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Today's
Quotation:
The
world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are
frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter
how hard
you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what
life will do
for you, cuts you off from the good things of the
world. Expect victory and you make victory.
Preston
Bradley
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Today's
Meditation:
I've
read many, many books in the last few years that talk about
the power that we have to create our own lives, to make
things happen in our lives rather than waiting passively for
them to occur. It's kind of a scary thought, because
it implies our responsibility for the way things are in our
lives. If things are going wrong, then we have
contributed to the negative occurrences through our own
thoughts and actions.
The
more I read and try to put into practice the principles that
I read, the more I'm convinced that Preston is right--if we
expect negative things in our lives, that's exactly what
we'll get. If, on the other hand, we expect prosperity
and peace and positive things, guess what we'll get?
Unfortunately,
most of us aren't able to make a shift like this for the
long run. In our age of immediate gratification, if we
try to be positive for a month and we don't see great
changes in our lives, we're likely to give up and say
"See? Even when I try this, it doesn't
work!"
The
world is a mirror. It gives back to us what we give to
it. If we give it a frightened, tentative attitude, it
responds on that level. It has to, because it responds
to what we give it. We're not talking about what other
people give us as individuals, but what the world as a whole
gives to us.
A
consistently positive attitude creates a consistently
positive return. You do have it within your power to
prove this in your own life, and to turn your life into a
reflection of an attitude that focuses on beauty and
empowerment and love.
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Questions to ponder:
1. Have you ever been taught
specifically about the power of your own thoughts, and their
tendency to create the life you live?
2. How can it be true that
"life is a mirror"?
3. Does it make sense to think that
"life" really can
discriminate and put some of us
down and give some
of us great gifts, or is it truly
objective? |
