hermit's chronicles

If you are angry, continue being angry knowing that Anger is arising in you. If you are feeling lustful, go on and be lustful knowing that Lust is arising in you. If you are feeling vengeful, go be vengeful knowing that Vengeance is arising in you. If you are feeling compassionate, be compassionate knowing Compassion is arising in you. If you feel loving, go ahead be loving because Love is arising in you. If you feel like chanting, go ahead and chant knowing that the Chant is arising in you. If you feel like meditating, meditate knowing that Meditation is arising in you. If you feel like dancing, dance knowing that Dance is happening through you. Everything is just a happening. Everything.

The secret of prosperity, of course, would be to live within your income, to spend less than what you earn, and not go into debt. That would be the greatest wisdom in a nutshell! If you have not got the cash, then don’t purchase items - go without them. Yet, there are certain laws of prosperity which stem from eternal spiritual truths. If you begin to feel and think lack (want), you experience lack. If you assert your abundance, then, as the shadow follows the person, abundance follows you. Desire is poverty. Desire is a feeling of inadequacy. When you begin to desire, you are a beggar already. A millionaire who is always wanting to make another million is really a beggar. A porter who is getting, say, four dollars a day and says, “That is quite enough for me” is greater than a millionaire. For he has not that nagging feeling of lack and the beggarly attitude of desire. To this end, contentment is the true secret of affirming your abundance. Whatever comes, feel full. Once you have con...