7. Understanding the basic fact about the universe

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book The Least You Should Know About Life.

Take another look at Albert Einstein’s statement, “Insanity is when you keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.” As a scientist, Einstein understood a fundamental law of nature, a law that Jesus expressed as follows, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12). Jesus also said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Matthew 7:2) What was Jesus really saying? He was saying the same as Einstein, only using different words.

All spiritual teachers have been saying the same thing, and the message is clear: THE UNIVERSE IS A MIRROR! Whatever you send out will inevitably be reflected back to you by the cosmic mirror. So if you keep sending out the same thing – by taking the same approach to life – what will the cosmic mirror reflect back to you?

Imagine that you see a person sitting in front of an actual mirror with an unhappy expression on his face. You question him and find out that he has been waiting – for days – for the mirror image to smile at him. You say, “But if you want the mirror image to smile, you have to first smile at the mirror!” He replies, “I can’t smile at the mirror until I have a reason to smile, and I won’t have that until the mirror smiles at me—you fool!”

Obviously, you would think the person was insane. Well, isn’t it insanity that so many people continue to take the same attitude to life? They want to be happy, but they think they need certain outer conditions in order to be happy. So they keep doing the same thing while waiting for life to give them the conditions that will make them happy. Yet how can the cosmic mirror reflect back the abundant life until you send out the abundant consciousness?

Most people have heard the Golden Rule and they will say they agree with it. Yet they somehow cannot put it into action. They are still waiting for other people to treat them nicely before they start treating others nicely. They are still waiting for life to treat them nicely before they send out a vibration of happiness.

The equation is simple. If you keep doing the same thing – if you keep approaching life the same way – your life will not change. If your life is to change, you MUST BEGIN BY CHANGING YOURSELF! Only when you send out a different message will the cosmic mirror reflect back a different image.

If you take an honest look at the world, you will see that most human beings are trapped in this form of insanity, and they are waiting for their world to change without doing anything to change themselves. The message of all true spiritual teachings – and most teachings on self-help and psychology – is that there is an alternative to this approach.
No matter how difficult your situation might seem, there is something you can do to change your situation for the better. It may seem as if you are boxed in by circumstances over which you have no control—and in many cases you have no immediate control over certain outer circumstances. Yet you are never in a situation where you have no options for changing some aspect of your situation.

This leads to another of the great lies that you have been programmed to believe. It goes hand-in-hand with the lie that happiness is the product of outer conditions. This lie says that your state of mind – your inner conditions – is a product of your outer circumstances. It essentially states that your mind is a house with no lock on the door. So whatever happens in your outer circumstances will automatically make you either happy or unhappy.

Those who want to control you want to keep you believing in this lie. They do not want you to discover the underlying truth that your mind is only unprotected as long as you are making unconscious choices—letting others make choices for you. They do not want you to know that you have an alternative to this approach, for if you did know that the universe is a mirror, you would know that you can – truly – change your outer circumstances by changing your consciousness. Instead of being a slave of outer circumstances, you can take command over your inner circumstances, your mind. To do this effectively, you need to understand the Equation of Life.

8. Understanding the Equation of Life

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