The point of attraction is not the challenge/temptation/stimulus itself. It is the sacred moment when one reacts or responds to the challenge. Never before!

I learned this the hard way. I agonized for years after watching the documentary of “The Secret”. I stretched and stressed myself to perfection. (An impossibility)

During the day I would worry about Emil. At night I would worry about Julie Anne as she lived her day in London. I was on a 24 hour high-alert state. What with my fertile imagination! What if my worries attracted disasters to Emil and Anne?

I failed to realize that as I fought with my thoughts, the very struggle may have caused a version of ‘what you resist, persists’.

Lately, I finally understood what M. Tamura meant with:

“When crises arise in your life. they are not due to something inherently wrong with you.”
“Although you may take them personally, situations in your life don’t happen to you. They just happen. And you are involved in them according to the way you respond to [them]”