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Voices of the Past
In physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction; the same applies to the realm of the mind.
Every thought you nurture, especially profound beliefs and openly expressed convictions, will create both its intended result and its conceptual opposite, and will somehow manage to attract both of them into your reality.
You can think of this as reality testing you to see if you meant it, and outlandish as it seems, it works with incredible consistency, and in ways too blatant to miss.
I don’t know why that happens – the principle of balance, unconscious resentments from opposing thought groups, contrarian reactions, good old-fashioned spite.
The important point is your thought will always bring its outcomes into your life, and also an opposing view of equal strength.
That opposition, that resistance, will challenge you directly.
If you embrace pacifism, you will gather a following of peace-loving individuals but have no other choice than to wage war.
If you spread a message of love, you’ll resonate with love in the world and also find plenty of reasons to despise people.
Being open-minded draws in like-minded people, but it can also unknowingly steer you towards embracing prejudiced ideologies.
Choosing certain individuals over others is inevitable if you promote equality and strive for social justice.
The concept that we draw both our karma and its opposite, regardless of our actions, is not comforting, however, recognizing this can help soften the irritation of having our thoughts mirrored back to us, both as expressed and in the negative, especially when we believe them to be virtuous and valuable.
How to defeat this perverse feature of reality? I’m not sure we can, or should. Reality managed to keep itself in balance despite our hubris and delusion that we can make it better, and progress, when made, is slow and delivered in homeopathic doses.
Knowing this happens will keep you humble, so when you invariably become the opposite of everything you believed yourself to be, even briefly and in insignificant ways, or when the perfectly crafted theoretical model you devoted yourself to yields less than palatable unexpected results, you’ll treat yourself with kindness and get back on the wagon of enlightened thought without surrendering to self-loathing.
The world is filled with complexities and unintended consequences, but if you persist in your intention, things will eventually align in your favor.
The metaphor of changing the course of an ocean liner comes to mind, together with the understanding that changing the course of the latter is an action requiring continuous effort, focus and control, and it encounters constant resistance.
In conclusion, what are the points worth remembering?
- Every thought attracts into your life its physical consequences and its theoretical opposite.
- Resistance to your thought is commensurate to its power.
- The underpinnings of society are unconsciously primed to test you, to see if you value your core beliefs and moral principles as much as you claim to do.
- Expecting this to happen will keep you from running amok with your theoretical concepts and losing touch with the practical consequences thereof.
- Consistency of thought eventually triumphs over the constant and equally strong opposition every one of our ideas and intentions attracts, but it does so slowly and requires sustained long term effort.
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