A friend and I went to a screening of "the Secret" which was aired at a local center. When I came home, I discussed the movie with another friend. She was very distraught and berated me, "This doesn't sound like Jewish Hashkofa. We don't always get what we want and we have to know that Hashem does everything for the best, whether we understand why our requests are fulfilled or not."
This morning I received an email from Rhonda Byrne from the Secret Daily Teachings.
The reader is asked to imagine sending an email with a request to the Server of the Universe.
If you begin to worry and stress that you haven't got what you wanted, then you have just sent another email to the Universe to stop your order. And then you wonder why you haven't received what you asked for.
Once you Ask, know that the Server of the Universe is an automatic infallible system that never fails, and expect to receive your request!
Once I read the above words, I realized that my friend's words were so right. It is dangerous to think that anything we ask for will be greeted with a positive response. Sometimes our requests are not in our best interests. Imagine if I had really wanted a job at the World Trade Center during September 2001. Had I been turned down for the job, I could have been disappointed and upset that G-d had not fulfilled my request for something I really wanted. But, on September 11, I would have realized how being turned down for the job was the best thing that could have happened to me.
Like everything, it has to be understood in context. G-d is not a vending machine. But we do have powers that we don't know we have, and it behooves us to use them as consciously as we can.
ReplyDeleteThe Zohar says that the face we show to shamayim is the face shamayim will show to us.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe so often quoted "think good and it will be good" and promised that absolute bitachon is an absolute guarantee of only revealed good.
And there is so much more in chassidus about this phenomenon. Not to mention that in many cases, even for a non-religious person, the so-called law of attraction does work.
Just because when you throw a rock it falls does not mean that it's always the best idea to throw rocks. But at certain times, in certain ways, it probably is.
As we approach geula, more and more is being revealed about our own powers. Whether the internet, nuclear energy, or the effects of our expanded consciousness ... it all has to be used in accordance with the Torah in order to create good things instead of bad.
watch this video of mannis friedman the secret
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Thank you for providing a link to the video.
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