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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  FYI I wouldn't use this fear-based approach today. The story I wrote was from many years ago, long before I launched StevePavlina.com.
A fear-based approach is thinking you need to recover money you've lost by taking it from somone. A love-based approach recognizes that money is abundant and can always be created anew, so there's no need to fret over losses or seek retribution when you have the option of focusing on the creative side.
In fact, this love-based approach helped me a lot on the path to financial abundance. Instead of fussing over my expenses, I largely ignored them and put my energy on the income side by focusing on creating value. |
So what you're saying is that today you would handle the situation as a lightworker acting purely out of love? If so, in what way would your life be different from today until the day you die, compared to Jesus Christ?
For example, if a homeless person rang your doorbell, would you let him sleep at your house or would you be afraid for your safety or the safety of your children and maybe give him some food and drive him to the homeless shelter?
If a teenage kid at school beat up one of your kids to the point they had broken bones and then chucked a brick through your window, would you deal with them by offering love?
I mean I can come up with any number of examples where I take something you care about (your kids, your safety, your peace, your freedom, etc.) and threaten to take it away, injure it, etc. Are you saying you would always react with love now that you've chosen to be a lightworker?
I can see that right now you wouldn't chase after a $300 refund, but maybe that's because you make quite a bit of money from your blog nowadays, but what if someone stole $35k from you? Or defrauded you by stealing your kids college money? or $300k? or some big amount you do care about?
See, I still don't see how someone can live a human life purely polarized in one direction. For example, if you come to my house and offer me love and respect I will reflect that back to you in multiples. However, if you break into my house at night trying to hurt me and my family, LOVE is not what you will feel hitting you in the head before you regain consciousness.
I'm sorry, but I just see that both sides are still needed in life for as long as we still have any snippen of an EGO within us. Once we truly transcend EGO and become perfect and enlightened like Christ or Buddha or something, then we might be able to be a pure Lightworker and act from love always and forever. Until then, why do you practice martial arts? So that you can learn how to love the people that try to hurt your family? I doubt that.