Manifestation

I wrote a little over two months ago,

The way we feel influences the way we act, just as much as the way we act influences the way we feel. What caused what? What influenced what? Where does it start? Where does it end?

We can decide what we do, but that decision is almost always entirely based on how we feel. And more often than not, we can’t choose how we feel.

The entire concept of manifestation and the law of attraction that has been looming up in the past decade is, at its core, an iterated expression of our internal desire that had already existed to begin with—no different than anyone who doesn’t actively practice this exact form of thought.

If our thoughts determine our reality, what reason do we have to believe that it doesn’t work in reverse—that our reality determines our thoughts? If an individual attracts what they think—if we just look at it from a slightly different perspective—are those same things not the very things that attract the individual?

In terms of our free will, to actively manifest our desires in thoughts, because it is all already implicitly manifested in our actions; it is all one and the same—all an inexorable, unceasingly capricious cycle of cause and effect.