The wisdom is profound in this one. 
In my opinion, what people call “the law of attraction” or “the law of cause and effect” is a just a shadow of the greater order of things, and getting caught up in the language is folly, especially since no one can define what an “emotion” or “emotional state” even is or how they are different.
You can describe your relation to these notions, but there’s no possible way that you can ever articulate how you truly feel about something with language, since the only thing language can do is carry an idea for another individual to react to in their OWN way.
Thought, emotion and internal state are all intrinsically the same, part of a unified “force” or essence. State leads to emotion, emotion leads to thoughts. Or, thoughts can evoke an emotion, which can evoke an internal state. Or, you can have an emotion and not even know why you feel this way, you just feel the emotion of sadness and internal state of being down, which evokes depressive thoughts.
No one can say that one definitely leads to the other, it’s all part of an interconnected, ever spiraling system.
Because these ideas are hard to explain with language, we turn to symbolism and parables, so that the person has to dwell on what the symbol means and how it’s associated to their lives.
That’s why Esther Hicks speaks in “riddles,” @xkjwx – most of these complex esoteric concepts can only be truly understood when one goes through a deep contemplation process. She’s merely emulating what all teachers and explorers of the mysteries have done. Otherwise, the words don’t make much sense.
You won’t find a single esoteric / spiritual tradition without a mystery component (replete with symbolism to decode), including Christianity (no religious debates, again, I refer to the Bible because it’s the book I’m familiar with). Context – the disciples ask Jesus why he teaches in parables:
From the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 13, verses 10, 11, 13, 14 (it’s also in Luke also)
The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them… This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
Note: PERCEIVING. In other words, deep contemplation on a subject to find understanding.
Another example, this time from The Book of Ecclesiates (NIV, chapter 1, verses 3-9):
What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Now, look at these symbols:
Pay attention to the extra context in the yin-yang symbol, and then read the first five verses of Genesis.
I’ve read all of Neville Goddard’s books. I think. And he’s definitely doing the same thing, giving part of the knowledge, but leaving the rest for you to figure out.
. Just a consequence of how my life has been structured where there’s still some more things to figure out from the classical, non-spiritual perspective (though I recognize that all, even the process of day-to-day living, can be seen as a spiritual experience).
