Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wealth is Infinite

"Yes." You might say, "Wealth is potentially infinite."

However, I'm also saying, "Your Potential wealth is infinite". And this might be difficult for some of you to accept whether it is true or not.

So, maybe the place to start is to contemplate this saying, "My potential wealth is infinite."

Try it. Just roll it over and over in your mind like a mantra or prayer.

One of the things I have found in life is that the biggest obstacle to people manifesting wealth of all kinds whether it be mental wealth, emotional wealth, monetary wealth, the wealth of good friends and relatives, the wealth of good water and food and air or whatever kinds of wealth we are actually talking about being infinite is their own limited perceptions of reality often conditioned into them while they were growing up by other unthinking children or adults.

So, in order to be able to accept wealth of all kinds in one's life one must be able to psychologically accept that wealth when it comes. So, one of the first things one needs is self acceptance. And how does one get self acceptance? By treating all people one meets with kindness and respect.

To some people this would seem paradoxical and maybe on some level it is. However, when you analyze how people actually get wealthy and stay wealthy it is always by group acceptance that it is okay for you to be that wealthy. Yes. There are always some people who will be jealous of you if you become wealthy in any way. But for the most part if people leave you alone to be wealthy in whatever ways you are then you stay wealthy in those ways sometimes for a lifetime. And sometimes if you are really lucky your children and grandchildren also benefit from your good fortunes.

But remember, it all begins with realizing that it is okay for you to be wealthy. And how are you going to help your family and friends once you are wealthy?

The general rule that wealthy people generally follow is: "Don't violate principal (your money you earn interest or dividends on). If you are going to help people and to continue to help people like funding grants for college or funding non-profits one needs to learn the "Don't violate your principal" rule.

Because the only way to have a gift that keeps on giving is to only use your interest or dividends to fund gifts, college grants and scholarships ongoing or to start or fund non-profit organizations.

I think a good illustration of what money is like would be to equate it to water. In many cultures money is water because there isn't any (or at least not enough potable water).

So, using water in this way I think is useful.

So, first as you are a young man or woman you want more water(money). So, at first you build a water container and you let it fill up from the downspouts of your house. But then you taste the water and it tastes like the asphalt roofing of your house. So, since you have an acre of land you decide to look at how the land all slopes in one direction. So, you decide to build a little pool to catch the water at the far end of the downslope. This works fine except now you have some dog and cat and cow and other poop in the water so you cannot safely drink it. But it will be okay for animals and birds. So, then you go back to your water off the roof in the tank that tastes now like asphalt and you decide to drink that water but first you are going to boil it so it tastes better. So now, you have water to drink that only tastes a little bad and you have water for all your animals and birds throughout the year.

But one day you walk up into the nearby mountains and you taste the spring water there and it is the most wonderful water you have ever tasted. So, you start putting pipe in so you can pipe this most precious water all the way to your house. Soon, your water in your house becomes the talk of the town and everyone comes to first drink your water and later you have to sell it because otherwise you would have none left for yourselves. You become very rich selling this wonderful tasting water.

In each case I illustrated above you found a way to keep the water (money) from flowing away out of your life. But the last one made everyone happy even when they had to pay for the water. Money is a lot like this. It all comes from the evolution of simple ideas that help other beings as well as yourself.

So, in this sense, we all share the wealth of this world with each other.

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