work. | | | | come from all the success and the toys that have |
| There is nothing wrong with hedonism. Christianity | | | | been manifested by those in vibration with success? |
| sometimes attacks hedonism as being the opposite of | | | | Doesn't this hurt many others, if not us all? |
| martyrdom. Well, yes it seems to be, but how can you | | | | Life provides contrast. Someone might be reacting to |
| know what was in the heart of those martyrs? You | | | | the global warming, and being inspired to find a new |
| can only guess. You can only know for sure what is in | | | | source of energy. Without the difficulties of this oil |
| your own heart. | | | | energy, we wouldn't need to find a new energy. |
| When you are living in joy, you generally make those | | | | In the past, horses provided great transportation, but |
| around you happy as well. You see, being in joy | | | | they left their mess on the ground. Some deliberate |
| expressed externally after it is experienced, but if done | | | | creators learned how to use oil in their lamps, and then |
| honorably, it does not take away anything from those | | | | how to use it with a mass of iron to make an iron |
| around you. Your relationship with Source is a boon to | | | | horse that didn't leave so much mess on the ground. |
| those around you.In contrast, how do you feel when | | | | This worked well for a while. Now, we discover that oil |
| you are near a martyr? Pretty lousy you will answer if | | | | leaves its mess in the atmosphere and we need a |
| you have ever lived with a martyr or been friends with | | | | new source of energy. |
| a martyr. What is the unspoken lesson of a martyr? -- | | | | To answer the original question, what do we believe |
| "You owe me. I am being unselfish and giving, so you | | | | in? When we are looking for reasons to feel good, we |
| owe me either adoration or reciprocation or both." | | | | will let clarity and abundance in. |
| This person has not bothered to seek a relationship | | | | There is nothing wrong with this. There is nothing in this |
| with Source and seeks to gain joy from your work to | | | | that will hurt anyone else. |