Quotes on Desire

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Doubt is the way you feel,
when you are focused in a way
that is CONTRARY to what you want.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Worrying is using your imagination
to create something that you don't want.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

You've got to practice the vibration of it, until the vibration of your desire
SUPERSEDES the vibration of doubt.

And when the vibration of your desire supersedes the vibration of doubt-
BAM!!! It happens.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

The bigger the dream is,
the more source has your back.

Abe

[Paradise-on-Earth]

When you place yourself in high vibrational state,
you become aligned with all of the abundance that exists within the universe.

In this state there is no such thing as impossible, no dream too big, no desire too great.
You really can have, be or do anything.

Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

You can have it ALL.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Wrong desires?


HS:
Is it possible to not have the right desire? (...)

Abe:
It's not possible for your desire to be wrong!
But it's possible for you to not have confidence in your desire.
And that causes the wobble, and then your desire doesn't come.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

When you feel negative emotion, say:
"Yippee! I've got desire!!"

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Any time you are wanting to accomplish something -because you have given birth to
a sincere desire, and now your chronic though, your habit of thought matches it, IT MUST BE, IT IS LAW!

But you will mess up your vibration any single time when you factor in other
people’s response to your desire. Because you can’t control their response,
and when you try, you don’t match your own vibration!
You can’t control their response, and if you care about what their response is,
you hold yourself in vibrational discord to your desire.

Excerpted from Toronto Workshop 9/20/2008

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Very famous segment!
"Stalking disinterested Fred?"


Guest:
I want to talk about a man. We’ll call him Fred. I saw him about 4 years ago, and everything inside me went, “SHAZAM, that’s just a beautiful person.” I felt all champagne bubbly inside. And I know that I had a good 15 years of momentum behind me that was negative, and he manifested right out of my experience before I had a chance to know him or he had a chance to know me.

So you and I talked about this a couple of years ago, and you told me not to get caught up in the form and if thinking of a person specifically caused negative feelings, then I should back off and focus on the essence of him and what I liked about him. And I tried that for awhile, but I never felt as good as I did when I thought specifically of Fred. And I criticized myself for doing it wrong. And then about a year ago I said, screw it, I’m just going to think about Fred in all the loving ways I can imagine. So I did that for a year and it was wonderful.

And just the other day, I saw him driving down my street! And I thought, this stuff really works!

So, I went to where he was staying and I ran the buzzer, and I did not get the response that I was imagining. It was, in fact, very, ah, weird, and not good at all. So I soothed myself by telling myself that maybe I’m not really as terrible at this as I think. Maybe he just doesn’t know what a good idea I am, and what a good idea we would be together.

At the same time, I thought, maybe I’m stopping the real love of my life from coming to me because I’m thinking of the specific thing. But I can’t let go of the specific thing.

Abraham:
Well, the most important question we want to put to you is, at what point did you decide that instead of working it out vibrationally to jump in with action? Why was it so compelling to jump in with action?

Guest:
You mean, why did I go ring the bell that day?

Abe:
Yes. You were creating it in thought. You were working it around and you had finally found a way to relax. You’ve been working on this for awhile and some thoughts were comfortable, and some thoughts were not. But brought yourself into quite a place of comfort. Then you began seeing some evidence of your motion forward, and rather than letting the Stream continue to carry you to the fruition, you must have lost your faith in the Stream’s ability to take you where you wanted to go and you decided to go ring the buzzer.

Guest: Yes!

Abe:
This is just our way of saying that you don’t have the timing the Universe has. And you want to say, is the Universe really taking me to Fred? We say that if you can trust the Universe knows all the good stuff that you got from Fred, and all the good stuff you got from John, and all the good stuff you got from Jim, and all the good stuff…If you could accept that you’ve been sifting through the sands of men for a quite very long time, and you have created a magnificent relationship of which Fred is a part, but not all inclusive. There is stuff that is really dominant in Fred that is nowhere near what is dominant in your vibrational escrow.

Meanwhile, the Universe knows full well what you want and knows where all of it is, and is calling you toward it and giving you evidence that you are focusing well, and all of a sudden, you want to jump in with both feet and all of your action and go ring Fred’s doorbell. And the Universe is saying, “wrong doorbell. Wrong doorbell.” (lots of laughter from the audience)

Guest:
But if Fred’s not right for me, shouldn’t I get to have some experience with Fred to decide that. But why does the Universe get to say, “Fred’s not yours”? (even more laughter)

Abe:
If you and Fred were really as much of a match as you portrayed it right now, you would already be in the midst of an extraordinary relationship. But Fred has all kinds of things activated that are not a match to your vibrational escrow. And we want to step back from the person we’re calling Fred, whose real name shall remain nameless to protect the innocent (more laughter). We want you to step back from the specifics of this and just accept that through all of this, that you are creating something wonderful.

What we’re really doing is encouraging you to have more patience and less action for a little while. But there’s nothing wrong with your action. You jumped in with action and you got a rebuff that you don’t want which kind of set you back a little bit. We’re not encouraging you to not act because you’ll ring the doorbell and mess up your creation. We are just encouraging you to let the Flow carry you a little further so that the inspiration is so compelling that nothing can keep you from it. Because when you respond in action under those conditions, then you don’t get the rebuffs.

In other words, if you act too soon before the energy’s lined up, you almost always get a backlash. That is the whole point of the Art of Allowing. The Art of Allowing is just release the resistance and allow. Releasing resistance and allowing are the same thing. Release the resistance and therefore allow. Release the resistance and therefore allow.

Release the resistance and therefore allow. Release the resistance and therefore allow. And as the Stream begins to carry you, the ideas that occur to you will always bring you the results you are wanting.

It’s not possible for you to not get what you are wanting. We’re just asking you to look a little further down the road. We just want you to act less and create with your mind a little more.

And you say, Abraham, I was doing that and frankly, I just tired of doing it. And we say you can’t get tired of doing that because that is the work. Even now, you have start where you are. You rang the doorbell and it didn’t turn out well, and you start again. And you say, it was easier before I rang the doorbell, and now I’ve got that to overcome. But we say, but still you can. But still you can. And as you do, more things will come your way.

Guest:
I want to know how do I let go? Because there’s a part of me that’s very tired. Not just over Fred, but of wanting that match. And if I have to let go of Fred, if Fred can’t be in my future for whatever reason…

Abe:
(interrupting) We don’t want you to let go of Fred. We don’t want you to let go of the essence of Fred. We don’t want you to let go of the idea of the relationship. We just want you to let go of the resistance. Which means we want you to let go of the need to control Fred.

How will you feel when you have let go of the control and you are letting the Universe do its work on your behalf? How can you tell?

Guest:
Supposedly, I’ll feel really good and I feel relief and I feel comfortable. Whenever thoughts of him come up and I feel comfortable, then I know I’m in the Stream. I’m letting go.

Abe:
And what kind of thoughts are you having when you are doing the opposite?

Guest:
When I think, he’ll never like me. It’s never going to happen. This is ridiculous. What am I doing? I’m fixated on something…

Abe:
And which kinds of thoughts do you think you think most? In terms of airtime? Percentage-wise? On a daily basis, do you have more positive or negative feelings about relationship?

Guest:
More of the time I’m working on it. Do you know what I mean? It’s a constant working on it with me.

Abe:
Now you’ve come ‘round to the subject of this discussion: is working on it helping???

Guest:
Obviously not.

Abe:
So how does one stop working on a situation? How do you stop doing that?

Guest:
I guess you try to stop thinking about all of it altogether.

Abe:
What you do is let your desire for relief be more important than your desire for Fred for now. Because both of them are in the same direction. And that’s why when you say, I’m just weary of this, we say, that’s a very good sign. Because when you’re weary, you’re getting ready to stop the struggle.

You see, we want to convince you that you can’t NOT get what you want, but you can prolong its coming by struggling against the current. And the reason we’re belaboring this with you, is because we want everybody to stop for a little bit and identify what are your reasons for pushing against things.

In other words, we know that you ultimately want the relationship that you want, so what is it that you, and almost everyone else, is unwilling to just let it go, to just drop it. Say, Step 1, Step 2, Step 3. Step 1: Boy, I’ve done that. I’ve launched my desires. Step 2 is Source answers which means it is already done, which means I’m being called toward it. Step 3 is I just have to allow myself to float freely on the current that moving toward what I want in a free flowing environment until I get there. If you know what you want is there and you know you’re floating, then why would you feel anything but joy?

We say, you wouldn’t, if you were floating. It’s the paddling upstream thing that makes it not fun. So just stop that. We would encourage you to just get off the subject for awhile. Find some other things that are important to you. Don’t belabor it. Don’t keep working at it. Don’t keep up the struggle. You see, every subject is really two subjects; what is wanted and the lack of it. It’s a fine line when you activate the subject of your desire, whether you activate it with the flow or against it. If you habit is to worry about it, then every time you activate it, you’re going to worry about it. You’ve got to find some way from disengaging from that need to do something about it.

We don’t want you to give up on your goal or give up on your desire. In fact, we know you can’t. You cannot be less than life has caused you to become. But you can allow yourself to go toward it or you can keep yourself from going toward it, and you can tell in the moment of discussion which you are doing.

So now, give us some reassuring words that let us know you are able to release the struggle and go with the flow.

Guest:
I very much want to believe that I can look upon something and say I want that, and not get wound up about it. And not get tensed about it. I want to be able to create specifically one day. I want to figure out how I can create specifically and be letting go at the same time.

Abe:
That’s the question of the day. In fact, it’s the question of this workshop. It’s the question of creating. It’s the best question we’ve ever heard. How do I find my place within this? If the Universe is orchestrating and if I am deciding through the deciphering, then how do I know if I’m getting in my own way? We say, tension starts to come over you. How do I know if I’ve gotten out of the way? I start to feel more relaxed. How do I feel when I’m hindering it? I don’t trust it. How do I feel when I’m helping it? I feel more trusting. How do I know when I’m going with the flow? It’s fun. How do I know when I’m not? It isn’t fun. How do I know when I’ve let go? I feel good. How do I know when I haven’t let go? I feel tense. How do I know when I’m free flowing? I feel ease. How do I know when I’m pushing against the current? I feel tense. How do I know when I’m succeeding and I’m going to get what I want? I’m flowing free. But, Abraham, I’m flowing free, but I don’t have Fred, so how do I know it’s working? And we say, because you’re flowing free.

Flowing free has to be what you’re after. Fred’s downstream. If you’re flowing free and Fred’s downstream, what is inevitably going to happen?

Guest:
I’ll run into him.

Abe:
You will! And when you do, it won’t be something that you’ve orchestrated. It won’t be false. It won’t be contrived. It won’t be manipulative. It will be a rendezvous that flowing Streams have orchestrated. And when it happens, and I come into contact, and I recognize and I see through the way I feel the perfection of this relationship, I won’t say, are you Fred? Because it won’t matter.

- North Los Angeles, 8-5-2006