paltry little fifteen minutes he had to wait. He worked himself into a

temper because you were not on time; you worked yourself into a

temper because he wasn't "nice." All that working was your

individual doings.

 

But it all resulted in your resolving that if ever you had another

engagement with that man (you'd take good care not to if you could help

it, though!) you'd be on time if it killed you. Of course you didn't

tell him so. And he resolved that the next time he made an engagement

with you he'd know it, but if he did he would make up his mind to be

on time instead of ahead of time, and he'd not care if you

were late.

 

So you see, the Law of Attraction accomplished its divine purpose in

attracting you two to make that engagement - it waked in you a

resolution toward promptness; and it waked in him a resolution to be

on time rather than before time in future, and to be civil if you

happened to be late - since you are only a woman and can't be expected to

appreciate the value of promptness!

 

This is the way all our associations in life work together for good to

develop our latencies, to strengthen our weak points. The wiser we are

the less emotion we waste in resenting the developing process - the more

readily we see the point and take the resolution hinted at. You see you

and your friend had had other such experiences as the one described - you

had been late before when So-and-so condoned the matter and said

nothing. He let you off so easily that you never thought of resolving

not to be late again. You felt that he had been displeased but you

depended upon your niceness to make it all right again, and it never

occurred to you to call yourself to account and resolve that it

should not happen so again. You were too heedless to take a hint, so

you had to have a kick.

 

You may set this down as a rule without exceptions: That all the kicks

you get from relatives or friends come after you have ignored repeated

hints from your own inner consciousness and them. You have gone on

excusing yourself without correcting the fault (perhaps without seeing

it) until the Law of Attraction stopped hinting and administered a kick.

And if one kick will not cause you to develop that weak point the Law

of Attraction will bring you other and yet harder kicks on the same

line. You will attract worse experiences of the same sort.

 

It is this very law which makes married folks (or other relatives or

friends) quarrel. Adam refuses Eve's hints about neatness, and Eve

kicks - harder and harder. Eve refuses Adam's hints and he gets to

kicking. It ALWAYS takes two to start the kicking, AND EITHER ONE

CAN STOP IT. A frank acknowledgement of error and a RESOLUTION to

mend your end of the fault no matter what is done with the other end;