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Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina  It's being clear about your goals (difficult for some people) and then preparing yourself to receive that goal by taking strong and consistent action towards it. |
That's not any sort of Law of Attraction. It's simple common sense. Set a goal, prepare for it, work your butt off until you achieve it. No attraction necessary.
I honestly don't meant to be negative, but this is something I've known all my life. It's not a law of anything other than "cause and effect".
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Originally Posted by Mato Kinze Who's to say that what we term "magical" and "mystical" now are no more than principles we have yet to understand? |
No, you misunderstand me. I apologise if I was unclear. Let me put it another way.
I DO understand the principle at work here. It's very simple: Set a goal. Figure out how to achieve that goal. Work toward it until you achieve it (or until you give up and go another direction, I suppose). Voila.
There is NO spirituality involved in that. None. And that's what disappoints me. It's all EGO based.
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Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina When you have no idea what action to take or what you really want then you are at the mercy of other peoples' goals and desires, at the mercy of what your guides or higher self want for you, or at the mercy of what nefarious beings want for you. |
Yes, exactly. So if you're out of ideas, you're out of luck. Or at least, it seems that way.
Like I said, I honestly WANT to believe, but there's nothing there to "believe". It's common sense. Want more money? Get a better job! How do you do that? Put in resumes and applications until you get one! VOILA! LOA at work.
As I said, that's not LOA. It's just cause and effect. Simple goalsetting and planning and carrying out of action. There's no "higher self" involved at ALL. It's all ego based. YOU come up with the idea, YOU plan for it, YOU execute it.
And that really disappoints me, because it's not "spiritual" in the least. I had real hope that there WAS something spiritual going on that I could tap into, but I find that, like everything else, it's all up to me and my puny little ego to figure it out.
Again, I'm sincerely sorry to sound so very negative, but it's just how I feel about the situation after a tremendous amount of reading, soul-searching, thought, meditation, and, yes, prayer... If it's really up to me and my little ego to figure it all out and put it all into action, well, let's just say that's not encouraging.