How many have heard of the LAW of Attraction (and The Secret)?
(It attracts things that you want most into your life: Money, Relationships, Health, etc.)
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It has benefited me in several ways, but I am looking for any other input or ideas pertaining to this subject to help me possibly Progress in this area.
Are you a bot? 
srry nope havn’t heard of it and the movie link is broken…
what is the secret?
I am sorry. I have been so busy lately I haven’t been able to reply on the posts.
Well anyway.
[i]"The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world’s history, and through the lives of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law.
Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.
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It is almost like Zen. But rather than attracting mental happiness into your life, you are attracting material happiness.
Its absurd and idiotic and for anyone to even have to ask another human being about it is ridiculously pathetic.
No, merely thinking about success doens’t somehow magnet it to you from the univere.
Not to mention its fucking horrorful claims that ‘the power of positive thought’ can cure cancer or whatever medical malady you have. (No one fucking get into a debate about positive thinking curing cancer, PLEASE).
We live in a society where positive thought can easily translate into positive action for us to meet our expected or dreamed up goals, that is all there is to ‘the secret’ Getting off your ass, if you’re motivated, does stuff. If you lived in a poorer country, if any of us did, the ‘secret’ would do nothing for us, the power of positive thought would not curb malaria, it wouldn’t stop animals from eating your fellows, and it wouldn’t help YOU find food.
In any society where people don’t have MASSIVE options available to them, the secret is shown as the lie that it is, you can help yourself with motivation + oppertunity, that doesn’t mean you can draw your desires to you from the universe.
“horrorful.” Huh.
Well, Cyrene, I would suggest stopping right there. Perhaps it would be wise to describe someone other than yourself don’t you think? 
Research is not at all a bad thing. To speak about something you must first understand it Thoroughly.
I am also sorry for the delay of response. I never received a notification in my email of this reply.
What’s the “Law of Attraction” and meaning of life then?
The Law of Attraction is simply a way of attracting happiness into your life. Yes, it may be through materialistic possessions and the such, but I feel it is most important to attract happiness into your life. For if there is no happiness, you will not receive it through materialistic things such as sex, money, fame, etc. either. We can also see several examples of depressed people who contain all the possessions in the world, yet they’d rather be dead to the world.
When you awake in the morning, what is the first thing you think?
Probably something around, “Fuck, I’m still alive.”
Why think that when you could rather think, “Yes, I’m still alive.”
It sounds odd. I know it sounded very odd to me when I first began. I met a friend who seemed quite wild to me at first. Quite humorous, but all the same, a bit of an idiot. However I was very attracted to him from the moment I began to speak with him. Although he acted like a complete fool, it seemed I was attached to him for no apparent reason.
He made me happy.
The main thing we are each missing in life and constantly wish for is Happiness. In another post of yours, you asked what the point of life really was. I feel the point of life is to achieve whatever you feel you need to. But the only way you can achieve whatever you wish to is through happiness. If you are not an optimistic person, you lack the confidence, first off. The confidence is from which you gain through LAW of Attraction. Without confidence, you cannot gain anything at all.
You will find several people around you, the majority, to appear confident. True confidence is visible when you are confident from within. Not from your expensive apparel, beautiful physique, or amount of friends. When one is confident, he is confident wherever he is and in whatever situation. Because he is Happy. He does not look to find happiness through materialistic things (friends, clothes, physique, etc.). Instead, it begins from within.
This is the LAW of Attraction, but only a small part of it. What I have not told you already is only understood through practice.
EVERYTHING takes time. However, you need not look outside of you to find Happiness. For it is within your very self.
You can see this through the example - A child is born into an optimistic state. It is when he grows that he adapts to a pessimistic state, through seeing those around him and following their attitudes. A child cries when it desires food, but when receiving what is necessary, he is once again at peace. He only cries for he is too young to serve himself. But notice that the child does not refer to the moment at which he Did cry.
The largest reason for unhappiness is non-satisfaction. If one were to stay satisfied in all circumstances, he would be in a perfect state of happiness.
If you have a bad day, you are likely to become upset over a foolish idea. You may become upset with those around you, which may cause them to become angry with you and say something cruel to you. You must never feel guilty for your actions, but most of all, for others actions towards you. You may at first criticize them for their cruel behavior. But you may then reflect upon yourself and feel guilt for your own attitude throughout the day and towards those around you. Well is it not the fault of whatever made you upset that caused you to have a negative attitude? Or is it the fault of whatever caused the thing which upset you, to take place? Or would it be the cause of the cause of the thing which caused you to become upset? Ultimately, all becomes the fault of something other than yourself.
And so, you are only causing yourself to undergo pain. We each feel that we are the only sufferers. When in actuality, almost each person around us is suffering in the same way. And so, whomever you form a relationship within your life, even if just an acquaintance, it is important to respect that person. For they may as well be going through exactly what you do.
It is equally important that you never think higher of yourself.
Even after working as a cashier in ShopRite for seven hours, every day, for the entire summer. Never think higher of yourself. Never consider yourself the cause for receiving your paychecks. For this all then becomes attatchment. Attatchment to money. Learn to perform your duty for others. When expecting no benefit, you receive spiritual benefit. By spiritual benefit, I mean benefit to oneself. Happiness. And so, the very point of meditation itself.
Suppose you are working for a small company. If you sell enough of a product, you will receive a higher position within the company, which will give you a higher pay and a greater life. If you are receiving a customer and simply attempting at selling a cheap product in order to gain for yourself, you will only gain materially. And you may not gain at all. For karma is very likely to come back around and hurt you.
When helping an elderly cross a street or climb the stairs, you are not expecting anything in return. You are not doing it because you must. Or you will gain anything in return. But because you wish to make another Happy.
If happening to find a lost wallet and turning it in, typically a person would not expect any bright results. He knows he would have rather kept some of the money instead. Going against his own will to do another benefit is what brings him spiritual benefit. Happiness. You would not think that this action would make you happy. But becoming selfless would only bring one closer to Himself. Which is also a term for spirituality. Hardly at all in relation to religion, so do not be confused.Even if one turns the wallet in out of pure fear of being caught with it, he has acted correctly, and so, only benefits in return.
Do not commit yourself to gaining what you think is expected in life.
When a new owner pets his dog, it is not at all ever necessary that the dog will accept any friendships. He may simply bite your hand. If this is to happen to an ordinary person, the owner is likely to become angry and hate the dog. For he had expected the dog to reward him for his kindness – for the dog to instead, become more friendly. If the new owner pets the dog without any reward of acceptance or pleasure from the company of the dog in mind, he cannot become angry when he is bitten. He simply accepts. He had no positive or negative result or thought of the matter in mind to start with.
And so this is but an overview of what I have begun to understand. It was very difficult for me to get started. But my friend who I thought was a complete jerk-off was the very one who introduced LAW of Attraction to me. And so, you should never judge. It may sound like a recitation of Do’s and Don’t’s from a Holy Book of sorts, but the Holy Book simply states these under God to point people in a direction in which they feel will make them more religious. In actuality, these distinguishable attributes are attractive, for which I was attracted to my friend. They have a somewhat great aspect about them which, although it may seem as if it would not, attracts people. People are attracted to Happiness. Happiness can be conceived through Optimistic and Good people. Good meaning righteous. Righteous meaning listening to the little voice in your head.
Even if that piece of shit pisses you off.
I hope I have helped you in understanding, my friend.
Incorrect.
The reason is very apparent.
There’s a difference between male & female happiness.
Males don’t work like this–male satisfaction is created through strife and vibrational harmony.
This feminine thinking makes men weak–it is a poison that women use subconsciously.
I know why you were attracted to your friend in actuality. A power and reason compelled you to be.
Not really, but I appreciate the effort you put into your response. Thanks.
It was not at all a physical attraction. Good laugh though.
Explain why so.
Most of the teachings I have listened to I have heard from men. Actually All. And I can assure you they were not gay. Females and Males simply contain different sexual organs and needs. It does not mean that we are actually from different planets, I can assure you.
Please explain this power and reason. I don’t understand.
I will not attempt at proving my points. However, I wish to understand where you stand. It interests me.
I never implied that it was “all” physical attraction… The word “physical” doesn’t even mean anything to me.
Male happiness is a negative one. Female happiness is a positive one.
Coincidentally…
Why would I care if males are gay? I don’t. EDIT Actually, I do care (a little bit), but in ways that would take me a very long time to explain.
Don’t be disappointed when my knowledge of things does not rest on mere “assurances”.
Prove to me men & women aren’t from different planets. (the test is already rigged)
There is a reason there’s a 99.9% probability you will take a piss today (or night).
Good, I don’t expect for you to “prove” anything to me. If you want to, then I will listen. Other than that, I will entertain your interests, because my interests are similar. I’ll talk as long as people listen. And I’ll listen as long as people talk.
Someone should tell AIDS infected people they’re not wanting a cure badly enough.
Huh. How so? I still don’t understand…
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I’m not reading you.
Haha. You got me, Mr. R. =D>
Well, YOU, sir, are a pleasant surprise. People tend to become sudden assholes on the internet. In reality their chewing on granola bars and icecream sandwiches in front of their Dell computers and cruising the internet for lame comebacks acting like goddamn immature idiots. I appreciate that. REALLY. [-o< A difference between men and women…women can blame shit on that time of the month. I’m in the mood. 
Hahaha. 
Care to become the next Eckhart Tolle?
First of all, you should start with Satyr’s The Feminization of Man.
Basically, the only difference that I can explain to you about males & females is that we simply are different. Because I am a [male], there are going to be things about you, a [female] that I will necessarily never understand. The same works in the opposite manner–females will never “understand” males on a certain level. This is the way it has been, should be, and will continue to be for eons.
The practical difference: men want to fuck & kill (threats against women/social circles), women want to be fucked
It truly is that simple (on the surface). Once you investigate, you need to open the ultimate can of worms, your “self”.
Anytime. If I can teach, then I will teach. If I can learn, then I will learn.
I understand what you are saying. But I am simply wondering, not countering your thoughts at all, however why do the Men who have spoke of spirituality never spoken of this? What I mean by this is, these same words that you are writing to me have been written to me before. Just quite more elaborately. Heh.
I have heard of saints who will not even look at women for fear of lust.
But some have overcome it.
It is natural to want sex. If women did not want to be fucked and men did not Want to fuck, reproduction would be impossible. But then, why saints? Why do they not reproduce? It is simply a chain of life. I understand that the process should not be lusty. But does it not HAVE to be somewhat lusty in order to … Fuck? 
Some saintly persons do have children but I fail to understand how…? I’m having a very hard time picturing it…
You may counter my thoughts wherever it pleases you–I welcome it.
Men of “spirituality” have said many of the same things I’ve said before–the only thing that has changed has been language and expression of spirit.
What is the need for elaboration? There is none from my eyes. There is no need to sugar-coat the truth when the truth itself is where honey is made.
The religious man attempts to deny his nature and spirit to prove the absolute idealism of his corrupted dogmas. He does not realize his own hypocrisy for what it is–weakness. By attempting to strengthen the male spirit in this way, spirituality risks deadening the nerves and numbing the soul in order to live in idle existence.
I haven’t thought about this much yet, but there is likely a balance between philosophy and spirituality. Philosophy creates chaos; spirituality creates order.
Without the preacher, the male spirit becomes uncontrolled, killing, dominating, fucking, etc. everything insight (nothing is holy). This is when men become Living Gods. However, this can be too destructive, so the [God] must be taken out of him by society itself. Men & women alike, the meek, rise up and take “God” from him and make it their own. He dies. Society lives.
Then, the male spirit rises again, to restore the balance. This is just another flux, except it lives outside you or me in history. We are just the actors in the play.
The fear also attracts things, in my opinion.
What we fear at the surface consciousness can get compressed in subconscious area and the dream (I mean the nightmare) comes true, in some cases. 
Subconscious desires/fears tend to manifest more than that of surface conscious, I would say.
I don’t care to. I prefer humane conversation.
By elaboration I mean that you are not completely expressing your thoughts. I cannot understand you. You are simply stating half what you are thinking and so I am lost.
The bush of Moses was on fire, yet it did not burn.
I converse with others of my questions because I then come to know them through constant thought of what I had written.
One does not deny his nature, if he is truly a spiritual master. Many do. But the true spiritual persons simply accept all AS IT IS. They do not deny their identity or their nature. I had successfully numbed myself for years. I am well aware of those who do. You cannot hide your SELF. These masters let themselves inflame, yet they are not at all burned by their human nature.
If they were to have sex, they would endorse in it with what would seem passion. Yet, inside, they are untouched. Neutral. Those who are enlightened do as they please, yet pleasure hardly exists for them. For they commit to that which is demanded, enjoy it, yet are not at all burned. They are untouched. They are not affected by it emotionally or mentally, although psychically. In Fight Club, Brad Pitt does not feel the pain when he is burning his own hand or feel the pleasure when he is having sex. He is simply going through these actions. Neutral in all cases.
Interesting…