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“Circumstances don't matter. Only state of being matters.” It's one of Bashar's most repeated mantras — and one of the most misread. Here is what he means by it, and the subtle trap that undoes it for most people.
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Bashar states it as plainly as he states anything: “Circumstances don’t matter. Only state of being matters.” He even parses it word by word — circumstances don’t materialize things; only your state of being materializes your experience.
Underneath the mantra is a claim about cause and effect: it is not circumstances that determine your state of being, it is your state of being that determines your circumstances. The everyday order is reversed.
A key move in this teaching is that circumstances, on their own, are neutral. They don’t carry a built-in meaning. What gives a situation its effect on your life is what you put into it from the state of being you choose — the quality of who you are, the level of your passion — not what the outward reflection happens to look like.
Bashar is unusually careful to head off the obvious misreading. The personality mind, trained to think results are its job, hears the teaching as: “so if I get into the right state, I’ll produce exactly the circumstances I prefer — and if I don’t see them, something is wrong.” That assumption, he says, is precisely what must be avoided. Turning the mantra into a scoreboard for whether reality has obeyed you re-inserts the very lack you were trying to leave.
The point isn’t to monitor the reflection. It’s to choose and hold the state for its own sake, and let the reflection be whatever it is.
As a practice, the mantra is a circuit breaker. When you catch yourself doubting or fearful because of what you believe the situation is, you remind yourself: circumstances don’t matter, only state of being matters. Then you choose the state you’d prefer, and redefine the circumstance from that state — in Bashar’s words, to “erase the echo” and let a truer reflection form.
This is the engine room behind beliefs create reality and the reason his approach differs from the Law of Attraction: the leverage is the state you occupy now, not the outcome you’re trying to summon. It also underlies parallel realities, where a change of state is what shifts which version of reality you experience.
Bashar teaches that your state of being — the vibration or attitude you choose to hold — is what materializes your experience, while the outward circumstances do not by themselves create anything. So instead of waiting for conditions to change before you feel a certain way, you choose the state first and let circumstances reflect it.
Bashar's point is the direction of cause. Circumstances do not determine your state of being; your state of being determines your circumstances. The appearance of a situation is treated as neutral — what matters is the state you bring to it, which shapes the quality of your life and what forms next.
The personality mind hears 'get into the right state and I'll create the exact circumstances I want — and if I don't see them, something's wrong.' Bashar says that assumption is exactly what to avoid. Circumstances are neutral; you are not grading yourself by whether the reflection instantly matches your preference.
When you feel stuck, doubtful, or fearful about a situation, Bashar offers the mantra as a reminder: 'Circumstances don't matter. Only state of being matters.' Then deliberately choose the state you'd prefer, and redefine the circumstance from that state — letting the old reaction fade and a truer reflection take form.
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Stuck on a situation you can't change? Ask how state of being applies to it.
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