Tag: Prosperity
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Your Inner Power
We all have a unique and wonderful power within us which holds the key to our ultimate happiness and fulfillment. It originates from the way we think, and what we imagine, say and do. This inner power is non-physical. When we are attuned to it and allow it to guide and support us we are…
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Can We Really Think And Grow Rich?
In the Victorian era success was believed to be about hard work, serious effort, application and persistence, and maybe a slice of privilege or good luck. Later Deepak Chopra and other ‘New Age writers taught that by raising our consciousness we achieve everything while doing nothing, and it doesn’t matter what our background. Somewhere in…
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The Law of Attraction is not what it seems
The two great principles that are said to determine what we make of our lives are the Law of Cause and Effect and the Law of Attraction. Some people have always known their significance, and now this knowledge is becoming known to many more. As the Buddha said, ‘All that we are arises with our…
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Simplify your life for happiness
If you really want to be happy and less stressed, simplify your life. Reduce your dependence on possessions. Surround yourself only with things that meet your needs and delight you. Give up the need to have more. ‘More’ is one of the mantras of the ego, which believes ‘I never have enough’ and ‘If I…
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Buddhist Economics and Good Work
One of the greatest statements on living simply is to be found in E. F. Schumacher’s book, ‘Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered’. One chapter, ‘Buddhist Economics,’ points out that consumption is not the purpose of life but merely a means to an end. Our aim, he argued, ‘should be…
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Let go of envy
Let go of envy. Envy does untold harm to physical and mental well-being. When you envy what someone else has (or appears to have), you establish poverty thinking patterns in your consciousness. You divert your attention away from factors under your control (your thoughts, words and actions) to those beyond your control (what others do,…
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Is it unspiritual to be poor?
Some religious people and theologians believe that it is unspiritual to be poor. They argue that poor people are unaware of the spiritual principles by which our wants and needs are satisfied. Wealth, they say, is a cosmic ‘thank you’ for our contribution to the world. If we have plenty, it’s because we give plenty.…
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Prosperity theology
It is popular in some religious circles (especially in the USA) to argue that accumulating wealth is not only a worthy pursuit but also a spiritual activity. I disagree. I attended a seminar some years ago given by a minister of a ‘prosperity church’ from the USA. She argued that it is OK to acquire…
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Everything material is impermanent
Every material thing you have will one day cease to exist in its present form. Even your body will return to the dust from which it was made. The consequence is clear: if you chase after possessions, hoard them and rely on them for security, you make yourself a slave to things that inexorably deteriorate.…
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The Joy of Simplicity
‘There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment and it’s because you’re thinking or focussing on what you don’t have.’ Anthony de Mello There’s a paradox in matters of prosperity and spirituality. We live in an abundant universe and yet most of the great spiritual teachers were exponents of the…