It’s natural to be skeptical of ideas that don’t match our personal “model of the world.” Problems arise however, when viewing the world through the lens of skepticism is the only perspective that one uses to go through life.Not long ago I stumbled across an Amazon book review that I thought I’d share with you.
A quoted excerpt from a reviewer on Amazon.com:
“Truth is, not too long ago I would have laughed at the ideas in this book [about The Law of Attraction]. I’d have written them off as "New Age Nonsense" and felt smug and justified in doing so. In fact, I loved nothing more than to think of myself as one of the few "wise ones" who could see through the smoke that "fooled" almost everyone else.
It turns out, I was the real fool. Rather than helping me in life, my skepticism slowly but surely cut me off from any sense of wonder and possibility. I became, frankly, an arrogant but miserable jerk.
But I was lucky. Despite my commitment to criticize all that failed to fit my own sense of reality, a thought eventually popped into my head that changed everything. The thought was this:
"If we can only accept what we currently believe, we have already reached our full potential."
This thought literally pulled my life out of the grips of skepticism and made it possible for me to entertain ideas I would have otherwise dismissed out of hand. Ideas that are full of promise, power and hope. Ideas that can make us greater than we are and more powerful than we might imagine ourselves to be.”
Source: Amazon.com
Popularity: 97% [?]
