the intricacies of now

I recently read an e-mail that was sent to me by people who are involved with quantum life changes. There is a tremendous truth in the words. The reality and wisdom of the words is something we all can immediately understand. Why we don't remember, or at the very least, try to follow these words of wisdom, is a philosophy that seems to elude me. Here is what I'm talking about:

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. You become addicted to thinking, feeling and living the old story of the past and future which robs you of the incredible NOW. You never experience the present or connection with Inner-Being which is that state of pure love.

When you look at other people and their lives, and judge them as being good or bad, positive or negative, or condemn their thinking and actions, you create those thoughts and perceptions in your own reality. Whatever or whoever you judge, you become. Those thoughts create an emotion within you and a feeling which is realized in every cell in your body. When you judge, you victimize yourself because you, not they, experience the effects of your judgments. When you condemn another for something, you are only condemning aspects of yourself seen within them. That is why those qualities in another are so easy for you to identify. That is why your attention is drawn to those aspects.

So what does all of this mean? When you expect others to do as you do, think as you think and behave how you believe they should, you are trying to control the actions of others so that you can feel better to fill a void inside of you. It is always about you. It is your choice how you feel. When your happiness is dependant upon the actions of others, you will find yourself constantly trying to control circumstances so that you can be okay.

The phrase, ‘You cannot truly love another until you love yourself’ are not empty words. It is a basic truth. Love comes from within and reflects outward into the hearts and minds of those around you. It magnetizes those into your life who experience the same. That is universal law.