Abraham-Hicks Quotes

It is possible for you to be selfishly oriented and care about someone else at the same time. But you can't let what they want matter more to you than what you want, or you are going to get out of balance. Then that's where you start sacrificing, which lays the groundwork for resentment.

Then you find yourself in an adult relationship like so many adults who have parents and parents who have adult children, and none of them even like each other. Because their relationship is based on sacrifice and resentment instead of upon balance and alignment and self-sufficency ...

To you it feels like a river that is moving swiftly toward who you really are and taking you along with it, whether you really wanna go or not.

And do you know what negative emotion is? Negative emotion is the stream of your expansion taking you, and you not going willingly. That's what negative emotion is. "But But But But But," you say, as you try to row against the current. "BUT. BUT. BUT."

And as you defend and justify, as you talk about what you don't want, "I don't have enough money, I don't have enough money, they don't bring my breakfast, nobody loves me ...

Questioner: I was reading something that Wayne Dyer wrote, that if you don't get past forgiving and resentment, you can forget about getting to a higher spiritual level. How do you know when resentment is resolved, or how do you know that you've forgiven?

Abraham: We like to tease everyone, especially him [laughter], by saying you don't have to offer forgiveness if you've never condemned to begin with. And the Source energy part of you has never condemned.

But let's talk about this you're really going to like this if the Source within you is one who loves, and that is the case, and you have yourself focused upon something where you're feeling resentment or unfairness, injustice, and you're all balled up over it, what that means is you're looking at that situation in a way that the Source within you will not look ...

So, I am driving through traffic and the guy comes around me, and he cuts me off, and then slows down. And he's right in front of me, and now I am going slower than before he came. And he's making it worse, because he's flipping me off and trying to make it look like I did something wrong.

And now I have a decision to make. I can see him through the eyes of Source or feel the resentment that is more natural to me now.

So I decide to see him through the eyes of Source, and I think, "I don't know what's going on in his experience ...

Regarding: Thoughts that don't feel good

We don't think that you thought it made any difference. We don't think that you thought the stakes were that high. We don't think that you thought that the insignificant thought about things that don't matter -- that don't feel good to you while you're thinking them -- we don't think that you thought that was the reason you were holding all well-being from you. We don't think that you knew how important the positive, good-feeling thought is.

We think you thought: I can think a bad thought or I can think a good thought ...