The Magic (27 page)

But if you have the power over your life, and that power is inside you, why isn’t your life amazing? Why isn’t every area of your life magnificent? Why don’t you have everything you want? Why haven’t you been able to do everything you want to do? Why aren’t you filled with joy every day?

The answer is: because you have a choice. You have a choice whether to love and harness the positive force – or not. And whether you realize it or not, every day of your life – every
moment
of your life – you have been making this choice. Without exception, every single time you experienced something good in your life, you loved and harnessed love’s positive force. And every single time you experienced something not good, you didn’t love, and the result was negativity. Love is the cause of all the good things in your life, and a lack of love is the cause of all the negative things and all the pain and suffering. Tragically, a lack of knowledge and understanding of the power of love is clear in people’s lives across the planet today – and in the entire history of humanity.

“Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.”

Pierre Teilharde Chardin
(1812-1889)
PRIEST AND PHILOSOPHER

Now, you are receiving the knowledge of the one and only power to all the good things in life, and you will be able to use it to change your entire life. But first, you must understand
exactly
how love works.

The Law of Love

The universe is governed by natural laws. We can fly in an airplane because aviation works in harmony with natural laws. The laws of physics didn’t change for us to be able to fly, but we found a way to work in accordance with the natural laws, and by doing so we can fly. Just as laws of physics govern aviation, electricity, and gravity, there is a law that governs love. To harness the positive force of love and change your life, you must understand its law, the most powerful law in the universe – the law of attraction.

From the greatest to the smallest – the law of attraction is what holds every star in the universe and forms every atom and molecule. The force of attraction of the sun holds the planets in our solar system, keeping them from hurtling into space. The force of attraction in gravity holds you and every person, animal, plant, and mineral on earth. The force of attraction can be seen in all of nature from a flower attracting bees or a seed attracting nutrients from the soil, to every living creature being attracted to its own species. The force of attraction operates through all the animals on the earth, fish in the sea, and birds in the sky, leading them to multiply and form herds, schools, and flocks. The force of attraction holds together the cells of your body, the materials of your house, and the furniture you sit on, and it holds your car to the road and the water in your glass. Every object you use is held together by the force of attraction.

Attraction is the force that draws people to other people. It draws people to form cities and nations, groups, clubs, and societies where they share common interests. It is the force that pulls one person to science and another to cooking; it pulls people to various sports or to different styles of music, to certain animals and pets. Attraction is the force that draws you to your favorite things and places, and it’s the force that draws you to your friends and the people you love.

The Attractive Force of Love

So what is the force of attraction? The force of attraction is the force of love! Attraction
is
love. When you feel an attraction to your favorite food, you’re feeling love for that food; without attraction, you wouldn’t feel anything. All food would be the same to you. You wouldn’t know what you love or what you don’t love, because you wouldn’t be attracted to anything. You wouldn’t be attracted to another person, a particular city, house, car, sport, job, music, clothes, or anything, because it’s through the force of attraction that you feel love!

“The law of attraction or the law of love . . . they are one and the same.”

Charles Haanel
(1866-1949)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

The law of attraction
is
the law of love, and it is the all-powerful law that keeps everything in harmony, from countless galaxies to atoms. It is operating in everything and through everything in the universe. And it is the law that is operating in your life.

In universal terms, the law of attraction says: like attracts like. What that means in simple terms for your life is: what you
give
out, you
receive
back. Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Whatever you give, by the law of attraction, is exactly what you attract back to yourself.

“To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)
MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST

Every action of
giving
creates an opposite action of
receiving
and what you receive is always equal to what you’ve given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe.

Give
positivity, you
receive
back positivity;
give
negativity, you
receive
back negativity. Give positivity and you receive back a life full of positive things. Give negativity and you receive back a life filled with negative things. And how do you give positivity or negativity? Through your thoughts and your feelings!

In any moment, you’re giving either positive thoughts or negative thoughts. You’re giving either positive feelings or negative feelings. And whether they’re positive or negative will determine what you receive back in your life. All the people, circumstances, and events that make up every moment of your life are being attracted back to you through the thoughts and feelings you’re giving out. Life doesn’t just happen to you; you
receive
everything in your life based on what you’ve
given
.