Chapter VII. Striking Illustrations of Half Truths - p.89

Everyday experience has demonstrated the fact again and again that when we look for trouble we usually find it. And also that when we look for health, peace, harmony and abundance we almost invariably gain possession of those things in a greater or a lesser measure. This fact has led a number to believe that we meet only what we look for. But this conclusion is nothing but a half truth. We know that we meet a number of things in daily life that we never looked for, and many things that we even never thought of. Almost daily we come in contact with conditions that do not belong to us and that have no legitimate place in our world. Therefore to say that we meet only what we look for is not to speak the truth.

Besides, when we live in the belief that we meet only what we look for, we condemn ourselves for many times as many wrongs as we are responsible for. And to condemn ourselves for any wrong is to impress that wrong upon the subconscious. What is impressed upon the subconscious will bear fruit after its kind; therefore when you condemn