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CHAPTER 1 Money: An Illusion—A Shadow of Something Else
Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange value. It represents value.
So money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value, within us, within you.
The first step to wealth is to know what money really is or, more accurately, what it represents. Learn not to look at money most of the time. As you will soon see, it is very rare that you should ever look at money as you know it today—the cash, the bank accounts, the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real thing. As you will soon see, looking at the shadow, the physical money, is mostly very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances. Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people. Our internal value is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others, and your external money and wealth will rise correspondingly—automatically and without fail.
But you can correctly say that, in matters that relate and pertain to money, a wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value, or chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value. The section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when exercised, is called wealth consciousness.
Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of your Self. That is why all you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose not to experience your wealth.
All you need to do is expand your wealth consciousness and exercise it, act on it, be it, and the situations and opportunities for the equivalent conversion into cash will present themselves automatically to you.
They most probably had a set of goals and a plan, but any one of them will tell you that they met countless “coincidences” and opportunities that “joined the dots” for them in ways they could never have predicted. Their goals were their own doing, but the paths that led them to accomplish and exceed those goals were amazingly intelligent yet unforeseen.
By the way, it is not only paper money that is not real. A lot of the things around you that you hold to be real are not really real at all. You are about to embark on a beautiful, empowering, and liberating journey that will show you exactly what your world is, so you can see it in a way that you have never seen it before. It is a journey that will open your eyes and free your wings. You are about to look “under the hood” of life; you are about to learn how to customize your world to your liking.
Once you do, avoiding success and wealth will become very difficult. Yes, you read that correctly. Once you have wealth consciousness, it will be very difficult for you not to have success and wealth.
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A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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