The things we cherish most are at
the mercy of the things we cherish least.
– William James
Now let us think of the things
that must be tuned out of our lives before our reception of good is perfected.
What are they? They are the small thoughts… Face your parsimonious, pinched, thoughts,
your narrow vision, your cramped outlook, and your poverty stricken
environment. Recognize your paralyzing, pinching, cheeseparing, habits,
shriveling stinginess, and rainy day pressures. Then tune them all out of your
life. …and see yourself living prosperously…
– Robert Russell You, too, Can
Be Prosperous
I have a stack of books and
magazines about nine inches high, which provide me each day with a paragraph or
a page or two of wisdom and inspiration. I shuffle them around and restack them
so each morning I read them in different order and when I finish one, I replace
it with something different often by a different author so that I have a
shifting variety of insight on living to draw from.
In addition to the two quotes
above, today, at least two more items reminded me that by focusing on the petty and
the mean, I withdraw both attention and energy from the prosperous happy life that
I desire. The adage that the energy flows where the attention goes is a pivotal
truth that reminds me of the importance of my interest in spiritual good over
judgments of evil.
I know professional organizers
and proponents of decluttering who profess, “A place for everything and
everything in its place,” and I know feng shui experts who can lay out a room,
home, or office to promote inner peace and prosperity. I am always amused as I listen
to them dwell on small thoughts, fears, superstitions, taboos, and remembered wrongs
of their past. Inner clutter and inner disorder can be disguised only
temporarily by outer arrangements. Only purity of thought can declutter or
feng shui the mind.
Living with purity has little to
do with morality and much to do with practicality. Keeping the mind and heart pure means that we
deliberately weed out the thoughts and beliefs that keep us in the more negative
emotional states while discovering or adopting those beliefs, which lift us to
persistent happiness.
If we liken ideas to seeds, which
germinate and grow in the fertility of our consciousness then we need to
inspect the seed and plant only the best. A growing garden requires repeated
weeding and our minds grow our ideals, which yield the fruit of our
experiences, so we persist in examining our consciousness for any active
thought of judgment, especially condemnation, and we pull it up and look at it
to see its falseness and then discard it.
I turn in thought to the Source
of my prosperity ideals, Spirit. I eliminate from my thought any idea or belief
that runs counter to the purity of my prosperity experience as I plant seeds of
love, joy, satisfaction, financial freedom and pure prosperity, which grow for
me and abundant crop of freedom, vitality, love, and all of the material good
that prospers and makes life rich and easy. I accept it all now with grateful
appreciation for so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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