Three Wishes (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

Three Wishes

[Dan.Linehan]

Nice post Erin.

I think I only have one wish any more.. do my best.


Argh, that's a copout, isn't it.

If I had three wishes they would be:

• Find a partner.
• Live at peace.
• Do my best everyday.

[KLmasina]

Erin,

I really like your three wishes. I've never heard 'relationship' expressed in quite that manner - and it's great.

I might have to adopt your three wishes for myself. I've been working hard at the first one for the last while, getting to know the true me... and I figure once I've nailed that a little more, wish number 2 will come into effect!

Much joy,
KL

[kidonge]

Erin, you wrote of a fantasy scenario where a man wished for $1million dollars and lost his wife. This is something I have been interested in lately and you might shed some light on. Suppose one makes a wish for good to happen; is good conserved? If you wish for something happy, does this mean something necessarily unhappy will befall someone else or you at a later point in time. Or maybe not unhappy or bad, but just a whole lot of average.

I think intrinsically within human nature our beliefs are all generally affected by the laws of the natural world. In most cases things are conserved, energy, matter, etc. If we flip a coin intending to get heads, we have to eventually get tails too. Can good essentially be created out of nothing or is there some limit to its manifestation?

[Old Soul]

What I didn’t realize when I made these three wishes is that the genie was inside of me

"Lessons from a Whirlwind"

There is a round trip out of kansas
Sponsered by "Tornado Gettaway's"
To seek out the great one
And all that he has to say
Rubby slippers will be provided
sized to fit your feet
To guide and protect you
as you journey the golden streets
You musn't become disollusioned
if the wizard seems like he's all
"Smoke-N-Mirrors"
He really is a gentle man
with wisdom beyond his years
He is going to remind you
of something you have forgot
Saying'
"How can I give to you something you've already got"!
You will then return home all the wiser
with an insight as never before
knowing the very thing we seek, or love the most
is never beyond our front door....

[songwriter]

Well, when I was a kid, I thought and "why don't he ask "a lot of wishes" as wish #1?". Now I could say "infinite wishes" lol... but that's for no use I think, If you were able to have all you want... you couldn't dream at all. Nothing would make you go on. I'd better accomplish the things for myself that have them given in "a magical way" or so... I don't play the lottery, for instance.

I think I wouldn't do any wish. Of course, I have problems to solve and the world has problems to solve. But I prefer to solve myself my problems, and who am I to decide for the whole world?.

Just after solving those problems, another new would come so... what's the use of get them solved that way... it's better to learn step by step. If you would become rich suddenly, I think you won't be prepared for it, etc. Just the same for a hot girl, lol....

[Greg Butler]

Everything is already within us -- infinite knowledge, infinite power, and infinite bliss. The only problem is that these infinite divine attributes are concealed by the impressions on our mind (from thoughts, experiences, actions, etc.) that tell us that we are something different. And the ego perpetuates this -- constantly identifying with the limited aspects of self. So we have a real treasure within us. We just need the key to get beyond the false, the wall that blocks our perception of who we are.

Therefore, if I had three wishes, they would be:

1. an awakenning of love so intense that it burned all the falseness that surrounds my consciousnesss;
2. the perfect ability to express this love in creative ways that most inspire others to strive for the infinity that lies within them;
3. The ability to reach as many people as possible.

[Destine4destiny]

My three wishes are:
1. To get the knowldege needed to move forward so that I can have success .
2. To find true love.
3. To find true happiness within me

[Dan.Linehan]

Wow... it's been a little over a year, and I've done all three things!