You always get what you want, invariably, even though you may think that it's entirely opposed to your wishes.

But if it's your karma, everything that happens to you, putting in another way, everything that comes to you is a return to you of what goes out of you.

Yes, obviously, that's absurd.

If you confine the definition of yourself to your voluntary conscious behavior,

that's a ridiculous definition of oneself.

One self by any stretch of the imagination must involve far more than the conscious and voluntary aspects of our behavior.

And if we see that it involves intimately and inescapably,

the behavior of what we call the other, the not self, the environment,

and see that these two are moving together like the two sides of the snake when it swims.

Then you get a very curious feeling.

Like attracts like.

You have to understand you are a magnet.

Whatever you are, that's what you draw to you.

If you're negative, you're going to draw negativity.

You're positive, you draw positive.

You're a kind person, more people are kind to you.

So you are like a magnet, you know.

And you've got to understand some of them about like attracts like.

If you see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand.

You weren't really ready for the world, were you?

But when you show yourself that you have the power to come into alignment,

not just with who you were before you were born,

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