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The Source of Affluence
Affluence is the experience in which our needs are easily met and our desires spontaneously fulfilled. We feel joy, health, happiness, and vitality in every moment of our existence.
When we are grounded in the nature of reality and we also know that this same reality is our own nature, then we realize that we can create anything, because all of material creation has the same origin. Nature goes to the same place to create a cluster of nebulas, a galaxy of stars, a rain forest, or a human body as it goes to create a thought.
All of material creation, everything that we can see, touch, hear, taste, or smell is made from the same stuff and comes from the same source. Experiential knowledge of this fact gives us the ability to fulfill any desire we have, acquire any material object we want, and experience fulfillment and happiness to any extent we aspire.
The principles that relate specifically to the creation of unlimited material wealth can be applied to fulfill any desire, because they are the same principles that nature uses to create material reality out of a nonmaterial essence.
At a preverbal level, all of nature speaks the same language. We are all thinking bodies in a thinking universe. And just as thought projects itself as the molecules of our body, so too the same impulses of energy and information project themselves as space-time events in our environment.
Behind the visible garment of the universe, beyond the mirage of molecules, the maya – or illusion – of physicality, lies an inherently invisible, seamless matrix made up of a nothingness. This invisible nothingness silently orchestrates, instructs, guides, governs, and compels nature to express itself with infinite creativity, infinite abundance, and unfaltering exactitude into a myriad of designs and patterns and forms.
Life experiences are the continuum in this seamless matrix of nothingness, in this continuum of both body and environment. All these events seemingly happen to us, but at very primordial levels we are making them happen.
Adapted from Creating Affluence, by Deepak Chopra (New World Library, 1993).
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add your comment »Thank you all, and I do mean all, so much for your kind words. I love being in this class with you. It's a beautiful thing to daily dip my mind into this profundity; like meditating ,like dying a piece of fabric, with each dip the color becomes stronger.
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I see the truth of what you say, my interpretaion of the same is a golden compass, an amber spyglass and a subtle knife to mend the broken bridge, everything is connected to everything so beautifully you would not even know it was there.
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This ties in somewhat so I thougt I would share it.
InnerSelf.com - Daily Inspiration:
Compassion is not the eleventh commandment.
Why not? Because it is a spirituality and a way of living and walking through life. It is the way we treat all there is in life -- ourselves, our bodies, our imaginations and dreams, our neighbors, our enemies, our air, our water, our earth, our animals, our death, our space, and our time.
Compassion is a spirituality as if creation mattered. It is treating all creation as holy and as divine... which is what it is.
EXCERPTED FROM the InnerSelf.com article:
Altruism vs. Compassion
by Matthew Fox.
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Uma, thank you for saying what I do not have the energy for in ALL your posts. You are a beautiful light!
Dixon, Uma is right about your stimulating the thought processes here. It certainly makes me clarify and deepen my own beliefs and thoughts. I want you to know Dixon, that yesterday after reading your comments I looked in my shell and saw a most gorgeous pearl forming. :) (And I mean that in the kindest way - truly.) Pearls are beautiful. Thank you for helping mine along. In that light you are God's blessing. How could I not love you?
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The give away answer to, "One cannot have both--nothingness and creativity--" is Harold and the Purple Crayon. Should I form that in a question?
That was easy! hee hee!!!
Uma, you go! I am loving your intelligence! I appreciate you. I love it!!!
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Uma - I love you and your comments. Most are very stimulating mentally. Scientists are finding such things as the binding energy of the atom and other constants are apparently purposely designed for mankind's existence. If any of these basic constants were changed minutely -- our world would not exist. Another indication of God's intelligent design.
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DIXON You are nit-picking here. Intelligent design is a slogan for a specific world view that seems to have little to do with either intelligence or the infinite wondrous perfection of creation but only points to underline a "see I told you so attitude" and all those maybes and perhaps indicate my own thoughts, which I think you asked for, what I personally conjecture in my own thoughts. Anything but a maybe and perhaps would indicate a level of arrogance I do not possess.You asked me about my "system" of belief and truly there is no system that I ascribe to but only what vibrates my own truth sense and that is sufficient for me. I wish you weren't so ridged and barricaded but it's your reality. You do stimulate good creative thought from me though as an irritant, and I would miss your voice if it wasn't in the conversation. But still I wish you would broaden your perspective instead of hiding behind your interpretation of your bible like a hermit crab.
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Uma -- And all those processes occur within very tight limits and certain laws of physics all of which demonstrates intelligent design.
And in your explanation please notice all the terms of conjecture used.
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Uma - Correction -- the Bible does not really say it was all created from nothing. God (in existence) spoke (He used His energy) the universe into existence. He set up a set of laws which the physical universe continues to obey. The Bible also says that He keeps it all in order and working.
It was not created out of "nothingness."
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Quantum physics and stochastic electrodynamics offer models of reality that implicitly describe it as a self-directed process occurring within an "infinite" void or vacuum. Within this state of nothingness, a curious thing is unanimously thought to occur. What is essentially light energy, is believed to continually excite or flicker into being producing a field of virtual possibility through which the increasingly complex thresholds of cosmic differentiation and complexity self-organize. The process ranges from the smallest subatomic particles, through atoms, molecules, compounds, cells, organisms, and so on
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