Law of Attraction

You are so beautiful to me, can’t you see; You’re everything I hoped for, everything I need – You are so beautiful to me…

Imagine if we all grew up hearing that song sung to us…

– J.B. Priestly

She was not pretty, but she might have been handsome if somebody had kept telling her that she was pretty.

In a recent movie, Johnny Depp was convinced he was Don Juan…  he told Marlon Brando, his therapist,  that the reason he was so attractive to women was — because he saw into the inner beauty of all women and in his seeing that, they saw it in themselves and actually became beautiful.

The song: How could anyone ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful– touches most people I know very deeply.  Most of us haven’t had a lot of people in our lives telling us how beautiful we are… In fact, most of the messages we have gotten from our families, our Churches, our music, our media – tell us that we don’t quite measure up.

Last year, when choosing the quality of God to focus on – I chose Beauty.  Or – I should say, BEAUTY chose me… because when I looked at the list, it jumped out at me and said – PICK ME — it’s time you worked on this…AND I DID…

Many of you have heard my story – but it bears repeating here —  I grew up surrounded by all my Italian relatives – and my best friend – other than my sister, was my cousin, Terry who happened to be a redhead.  Now, everywhere we went, people would stop and say to or about Terry – Isn’t she beautiful?  I, standing next to her, was convinced that I must be chopped liver –( I never really wanted to say ugly).   On the other hand, people would always say of me – she’s so smart… My cousin decided there and then that she must not be! – isn’t it amazing how we make assumptions from what we choose to hear?

Anyway – no little girl wants to be SMART…girls are supposed to be BEAUTIFUL  – so, I spent a good deal of my life trying to PROVE that I wasn’t smart… That’s one of the reasons that I went and got 3 masters degrees and two doctorates!  My cousin on the other hand, never went to college, convinced that she was destined to use her beauty instead of brains – she married 3x…I never did – didn’t think I was beautiful enough for anyone to want me…

One day, in graduate school, I was upset and crying about something – I can’t remember what – and the head of the Adult Education department at Columbia University came over and put his hand on my shoulder and said, “I can’t imagine why someone so smart and so beautiful could be so upset.”  At that moment, I came to recognize that I had made smart and beautiful an EITHER/OR.  It was as if he instantaneously wiped about years of pain.

Thank God, today,  I can now look myself in the mirror and sing…. “You are so beautiful to me”… and in fact, I can’t help but look at all of you and say the same thing…  FOCUSING on Beauty as a Quality of God has made an enormous difference for me — Whatever we focus on increases.  I see Beauty in all people I meet – I see beauty in nature and even in the circumstances of life that I would have previously called CHALLENGES.  There’s an exquisite BEAUTY in the way life is ordered.  You see, whatever quality you focus on, you get to Focus on GOD instead of where you think there is a lack or limitation, and so you get to see Infinite Potential everywhere.

Abundance is a Quality of God and a quality of the Universe. We certainly can see that in nature. Try counting the blades of grass, the stars in the sky, the grains of sand on a beach. Have you ever noticed that no matter what you think you’ll never have again in your life, MORE always shows up?  I used to live in New York and loved Broadway shows and went to see them all. The month before I went into a convent, my mom and I went to every show imaginable because I never thought I’d see one again. I’ve seen numerous ones since. We give up things and think we’ll never have them again. That’s seldom if ever true; there’s always more. You think there’s enough trouble in your life, and more shows up! There’s always more.

I once read that there were enough building materials for every person on this planet to have an estate, and enough food to feed everyone three times over, but it’s just not distributed. There is not a lack in the Universe. Where then must the discrepancy be? Anyone out there wondering, “How come I don’t have my share?” By now, you know the answer I’ll be giving:  it’s in our thinking. So, let’s focus now on how to THINK Abundance.

I would venture to say that there is some area of your life where you could use a boost, and some might even need a major overhaul. So, stop for a moment and think of something that you may want that you think is currently missing in your life. Got it? It may be health, money, a relationship, a new car, or a new house, whatever. All the books on prosperity that I have ever read say the same thing: everything that manifests in the physical world first starts with a DESIRE. We’ve got to get clear on what it is we want, and then when we ask, it is always given. So, if you are reading this and saying, “I don’t know”, well, then no wonder nothing shows up. It can’t show up if you don’t know. So you need to get very clear.

There are a lot of people who don’t want to want, because if they want and they don’t get, they think they will feel worse. So, they shut off all the wanting. We really don’t believe the Universe is abundant, so if we don’t want anything, we will never be disappointed. The Universe is telling us to get very clear. If you think you have everything, consider world peace. What you think you’d like more of doesn’t only have to be about accumulating things for yourself. If we get clear, it is always given.

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IF you find subtle ways you are more in complaint than in joy –  this is no need for further criticism.  This is what we do to ourselves – for example, it’s not a problem if we get rightfully angry at something that happens, but we get into trouble when we get angry over our getting angry – and start to condemn ourselves. Our whole purpose in life is to come more and more to love ourselves.
If you don’t yet love yourself enough, you have your work cut out for you for another year.  In what area of your life have you forgotten that you are God?   — take a look for a moment at the list we gave you when you came in….  let’s pause and let Spirit show you the quality IT wants to reveal more of in you this year…

There is no need for becoming something you aren’t yet.  It’s not a matter of achieving more, learning more, getting better.  It’s a matter of simply remembering the TRUTH about ourselves. We are made in the image and likeness of God.  The qualities that we know are true about God are therefore, also true about us. We need only to claim them as our own.