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Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:57 am
by spiritualcookie
It is our observation that very often, the very action that you take in your attempt at getting what you believe is lacking, pushes that which you want away even more. Or more correctly stated: You attract the lack of what you want, to you, by the very feeling of lack that started the whole episode.

You may have experienced someone in your life who has very little appreciation for himself, or a low self-image.

Because he has a very deep, and very strong, desire to have value and to appreciate himself, he often offers behavior to make himself feel more important:

He is often critical of others in an attempt to like himself more.
Because he wants to like himself, he finds fault with others.

But his action does not get him where he wants to go.
For by the power of the Law of attraction, as one offers criticism, he is criticized, and as he is criticized, he is not uplifted, but deflated.
Therefore his action is of no value. In fact, it is detrimental to his intent to appreciate himself.


- Abraham

Re: On Criticizing

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:23 pm
by spiritualcookie

Is it ever a good idea to file a complaint about someone or something?

Jerry and Esther checked into a hotel, and the person at the front desk was in a terrible mood. and as Esther stood there, she couldn't help but take responsibility for her rendezvous point with it. And that even irritated her more. It's bad enough that somebody's being rude, but to accept your responsibility in meeting up with them...

And so, Esther thought about it and realized that it was sort of where she'd last left her vibration about that hotel.
And so it was logical.
And as she was talking to us about it, she was still wanting to say:
"But Abraham,, don't you think that maybe it would be beneficial for the hotel to know that they have a really rude person behind the desk?"
And we said: "Well, but which feels better, to pursue that thought, or to choose another thought that feels better?"
And Esther said: "Well, yeah, yeah yeah, But Abraham, don't you think that under these conditions, shouldn't somebody call somebody? Shouldn't something be done about this?"

The business person in Esther says: "Well, if my employees are mistreating people, I would like to know about it."
And we say, "No you wouldn't. You're better off not knowing about it."
In other words, let Law of Attraction shake it all down.
You don't have to be the monitor of that sort of thing.

- Abe

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Don't give energy to criticizm and complaining thoughts if it doesn't make you feel better

Which feels better, this thought of my mother, or this thought of my mother?
"But Abraham, you don't understand. This is who my mother is, mostly."
That wasn't the question.
Which feels better, this thought or this thought?
"But Abraham you don't understand..."
That wasn't the question.
Which feels better is the only question -
that's the only question that your Guidance System is asking.
Which feels better, this thought or this thought?
Which feels better, to praise or to criticize?
"Oh but you don't understand, there's nothing to praise and there's lots to criticize."
That's not our question: Which feels better?
Which feels better?
"But Abraham you don't understand. You didn't see what happened."
No we didn't. We're not vibrating there with you.
But our question to you is, which feels better? (...)

Nobody can get inside your head and make you think.
Sometimes it feels like it, because they're clamouring in your face so loud with whatever they're saying.
But you have the ability , if it is your desire, to feel good.
You have the ability to withdraw from whatever thought is bothering you,
get off to yourself and reclaim your connection to Source Energy.
And that is the freedom that you are looking for.

You have the ability to look here where there is not resistance.
Jesus said to turn the other cheek and that's exactly what he was talking about. (...)
Turn the other cheek and achieve vibrational harmony with that which feels better.

Abraham Hicks 1999

Re: On Criticizing

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:47 pm
by Paradise-on-Earth
About "being right"...

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!


Abraham

Re: On Criticizing

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:15 pm
by Paradise-on-Earth
ALL desires are "right" and get answered!

The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you.


--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Sacramento, CA on Saturday, May 13th, 2000

Re: On Criticizing

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:45 pm
by Paradise-on-Earth


Who you really are is someone
who adores life,
loves yourself
and loves others.


Abraham

Re: Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:16 pm
by spiritualcookie

When you think thoughts of criticism towards yourself, your Inner Being does not agree, for your Inner Being knows you to be wonderful, and talented and creative and good.

When you think thoughts of criticism towards others, your Inner Being does not agree, for your Inner Being understands that
- this Universe exists in a state of perfect balance, and that
- all thoughts and all experience is allowed.

Your Inner Being knows that there are many things that you do not choose,
for there are many things that your Inner Being does not choose -
but your Inner Being knows that your attention to the subject of what you do not want, IS CHOOSING IT,
and your Inner Being is too wise for that, and withdraws its attention.

- AH

Re: Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:43 pm
by Paradise-on-Earth
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Does the Planet need us to stop driving our SUV's?


HS:
One of the big topics these days, that is a subject of a lot of heated discussion and political activity is climate change. Global warming, and, uh, there's a lot of people that are very invested in suggesting that we are responsible for global warming and climate change, and therefore we can or should do something to alleviate it. In understanding that you look at things from a different perspective than most of us, I was wondering if you could enlighten us, as to whether or not we should be considering buying hybrids, and uh, getting rid of our SUVs, and uh, generating power in green ways, and all those other things- to see if we can, uh, lower the temperature of the planet? Or are we just wasting our time, and it will all take care of itself anyway?

Abe:
Well, it will all take care of itself, that is certain.
It's a sort of tricky subject, because when we say to you that you create your own reality, we mean that in every sense of the word. You create your own reality! But you do not create someone else's reality. So, as we have these discussions, it is of great interest to us to help you recognize your vibrational gap, and manage it.

But you never hear us talking about managing someone else's vibrational gap!

So, as we are interacting with humans, sometimes we meet someone- in fact almost all humans that we meet, your vibrational gap seems to be continually influenced by what other people are doing. Not because they have power in your experience, but because you've got your nose in their business! So, two people- let's say, two people who want... (stay with us: we're really answering your question! It just seems a bit off the way!) ...two people, who -let's say they're living together, who seem to want two different things.

If this one would focus upon what he wants, and become a vibrational match to it, the universe must deliver it to him, in the fullest sense of the word. And if the other wants what they want, -even though it's different from what the other wants!- and if this one focuses upon it completely, then the universe must deliver it!

And so, both
-even when they're living together,
-even when they're cooperating together,
-even when they're working together,
each of them can receive exactly what they want. Provided, each of them focuses upon exactly what they want!

But what happens with most humans is: This one wants what they want, but notices what that one wants. So, this one's vibration isn't in alignment with what they want! And this one knows what they want, but notices what that one wants- so this one's vibration isn't in alignment with what they want.

So now neither one of them are a match to what they want.
Neither one of them are getting what they want-
and they're both blaming each other for it.

Now let's take a human and a beast, one of the magnificent animals on your planet. The more you domesticate them, the more they begin to act like you do! But animals, for the most part, don't have a difficult time managing their own gap. They live their contrast, they give birth to what they want, they line up with it and...

the beasts of your planet are doing a better job of allowing, than most humans are!

The beasts of your planet are much better allowers than the humans of your planet. They are born in vibrational alignment with Source! Nothing that they live gets them much out of alignment with Source, and they are inspired from that calling. And human... when human watches the beasts of your planet, human calls it Instinct in the Beast. We call it alignment! Alignment, and seeing the world through the eyes of source, and responding to the world through the eyes of source!

Now let's talk about the planet. And we want you to understand that the planet -like you!- is a being also!
In other words, it is infused with Spirit. It has Soul, as you do. Just as every particle of Consciousness, even that which you call dirt does, so your planet is an extension of source energy. It was once an idea or a thought, that was thought upon. But it is a being in its own right! And it is having its experience of expansion, as are all of the participants upon it.

So, in the same way that we were leading you to understand
-that human can align with what he desires, and accomplish it easily;
-that the beast is more likely to do that, because he is less Intoxicated by the resistance-prone ideas; and
-your planet is even more than the beast in alignment with its own expansion.

Now, human is easily influenced by other humans.
Beasts are rarely influenced by other humans!

Earth is never influenced by human!


So what that means- in other words, it's like a very small flea on the back of a very big dog, the amount of influence that you actually have about it!
So, what we notice about humans, and this goes back to what we were talking about as we began here today, -as you explore this contrast, so many of you want to find a problem in order to be motivated to a solution. So many of you want to find a way to control conditions, so that you can have better feeling responses to conditions! But when any of you begins to see your world through the eyes of source- then you understand.

And this is what the last part of your statement is: That you have nothing to worry about!
Because you understand, that in the same way, that anything that any of you live in contrast, causes you to ask for something more, that the source energy -which is feeding everything from its origin, is always answering from that Leading Edge perspective! We'll say that in another way: Even if humans could affect the planet... let's just play that game for just a moment! So let's say that your planet is really out of balance.

Which causes all of the people on the planet in the evaluating of that contrast, to desire the realignment of the planet!

-As you're giving birth to that desire, and source is answering that desire, and old ornery resistant ones are croaking, and new in-alignment ones are being born, and those like you, who are old and ornery and coming into alignment... what you begin to understand is: That with every problem there is a solution! With every question, there is an answer.

Which means, you will never get yourself, in terms of your Earth-life, in a place where where you are so out of balance, that you cannot receive the answer, or the improved life-experience that you are asking for! It's just too big of an environment, with so much well-being.

We touched on this briefly, as we began about the the enormous well-being of the source-energy part of you. And how law of attraction is responding to that, so much so, that we could say accurately: Every human on the planet could get so out of whack vibrationally, that you could be depriving yourself for the most part of the well-being that is there for you, and all you would do is create a miserable life for yourself, again and again and again self self self self self -all the trillions of you.

But in all of that, you're launching further rockets! So, that the new ones being born, are even more in a place of alignment than the generation that came before! In other words, the expansion is always better! What comes next is always better than that, which came before. And it is just such an interesting thing to watch, generation after generation, look around their planet to find things that are wrong with it! And try to use what's wrong as their justification for then asking for something, or letting something be improved... When it's just the natural process of all things!

The population of your planet is managed from that broader non-physical perspective.

Don't you find it remarkable, that humans have not been able to gather enough dirt together, to launch into orbit, to create another planet? In other words, that is so illogical! And so, when you step back just a little bit and you try to see your planet through the eyes of source, you understand
it is not diminishing.
It is not fading.
It is not in trouble!
It is thriving!

And it is thriving in the next generation even more, than the last generation. And it has always been thus! And it always will be thus!

HS:
And I understand that, and I know that. And my concern is, that more and more people are coming from the other viewpoint of thinking, somehow they can do something...

Abe:
Doesn't matter! All they are doing, is using that one thing, one more thing, as their excuse to not allow their own alignment with Source. That's all!

In other words, we know -even in an audience as enlightened and leading edge as this one, we can feel your confusion on this topic. Because your logic says, almost all people have been taught from the begin of their experience, that you are either born flawed or that you are reaching a peak, that you are sliding away from later. In other words, you're all worried about this, this, uh "prime of life" that you are then sliding down from. And somehow you've got yourself convinced that the Earth has gone past her prime, and now she is sliding down into into endedness.

And we want you to understand: It does not work this way!
The universe is this expansive, ever increasing, always, always evolving experience! It is. It has always been true, and always will be!

So, what comes next will always be more expansive. More expressive, and potentially more enjoyable than what came before!

So the worst thing that could happen to an individual, is that he could find something -whether it's global warming or terrorism or government, or spouse, or anything that he uses as his excuse to not allow himself alignment with that broader perspective. Think about what we're talking about here today! How you are Source energy. You come into this experience, and the contrast causes you, as Source-energy, to become yet more.

And it's only when you don't go, to that which you become, that you feel worse.
So, think about that in terms of this conversation over global warming! Think about why it is so disruptive and so uncomfortable for people, who are beating the drum of those sorts of of things, when every fiber of your non-physical non- beingness knows that we are all eternally expanding.

And knows, that this time-space-reality is the stuff that causes the Catalyst for the expansion! And so, to have all that life-experience, that's accumulated in the eternal nature of your being, and then to be focused in saying "but wait, there's a flaw in this whole process! And this Earth, upon which I am standing is dying. And it is my fault!"

-Have you ever heard a string of sentences, that is more out of alignment with what you know your Source knows about all of those subjects??

HS:
So, do I spend my time following my Bliss, staying in alignment with me, focusing on what I want and and putting the emotion behind it, and ignore all the folks out there, that want to, uh, change the way I live, and how I'm taxed, and what I'm allowed to do... because they are so concerned, uh, uh, and they think that somehow I'm... because I'm driving a car and using premium gasoline, I'm going to destroy their habitat... or do I, do I pay any attention to any of that? Or do I just recognize what I know to be true, that you've just explained so eloquently, and just go on, about finding my own bliss?

Abe:
Well we'll we'll reflect that question back to you in another way. In more the Abraham-speak, that we gave you earlier: Can you control those conditions?

HS:
Certainly not.

Abe:
And, and... can you be happy without controlling them?

HS:
I'm working on it.

Abe:
You see, that's got to be the answer! They must be allowed to feel, however they feel! Just as you must be allowed, to feel however you feel. We're saying, they may very well be using you, and what they think you're doing to your planet, as their excuse to not allow their connection with source. And in their not allowing their connection with with Source, they may, very well, then be trying to motivate people to action. Because, after all- so many people of the world are trying to affect conditions, so that they feel better, in looking at those conditions!

But it's too big and they try and try on subject after subject- and they eventually give it up. Everything always falls of its economic weight! It always does.


From the youtube-clip:
Abraham Hicks 2024 || Get Ready A Big Global Shift Is Coming ! || Abraham Hicks


Outtake:

Planet Earth

Let's talk about the planet. And we want you to understand that the planet -like you!- is a being also!
In other words, it is infused with Spirit. It has Soul, as you do. Just as every particle of Consciousness, even that which you call dirt does, so your planet is an extension of source energy. It was once an idea or a thought, that was thought upon. But it is a being in its own right! And it is having its experience of expansion, as are all of the participants upon it.


So, in the same way that we were leading you to understand
-that human can align with what he desires, and accomplish it easily;
-that the beast is more likely to do that, because he is less Intoxicated by the resistance-prone ideas; and
-your planet is even more than the beast in alignment with its own expansion.

Now, human is easily influenced by other humans.
Beasts are rarely influenced by other humans!

Earth is never influenced by human!


Abraham Hicks

Re: Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:36 am
by spiritualcookie
When you critically judge someone as doing something wrong or bad, you are disconnected from all-accepting, all-loving-Source

There is not rightness or wrongness,
there is alignment or not.
There is allowing who you ARE to flow in this moment,
or there’s pinching yourself off.

There’s worthiness or lack of worthiness.
There’s clarity or confusion.
There’s being who you are, or not being who you are.

(...) Do you know that every person, no matter how abhorred their behavior is in any moment of time
—Source is loving them,
and when you’re looking at their action [which you dont like]
instead of the part of them that Source is looking at,
then you’re gonna disconnect from Source?

And that’s why you feel bad.
Not because they’re abhorrent or doing wrong.
But because you’ve used them as your excuse to disconnect from Source,
who never disconnects from Source.
Isn’t that good to know?

~ Abraham-Hicks, Houston, March 19, 2016

Re: Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:38 am
by spiritualcookie
Aren't some things just plain wrong and justifiably criticized?

Esther will say from time to time,
“Oh come on, Abraham. You gotta give me this one. (audience laughs)
You cannot not be noticing THAT. It’s so big, and it’s so bad and it’s so WRONNG!!!” (audience laughs)

And we say, we notice it. We just don’t see it as wrong.
We just don’t condemn it.
We see it, and immediately take from it what we prefer,
and immediately turn our undivided attention to what we prefer.
And if you will do that, you will feel as good- as we do!

-Abe (Autistic Revolution DVD)

Re: Quotes On Criticizing by Abraham Hicks

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:47 am
by Paradise-on-Earth
What Jealousy is

But you know the one called jealousy! The one, when you see something that another has and you want it. But you don't have it, and your Inner Being is shouting to you loudly and clearly that you want this. But you're focused in opposition of it, right now- you're taking the non-physical energy of the universe and sending it in opposition of what you really want. And so, what we would say to you is:

It is alright for you to want anything!!
And we would not call you vain. We would call you a Wanter!


Abraham Hicks