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Should You Remain Silent?
28th March 2008
Should you tell your partner, your friends and your co-workers about your spiritual beliefs?
When I first learned of the Law of Attraction, I kept insanely quiet about it and did not let on to any of my friends or family about it. I studied in silence as my inner-being was awaking to something that felt so right to me.
My immediate family do know about my spiritual beliefs and so do my closest friends, yet I don’t believe its always right to go out and tell anyone about your beliefs.
As humans we have a desire within us to share something that we believe to be “right” and “true”. What we are really seeking is validation. We want someone to agree with us and tell us we’re doing a great job and you’re on the right path. Of course, someone else’s opinion should mean nothing to you – what you think is the only opinion that counts.
Many people just aren’t ready to hear about spiritualism. There will come a time when it is a necessity, but right now the majority of people are still stuck in their habitual thinking patterns and overruled by ego.
My personal family are quite the same and are firmly rooted with their ego’s. The fact was and is, that they are just not ready for what us “Law of Attraction practitioners” know. (If you practice the LOA then I call you a practitioner.)
That’s not a bad thing, nor is it a good thing. It “just is”. I don’t try and change anyones beliefs unless they seek the change themselves.
Coming back to the point of this blog post… should you stay silent or should you let on about the spiritual side of you? I say follow your gut instinct in every instance. If you feel compelled to share and it feels right for you to do so, then do so! Even if the initial response you get is not what you were expecting, you’ve probably just planted a seed that will continue to grow for that person.
On the other hand, if it doesn’t feel right for you to say anything about it, then that is the right thing for you to do. I was like this with my family for a long period of time.
Eventually, I stepped up the courage and followed my gut instinct to share the film “The Secret” with my brother. He responded to the film just like I did when I first watched it and he felt a new awakening within. Although he hasn’t taken any action to further his development, the seeds have been planted. I’m certain that when things become too miserable for him to handle, he’ll turn to that side of him that was awoken for just a few minutes that day.
Pain and misery are responsible for so much conscious awakening that it can’t possibly be considered “bad”. Investigate all of the “gurus” and their pasts… you’ll very quickly realize that it is the pain and misery that pushed them to where they are today.
Hi, I agree with you and am doing a soul search. I was raised in a very strict home do Do’s and Don’ts so this is a private search for me as well.
The Law of Attraction is quite facenating to me as I love to find just that exact parking place in a crowded place and am grateful. The bigger things like attracting persons to my blog or attracting cash flowing to me thru my online ventures is a challenge for me. Maybe I just need to get-out of my own way, but that isn’t quite clear on how to accomplish that yet.
Good blog Gary.I just try to shine and occasionally they wonder whats going on that I could feel so good. Creates an opening if you want to take it.
Interesting post and question Gary. Having recently renamed my blog Law of Attraction in Action, I think I have finally decided that I no longer worry about what people think about being part of this LOA movement.
I know now I want to surround myself with people who have a positive vibration.
I sometimes am surprised by people just being inspired because of who you are and how you are being.
Suzie
Hi Irene. Thanks for your comment. A few years ago I said to my mentor “I can attract the small things easily, its the big things that I have problems with”. His reply was “So start seeing the big things as small things”.
If you maintain a high vibration, I’m sure you’ll attract the right people into your life that you need to make your desires reality. That’s how its always worked for me.
Gary
Hi Patrick - Great point and something I missed from this blog post. The greatest way to teach spirituality is through example.
Thank you,
Gary
Hi Suzie, yes I completely agree with you. Worrying is pointless and has no place with our work.
I’m sure you’ve heard it many times before “the teacher appears when the student is ready” but it really does work like that.
Thanks for stopping by,
Gary
I tell people if they ask, but otherwise I keep my mouth shut. I try to live the story than tell the story.
I disagree that the human impulse to share what we experience as truth is rooted in a need for validation–it is (and should be) rooted in a desire to spread what is true and to share good with others. The idea that the only reason to share is to receive validation is a bit self-centered for something that calls itself “spiritual”, isn’t it?
Hi Solomon, thanks for stopping by.
Hi Tiffany, thanks for leaving your opinion.
Gary
Hey Gary!
I just found your site through Mohamad Latiff’s blog. Very interesting posts, man!
I felt like I had to comment on this one because unlike you I was quite open about discussing the Law of Attraction with everyone in my family.
I had all my cousins whispering “the secret, the secret, the secret…” by the end of the week!
lol And they all had the same reactions as I did when I watched the movie.
As such I have decided to give a talk to a group of primary school students in Singapore to spread the message!
I just sent the E-mail to the school principle and I know he’ll say yes =)
And Gary, I don’t know man.. I think people will be open to hearing what we have to say abt the LOA if we say that it is an ideology rather than something spiritual.
Let them make their own discovery that the LOA is indeed spiritual!
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SaiF
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Hi SaiF,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments!
Not everyone is as receptive to this information as you and I. But that’s the beauty of free will… we can make our own decisions on what to believe.
Gary