Knowing vs. Practicing

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The way I see it, the "things" are going to happen regardless of how much faith you have. Labeling them as "bad" will have you receive a bad effect, while labeling them as "useful" will result in a useful effect.

The conditions that exist are certainly teaching tools about the self, and to push them away rather than using them as reflections for growth invites imbalance. I just think there is way too much worrying however, but there would be less to worry about if more were active which we're also discussing.

I think you're touching on an aspect of "societal synchronicity." I believe that those who are "lazy" (to no fault, of course) will be met with others within society who are similarly lazy, and have a general societal view of laziness.

I'm just saying that others have yet to grasp the why's and how's of the conditions they find themselves in, and so there is less reason to be active. It was more of a comment on the third discipline of the mind in 5.2. How every aspect of the self can be reflected in society, and if you can find congruency in everything, it helps immensely with balance.

But I agree that when effort is put in, the universe responds!