Contrast & Lack (the wrong end of the stick)

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(See also Non-Abe Quotes on Contrast: 1)

See also Quotes on Bad Things in the World

We want you to remember most of all:
The contrast, no matter how it looks in any moment, is contributing mightily to your expansion.

And the thing that you call things going wrong in your life experience
are actually only the distance between the things that are so right
and your current perspective about it.

In other words,
if you could just accept that you have amassed a huge vibrational fortune that is ready for you to begin tapping into immediately,
and all that is required in order to tap into it is a willingness to look in the direction of what you want,
which will cause you to no longer look in the direction of what you don’t want…
life will begin to get better for you, not tomorrow, not after a week, but right now.

~ Abraham-Hicks

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As you emerged, suddenly you were surrounded by a mother who was worried that you might not be safe,
and you were surrounded by a world that was guarded against all sorts of things,
and in their well-meaning-ness are teaching their guardedness to you.

So right away you felt the contrast of that which feels good and that was not.

And so, in trying to fill up that void, that’s where you gathered the majority of your ideas of what you want.
From a place of void you said, “If I could have more money, I wouldn’t feel this void.
If I could find more people to love me or appreciate me, I would not feel this void.”

Almost every behavior that you see from almost every person that you witness is offered from that place of void.

And we say to you: There is not enough action –
you cannot attend enough seminars to teach you how to get that stuff
because that stuff is all in an effort to fill up a void,
a void that is only there because of the absence of your Inner Being,
where the absence of your Inner Being is only happening because your choice of thought in this moment vibrates out of harmony.

Your Inner Being vibrates in Pure Positive Energy –
when you think a thought, that thought vibrates, and as it vibrates it either vibrates in harmony with, or in harmony not with the vibration of your Inner Being.
It is really as simple as that. (...)

You say, “They’re self-confident.”
We say they’re filled with the presence of their Inner Being.

You say, “They’re happy.”
We say they’re filled with the presence of their Inner Being.

You say, “They’re physically healthy.”
We say they’re filled with the presence of their Inner Being.

That is the only thing that is important to acknowledge,


~ Abraham-Hicks
Dallas TX 12/7/1991

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You are coming to understand the value of contrast.

If you do not know what you don't want,
you cannot know what you do want.

(...)

More clarity comes about what is wanted from your awareness of what is not wanted.

- Abraham, 1994, Omaha, Nebraska workshop

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The challenge causes you to focus.
The challenge causes you to feel.
Every challenge or problem there’s another end of the stick
that you can’t see while you’re focused upon the problem.

But as you relax and breathe the problem away
you’re left with the other end of the stick.

So lots of times the problem will be activated first
which will cause you to focus yourself into the solution.

– Abraham Hicks

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The Value of Contrast

Sometimes it is of value to live in a house with not enough closets
so that you are knowing that the next house that you are choosing
will have more closets.

- Abraham Hicks

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Do not underestimate the value of your preferences,
for the evolution of your planet depends upon those of you on the Leading edge of thought
continuing to fine-tune your desires.
And the contrast or variety provides the perfect environment fo rthe formation of your personal preferences.

Abraham

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As you are standing in the midst of contrast,
new desires are radiating constantly from you
in the form of vibrational signals that are received and answered by Source -
and in that moment, the Universe is expanding...

These Teachings are not about the expanding Universe
or about Source answering your every request,
or about your worthiness -
for all of that is a given.
They are about you putting yourself in a vibrational place of receiving all that you are asking for.

Abraham

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The contrast or variety never ends,
so the sprouting forth of new desires will never end.
And as that "asking" never ends,
the "answering" never ceases to flow.
And so, new contrasts and new inspiring desires and perspectives
will be laid out eternally before you.

- Abraham

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Stop using the word "struggle".
Use a less strugglesome word,
like, "I'm sifting"

- Abraham Hicks

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Whenever you find yourself beating the same old drum about your [desire or your current unwanted situation],
if you would make an effort to turn your thoughts downstream,
and stay focused upon the subject until you feel a slight turn,
in a very short period of time you will improve the vibrational relationship between where you are
and what you want.
And you will be amazed at the leverage this improved vibration will give to your process.

- Abe

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Step 5 is slipping out into resistance or contrast again,
but not being mad at yourself,
understanding the value of the contrast.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Step 5 is,
where you not only accept the contrast as important to the equation,
but you revel in the contrasting experience that causes you to FOCUS.

And now you've come full circle. Now you are on top of life! Now, nothing bothers you.
Because you know, IT'S ALL FOR YOU!

Now, nothing bothers you, because you know that you've attracted every bit of it.
Nothing bothers you, because you know it's the clarity that you've been seeking.
Nothing bothers you, because you know you have mastery of your own ability to focus.
Abraham Hicks

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You are here to bring yourselves to a joyful state of being, moment by moment, day by day, as you chew upon the data of life.

As you stand in your now, aware of where you want to be, or even aware of where you are going,
your tendency is to note the "lack" of where you are.

As you contrast now with future success, what you usually are feeling is the pain of the Lack of the Now.
And as you feel the Lack of the Now, your now will remain unchanged.


- AH


No matter how much you want something,
and no matter how much you believe that you can have it,
if you are in your now, noticing that it is not yet here,
you are focused upon the lack,
and the lack of it is what you are attracting,
and you could remain in that position of attracting lack forevermore.

- Abraham

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You have a powerful desire to be well, to be secure, to be successful and to be strong, and it is, without exception, from attention to the lack of these desires that you negatively create.

The reason the desires exist so strongly within you is because, unconsciously, you recognize that from your broader perspective, you are well, you are secure, you are successful, and you are strong.

- Abe