| When you look at money, spirituality and abundance -- | | | | which determines whether we are 'wealthy' or 'poor.' |
| not necessarily in that order -- you may discover that | | | | Moreover, there is no right or wrong in this instance. |
| there is a missing link. We live in a three dimensional | | | | What are one person's thoughts are another's illusions. |
| universe where natural laws and their effects can only | | | | What is right for one person does not fit for another. |
| enter our consciousness through our emotional state. It | | | | When we place value, we give it substance. For a |
| is our five senses (I'm leaving out the sixth one for the | | | | monk who has spent all or most of his life as a recluse |
| time being) that we rely upon to experience our world, | | | | will have very little in the material sense. However, the |
| our universe. | | | | value that he places on his meager possessions will |
| Once the information has reached our outer | | | | give him a feeling of having great abundance. By |
| consciousness is when the 'inner' mechanism begins to | | | | contrast, the entrepreneur who has spent a lot of his |
| take over. What we experience in this dimension is by | | | | or her life building an empire could very well feel a |
| virtue of the contrasts that reach us through the | | | | sense of lack, simply because of the value he or she |
| polarities that abound. We can never appreciate | | | | puts on the material aspects of his or her creation and |
| well-being if we have never experienced illness and | | | | possibly his or herself. It's down to value and that can |
| disease. It's the same with wealth or anything else that | | | | only come from you. No two people are alike. |
| you care to think of. Everything has an opposite in this | | | | The spiritual aspects of this are determined by how |
| universe. | | | | you perceive the world and apply yourself and the |
| So what is the point that I'm trying to make? That | | | | material things which are at your disposal. Your intellect |
| missing link I mentioned earlier is the common | | | | (or ego) is the only barrier to achieving greater things |
| denominator that puts all of our experiences into | | | | and when you begin to understand that you are simply |
| perspective. It is simply LACK. If you experience lack, | | | | a part of everything, value plays little or no part in your |
| then everything else begins to fall into place. The | | | | life. This is when you can begin to realize who you are |
| polarities in life which manifest through natural laws are | | | | and what you are about. Now your sixth sense clicks |
| what makes us realize that there is neither abundance | | | | into gear and before you know it, you are on the road |
| nor lack. It is only the value that we place on something | | | | to progress. Now that's having abundance. |