Introducing the Abe Quotation sub-forum We've been noticing more and more members enjoying and sharing Abraham's words of wisdom in many different forms. The momentum of such generous sharing has caught our attention so we've created a place here on the forum to assemble such gems "under one roof," so to speak.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS WORLD, it is not broken.
And don't worry about others. You worry more about them, than they do.
There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield
who are more alive than they've ever been before.
Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience
while you focus upon your own experience.
We're saying to all of you, who are so interested in finding the "reality" of things, and trying to find the rightness of reality, and sorting out alllll of the components of life on the planet, we say:
Ooh what a big job you have, first of all! And what really a waste of time it is to try to sort it all out, and put it into good piles and bad piles, when what you really want to do, is let life cause you to expand. And then, do the only thing that is necessary, or that you can do, or that is a value to you, or that will help you fulfill your reason for being!
There is only a stream of well-being. And that that, which is non-physical, is of that stream.
But we also say to you, that every thought that has ever been thought still exists. And so, as the spin-off of men's conscious mind continues experience after experience, century after century, there's a lot of thought data, that is there in your lifetime. The movie industry has added dramatically to the way man spins his thoughts around the subject! The religions... the information that is coming from the pulpit, so much more information about the devil and evil, than about good and god.
And so, if you talk to little children who go to church often, they will tell you more about the devil than they will about god!
It gets their attention more. It is something more to worry about, you see! And so, what we notice is that in your environment where contrast helps you to identify what is wanted, sometimes humans get a little... uh, bent on pushing against the part they don't want. And they don't get tuned quick enough to the new idea that is coming out of the contrast!
And so, there is a lot of thought, but all of it coming from man's conscious mind.
How un-aware parenting works, and how it creates children who become non-inspired action-oriented rather than children who listen to their inner guidance for inspired action
You parents hold a specific philosophy of life. It is a combination of:
- what their parents believed and
- what they have personally experienced.
And in most cases, those two are not far apart - because their parents planted the "seeds of expectation" that they are now living out.
And as you enter their experience, they begin to teach you their evolving philosophy,
They hold expectations for your behaviour and very early in your experience, you come to know what they expect.
Your parents do not understand that you have within you a very strong quest for harmony,
And in most cases they believe that if you were left to your own discovery, that you would discover wrong things.
So in their intent to protect you from what you believe is wrong or evil or harm, they offer guidelines or rules of behaviour. If you break a rule, you reap the negative return: Your parents are angry, or disappointed, or they may even offer more obvious punishment.
And so you [the child] modify your action to conform with the rules - or at least to make them believe you are conforming - not out of your positive quest for harmony, but out of your negative awareness of the repercussions that will exist if you don't. You act. Indeed you do. But not from a point of joy.
Should children be allowed to have complete freedom or should parents offer some control?
It is not easy for parents to release their children.
Parents like the idea of freedom as it relates to them.
They just don't like the idea of freedom as it relates to their children.
They say to their children, "I am free in the Universe, but you are not.
I am free to think and be as I choose, but you are not because you are too little and not smart enough to figure out what is good for you."
It starts when you're young, and then you wonder why it carries on until there are still those, when you are grown ups, that treat you that way, you see.
You are either free, or you are not. [...]
And so, we say, a parent must allow their child the freedom to have experience.
How else is the child able to do what he came here to do?
If the child has someone else making all decisions for him, he will never learn to decide for himself.
He will never be the deliberate creator he has come forth to be.
And the child resents and resists and rebels from that feeling of not enough freedom.
How we teach and get taught to listen to others- instead of following our inner guidance
A man said to us one day, years ago: "(...) My mother hates me. My father hates me. I have a hard time!" -and we said: "How do you feel about your mother?" and he said: "I hate her, too. I hate her, because she hates me." And we said: "So, neither one of you are coming into alignment with who you are! And you're using each other as your excuse, why not to come into alignment.
When what you've come forth to teach is: Alignment, anyway.
What you've come forth to teach is: "I can align with the source within me, regardless of what those outside of me are reflecting back to me. And this is the most significant thing about this! Almost everyone, even those who've been listening to us for a while, cannot separate how they feel about things from how other people feel about things.
So, most people... in other words, almost the first thing you do with your children is: You teach them patterns of behavior, that make your life better or that you think will make them have an easier time in the society in which they will live. And as you convince your children, that they should do what you want them to do: "you should do what makes them feel better", rather than what closes their gap for them!
In early ages you teach them to listen outside of themselves.
That's why we have a room full of people in every city that we visit, who are accustomed to listening more to what's coming from another person... in other words, approval is so meaningful to you, when it comes from other people. And disapproval is so meaningful to you, when it comes from other people.
And we want that disapproval or approval, that comes from other people- even if it's your mother!- to not matter to you as much as the way you feel!
And that's what we said to this man, "that's what you've come forth to teach!"
You've come forth to teach. Because when you say to your child: "You need to do such and such, so that I will feel better"- then you set them up to listen to another and another and another. Until before long, most everybody is more interested in what everybody else thinks! And then they've lost track of their ability to quantify their journey.
Honor others (and yourself!) for following their inner, unique guidance!
(Dealing with Pain, with gay people, with all sorts of Uncontrollables and "disorders"...)
We're visiting with a woman one day who had pain in her body and she said: "Abraham, how can I think positive thoughts when my body hurts so much? And we said: "we know what you're living is what it is. But there's a difference between having pain in your body, and feeling fear- and having pain in your body and feeling hope.
And the difference between fear and hope is the vibrational difference between recovery or not.
In other words, we were trying to teach her how to quantify the journey between sickness and wellness. How to feel her way, you see, where most people aren't encouraging anybody to feel their way into vibrational alignment, in order to have a better life! They're trying to teach them, they're trying to motivate them to respond to this rule, and to respond to this law, and respond to this disapproval or this approval.
So it is rampant in this civilization today- it is rampant almost nobody is listening to their own guidance!
Almost nobody is deliberately closing their gap.
Almost everybody cares what somebody else says or thinks, about what they're doing!
And so many people are coming forth, saying "well, try this one on, because this is an orientation that was set forth, before I came forth into this physical experience! And I can't change it, even if you want me to", you see. And so, there are all kinds of ornery little buggers being born- and we don't mean that from our point of view. We mean:
Pioneers of deliberate, powerful creation.
Teachers to the core of their being!
But they're being greeted by those who are immediately slapping labels on them. Like, oh there are so many. Like nonconformist with lots of different labels... "uncontrollable". Uh, "you have this disorder and this disorder and this disorder and this disorder!" -and we say:
Yay for the disorders! All of these disorders coming forth! The non-conformist coming forth, to teach unconditional love!
You see... and so, it is so delightful when you are able to assist someone. It's a great gift you give to someone, when you say: "Well this is what is. And I'm not going to change it, so that you can feel better! This is what is."
And it's a hard thing to do, because you want them to be happy. So, when Kate wants to come to see Esther, and Esther really wants Kate to come- but Esther's got a big long list of things that she needs to do. So, Esther says "be better if we don't do it today!" and Esther hears the disappointment in Kate's voice. It's hard for Esther not to change something, to make Kate feel better. Because Esther would run over herself with the bus, if she thought it would make Kate feel better. But we want Esther to let Kate work it out on her own! And, she would, every time.
You don't need to study LoA to successfully apply it!
You are constantly in a life-giving "workshop"! That is always letting you know, what your vibrational nature is. You can tell in every moment, whether you're letting it in or not!
Once you know the way the game is played (...) you can tell when you're letting it in. (...) You could start out as a little child, who has a grandmother, who understands the idea of being lucky, who conveys to you that you're lucky. Who reinforces it with you, just a little bit: And you can always have things going well for you, without having any knowledge about Law of Attraction!
You don't have to speak the Law of Attraction-language, in order to be offering a vibration that lets wellbeing flow!
