Prosperity
Prosperity is the out-picturing of substance in our affairs. Everything in the Universe is for us. Nothing is against us. We must know that everywhere we go we meet friendship, love, human interest, and helpfulness. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize, and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people, but not necessarily used by all people.
From the glossary of “The Science of Mind” by Ernest Holmes
From the recent issue of O magazine, Martha Beck has a great quote and prosperity affirmation: “Everything good is readily available” Later on she gives a simple exercise for a shift in consciousness:
It’s almost too easy: Simply by taking your attention off thoughts of scarcity and persistently focusing on observations of abundance, you can replace the nervous, just-in-case mind-set that kept our ancient forebears alive but is killing many of us. The best way to effect this shift is to use these simple exercises:
1. List ten times you thought that there wouldn’t be enough of something and you survived.
2. List ten areas where you have too much, not too little.
3. List 20-or 50, or 1,000-wonderful things that entered your life just at the right time, with no effort on your part. Start with the little things (oxygen, sunlight, a song on the radio). You’ll soon think of bigger ones. Most of my clients realize that the most important things in their lives showed up this way.
Believe me, wealth is something with which one has to learn to live with-and the task is not always as simple as might be imagined.
J. Paul Getty
Forgiveness is an aspect of prosperity. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Yet more on forgiveness: “She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ”
Ralph McGill On Eleanor Roosevelt
Bless those whose prosperity, success, and vast riches irritate, annoy, or excite your envy, and pray specifically and definitely that they become far more successful, richer, and blessed in every conceivable manner. By doing so you will heal your own state of mind.
Joseph Murphy
So, if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
LUKE 16:11
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty to live on happily and to be at peace with his neighbors.
Harry S. Truman
If they obey and serve him,
they shall spend their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasure.
Job 36:11
Money belongs in my pockets!
The Rev. Ike
Poverty-conscious people have an unrealistic view of the power of money. They use money as a scapegoat, supporting the myth that they are unable to do a lot of the things they want to do because of lack of money.
Jerry Gillies
God wants you to be rich. The law of life is abundance, not poverty.
Joseph Murphy
Money is the root of all good.
-The eagleprosperity.net webmaster
“All the events in your life are a mirror image of your thoughts. Your mind can’t grasp this principle if you continue to accept the widespread illusion that external factors determine your life.”
-Mark Fisher