We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God
the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all Eternity: whilst this
birth also comes to pass in Time and in human nature. Saint Augustine says this
Birth is ever taking place… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it?
Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. ― Meister Eckhart Mystische
Schriften
This quote from seven centuries
ago is as pertinent today as when Eckhart said it. Whole sections of
bookstores, catalogs, and libraries are devoted to the celebration of and
guidance to prosperity and success. Hundreds of authors have made fortunes
writing what they intended to be self-help books so that we who read them can
bootstrap ourselves to success by helping ourselves using their advice. But if
what we read or hear in the lectures and CD’s that we pay fortunes to possess
does not affect us enough to move us into action then those books become
shelf-help books and are worthless to us.
Some of us could be quite wealthy
if we saved and invested the money we spend on advice for becoming wealthy and
then totally disregard as we run to find a new guru, coach, or guide. Take the
wisdom that lifts you today into your heart and mind. Stew in it until it
flavors all of your thoughts and feelings and then serve yourself with dynamic
action using that wisdom until you use it up. Only, wisdom applied grows rather
than diminishes. The wealthy teachers and authors are wealthy because they
applied what they taught purposefully, passionately, persistently, with daring
and passion in every situation, easy or hard.
We birth our eternity, our prosperity,
or our poverty in every moment by the way we focus our thoughts. What
magnificence wants to emerge that we press down again for fear that we are not
good enough, it’s too hard, we don’t deserve it, or we don’t know how. The
thought of magnificence is God within us telling us that we are good enough,
deserving, able, and that the how comes packaged with the desire itself.
“Move forward!” says Goethe, Thoreau,
Emerson, and every successful prosperity guru on the planet. And yet we sit and
wait or worse yet, we sit and complain that someone hasn’t given us our fortune
at our birth so we are downtrodden and beneath some glass ceiling. The glass
ceiling is our own creation, ready for breaking, more imaginary than real but
just as much an obstacle because we believe it is.
We transform ourselves into
prosperity with our beliefs and our feelings but this transformation takes
place within us before we ever see a sign of it in our outward experience.
Others see it as a dramatic shift for us but probably we just make a small
change in the way we see things. Instead of seeing blocks and hardship, we
begin to notice opportunities to speak up and speak out for ourselves. We find
new and better work, new and better living quarters because we are now more
alert to seeing what we seek, which is always right here with us both
spiritually and materially.
I now replace all of my old
shelf-help ideas with practical wisdom that I take to heart and act upon with
vigor and enthusiastic expectation of success. I discover the power within me
for prosperity is my Spirit Nature moving me forward rapidly, dynamically, and
successfully to my desires and my contentment. My gratitude now fuels my transformation
as my rebirth unfolds within me and 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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