Redefining Wealth: A 21st Century Perspective
Posted on September 29, 2014 8 Comments
Has someone ever said this to you, “It’s all about you.” Or have you said, “It’s all about me?” Well, it is. Everything is about me, about what I think arising from experience, education, and emotions. Science, from physics to science of the mind, has proven that through the power of thought we do create our own world. So let’s take a brief look at me.
I can get distracted. I can be impatient. My feelings can get hurt. I can get frustrated. I can feel under appreciated. I can spend too much money.
I don’t yell in anger. I don’t slam doors on problems. I don’t get into credit card debt. I don’t bury my head in the sand to the pain in the world. But, I don’t let what I cannot immediately change overwhelm me.
Yes, I am a mass of opposites, but I understand this makes me one with the universe. We know that all that exists is comprised of endless energy flowing in all directions. My energy, my thought, leads me to recognize wholistic wisdom that manifests sacred wealth.
A 21st Century Perspective
Somehow, the promise of the 21st century got hijacked. First were apocalyptic fears of the entry into a new century. Then we were overwhelmed by 911. But now it’s time to put on the brakes and remember, this is the Age of Aquarius. A world that can invent artificial hearts can end wars and violence. Our wealth is that we are all human beings inextricably linked to each other for our survival and happiness.
The wealth of the 21st Century transcends bank balances and stock portfolios. It is the wealth of the millions who marched around the world to protect the environment; it is the wealth of the millions crying out, protesting, and petitioning to end violence from the bombings in the Middle East to the murder of young black men in the streets of the USA. It is the wealth of young entrepreneurs and scientists developing products and businesses that assist underserved communities around the world.
Redefintion
In this 21st Century we define wealth as a sacred process that recognizes the infinite value of all that lives, creatively shares, and compassionately distributes the abundance of this planet to empower, uplift, and enlighten every living being.
Wholistic Prosperity or Lessons from Mama
Posted on September 23, 2014 16 Comments
While I rode the bus in Los Angeles, just barely staying one step ahead of homelessness, a neatly dressed, small, gray haired lady sat next to me and smiled. I was surprised when she spoke.
“You have an aura of wealth and abundance.”
In amazement, I said “Thank you.” Later, I reflected on her words. I concluded she saw embodied in me my mother’s self-confidence, her mother’s earthy independence, and my paternal grandmother’s sense of security and wonder. Even when I was broke, which was quite often, I felt a sense of prosperity, of “good fortune.”
All my life, since the day I was barely ten years old and wrote “I always was and always will be,” I have felt fortunate. My path in life has not been straight or strewn with roses, but I’ve maintained what I call wholistic prosperity.
Prosperity
One childhood Christmas, I received a beautiful bridal doll. Obviously, I must have ruined her beautiful, lacy white dress because the next Christmas, I received a Catholic nun doll. Mama received instructions from the nuns at my school and carefully sewed the intricate dress. It was definitely the bride doll I received the previous Christmas. So, I learned early that money is not the primary key to prosperity. The Encarta Dictionary defines prosperity as the “condition of enjoying great wealth, success, or good fortune.”
Another lesson of prosperity I learned from Mama was to indulge myself. Mama never shirked from buying herself the clothes or treats she wanted, all the while providing her four daughters everything we needed and mostly everything we wanted. Mama was creative, resourceful, protective, and strong. She taught us prosperity is the state of mind that appreciates our natural gifts and the blessings that come our way.
Wholistic
I began ending letters and e-mails with the words, Be Whole when I lived in the center of the universe, the Hopi nation in northern Arizona. In the deep desert silence, I found a sublime sense of contentment, a wholeness that strengthened and stabilized me through ever changing employment situations.
It is this sense of being whole, complete in myself, yet connected to the world that gives me that aura of wealth and abundance, observed by a stranger on a bus so many years ago.
My own knowing came to me as I girl that I am part of a universal consciousness that has no beginning or end. This knowledge continues to guide me and is the foundation of my wholistic prosperity that sees the universe and all that exists as sacred.
Easy To Be In Love With A Tree – Inspirational Quotations
Posted on September 20, 2014 4 Comments
I love trees and soon many will display their bright and varied autumn dress. Another blogger, Teacher as Transformer, shared this. Now I share it with you, quote by Herman Hesse well worth the read.
The big old conifers were cut down this year.
The new shrubs are my new additions to the garden.
When I think of trees, I think of temples. For me trees represent temples. They provide both shade and sanctuary to all creatures. They feed the earth and give shelter to the birds. Trees are holy and vital to our well-being. Yes, I am a tree hugger. The vibrations of trees has a strong attraction for me.
For the past eight years I have sat back and watched over forty trees cut down all around us. It was devastating to see those old temples go. None of them deserved it. We were told the trees were a nuisance for they cut out light, they dropped leaves, they had nasty growing habits. So they met an untimely end by mutilation. I have never come to terms with the loss of trees. Although…
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