SECRET INGREDIENT

“You can't rationally formulate a miracle. Miracles come not from intellect but from love.” ~ Marianne Williamson

I believe there is a great deal of misunderstanding around the whole concept of the ‘secret’ or the law of attraction and it has to do with what Marianne Williamson is talking about.  

It is a mistake to believe that you can simply wish with all your might for a Maserati for example, and expect it to appear.  If it doesn’t appear, hacks who misinterpret the law of attraction, will tell you that you just didn’t want it badly enough or that you wished for it ‘wrong’ or that you simply didn’t attend enough seminars with said hack. 

James Arthur Ray, (he was one of the original individuals associated with The Secret) was one of those hacks who misrepresented the law of attraction in an egregious manner.  It killed people.  The law of attraction is about like energy attracting like, so it’s not surprising that Ray attracted devastating circumstances to himself because he projected arrogant energy and used the methods of a charlatan.  There was no love in his energy not for himself and not for the people he professed to want to help.  If he truly understood the law of attraction, he would have realized that devastation was on its way to him.

Rather, the law of attraction is about tapping into our spirit energy which consists of love and gratitude for what we have in your lives right now AND, extending compassion and peace out toward others.  It is in the joy that we acknowledge and celebrate in our life that attracts more of the same toward us.  Paraphrasing Bishop T.D. Jakes, multiplying by zero still leaves you with zero, but acknowledging the good you have, no matter how hard you have to dig to find it, provides the Universe with something positive to multiply with.

If nothing else, bear in mind that for the really important things in life, there is no magic bullet, it requires work.  Judging by how many hacks actually get rich from selling magic bullets, most people will try and avoid this work like the plague.  But it’s the only way.  

Only with love and letting go of our selfish motivation, looking around to see how we can be of service to others, how we can show gratitude for the life we’re living now, can we truly draw miracles to ourselves.