RE: Thoughts on Like attracts Like
'Forgiveness is an act of compassion for self, for you are the only one that is truly harmed by unforgiveness'.
'Respect is a way of being but to honour another is to pay homage to others sacred divinity'
Quotes from Quan Yin
The more love that you are the more love you attract.
Love beyond measure
Kim xx
RE: Thoughts on Like attracts Like
Oooh Amy i so get you! [sm=hug.gif]
I know it's a little late but just wanted to say i understand what your saying. This has been a great thread! and the replies have been fantastic all making so much sense.
However, i believe that each situation can have so many different reasons for appearing in your life so what may be the correct way to deal with something for one person may not be for another where their life path is concerned, there could be hundreds of different reasons for why this person entered your life therefore it's hard for anyone to give you advice on how you can deal with it.
I don't believe for a minute that you attracted this person into your life because you are similar or the "like attracts like" theory....inocent people get killed daily that wouldn't tread on an ant let alone do anything similar!
Sounds to me that your a lovely person who doesn't want to tell anyone to get lost straight up, you were trying to see the good in them or in fact would have liked to help this person but after realising that you couldn't and they were bringing you down with them, you took the executive decision to distance yourself.
I would go on your instincts - you could have been a stepping stone in their life to try and better themselves....only being so lovely you stuck around a little too long!
And i totally understand that after all that they have put you through you don't want to send them love.....i've tried this but there is no point if you don't really feel it hey? Maybe in time you will.
I think that as long as you treat others with respect and the way you would like to be treated then you can't go far wrong. You did your best, didn't work...back off and surround yourself with lovely people like yourself.
Back to the "like attracts like" theory or people morroring you - of course this is true to many extents, a few examples:
You separate from your husband/partner.....you can then be more likely to attract those in a similar situation to you for support, to go out with, to understand you 🙂
You have a baby.....you may then find yourself attracted more to other mothers as apposed to your old friends who are still career minded and socialise all the time 😀
Negatively i also believe that yes it can take one to know one! A cheat will recognise a cheat or be it that they are one themselves will be constantly paranoid that their partner is being unfaithful [:'(]
You may recognise such horrible qualities in a person because you would never do these things yourself and your horrified at their behaviour or indeed because you are similar...both ways work i would say.
I don't think any hard rules apply. Anyway i've bored you enough ha ha!
Lots of love butterfly [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
RE: Thoughts on Like attracts Like
Hello ameliajane,
Hmm....like attracting like can work in very postive ways, too. For instance, you are attracted to like-minded souls on HP and as far as I know, none of us are vile and nasty (:D) I don't think that this concept is necessarily 'mirroring' traits in yourself that you see in others; it is a recognition of the spirit and that other spirit's goodness.
When we attract people who are not on our 'wavelength' that isn't 'like attracting like.' As Kim and Sebenny say, they are usually people who's spirits are attracted to you in order to gain healing, comfort or just to syphon off the good energy that you possess.
In my experience, it is far better to have 'like attracting like' when making friends or relationships. 'Opposites attracting' only attract in the short term; they eventually go off and find those with whom they have an affinity. Remeber that for every 'bad' trait that you possess, you also have many more good ones.
Hope this makes sense!
Love,
Patsy.
😀
RE: Thoughts on Like attracts Like
I too am a little late reading this thread and like others found this very thought provoking. In our natural environment, Opposites attract, this magnetic energy is what keeps our universe intact. Oft times we find the more positive energy that we possess the more we encounter negative energy surrounding us, grounding us to the reality of the world that we live in. Are they a mirror of us? Without light a mirror has no power. But what does it reflect? Only our physical nature not our soul.
It is my gnosis and experience that one's aura which I consider to be a part of the soul will attract in what the soul needs to purify itself. What resists persists is part of the law of attraction, so one can pull in a negative situation or life condition to assist the soul to heal itself or test its own integration.
Without doubt the more love that we are and the more we have integrated multi-dimensionally, the purer the souls that one attracts into ones domain, purely because one has nothing left to heal, one has become whole and beyond the duality of illusion and in so doing one breaks the wheel of karma. In effect the two become one and the soul can then merge with the spirit in oneness with the purest God essence of all that IS.
Is the soul merged with this negative person? Yes, they are the reflection of what makes you a human as a human being have been. The moon only reflects the light of the soul and the sun casts its shadow on the moon creating darkness. The more your light shines on this person the more others see your light and want to follow it instead of staying in the darkness. Together you make a whole, she is the shadow that is in the mirrow that your light shine brighter. She propells you to shine brighter and she has chosen to be a negative energy in this universe this lifetime, without such negativity our earth world would cease to exist and we become one. But the real question is not if she is a reflection of you but how are you a reflecition of her. As soon as she comes into your space, parks her car outside, the negativity in you begins to rise to the surface and you with she was not there. So welcome her in and bless her negativity and be glad you have someone who carries such a heavy load and as she leaves let her take with her not your light but let her relieve you of your negative energy and you will be refreshed and restored after she leaves that you have not chosen that type of life this time but it is just a reflection of what is past and has no power of its own. If she asks for light or healing, then by all means you can share but if not honor her choice to remain a negative energy force in at this time knowing that there will come a time that she will desire the light that you have but until she is ready it is not for us to decide what type of life she lives. Is this like attracting like, yes in that we are all alike, on a journey of soul growth. Is the light more valuable than the dark? or do we need both? Perhaps through her immersion in negative energy her soul is leaning more than we are who have chosen to use a what we perceive as a positive path or maybe we are truly the same and without each other could not exist at all.