by Karen Williams

Created on: December 18, 2009

Thanks to a friend for this great question:

"I have acquaintances who are always talking to me about some cause - abortion, politics, etc. They constantly have to right some wrong. They are extremely devout and good people, but they feel they have to stand up against this or that or else things will go irrevocably bad. I have told them that whatever you resist persists and that if you wave the flag of 'this isn't right & that isn't right,' then you are just going to create more of it. They always come back to me with the quote from Edmund Burke:  'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.'

"They say, what would have happened if the founding fathers just said, 'Let's listen to Abraham and just think good thoughts?' We'd all be speaking the king's English and drinking tea (God forbid) instead of coffee. Or on a more serious note, what if all the young men after Pearl Harbor was bombed simply said, 'Let's not stand against Hitler, let's take ole Abe's [Abraham-Hicks's] advice and just get in the vortex because we don't want to resist anything?' Any thoughts?"

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Let's establish first and foremost that the universal Law of Attraction is the choreographer of all events. It is absolutely true that what we resist persists, no matter how much we set out to eradicate that which is unwanted. And the reason it persists is that we are giving our attention to it. Working according to the Law of Attraction, the Universe always delivers to us what we regularly focus upon - if not that specific thing, then something similar, something equally desirable or undesirable.

The Law of Attraction is ever in play, and there is no circumventing it. Everything and every person, every nation and every creation is subject to this eternal principle. Until we factor Law of Attraction into our understanding, we're stumbling in the dark and understanding of cause-and-effect eludes us.

In the short term, it seems that good people, when they do something about evil, truly stop it from triumphing, as in the famous Edmund Burke quote that has rallied generations to stand up and be counted. But the mentality of noticing what's wrong and fighting against it always breeds more-of-the-same - more "evil" to overcome.

Let's look at the two examples here: the Revolutionary War and World War II.

In the Revolutionary War, the fledgling American colonies defeated the oppressive tyrant,

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