What I am saying here touches on a principle that I have elaborated on in previous articles which is that of being preceding doing, which, in turns precedes your having that which you have desired to have. This same wisdom has been captured in our culture in the saying, “fake it ‘til you make it.” This is simply another way of saying that you must learn to be that which you want to be before you can indeed be that which you envision yourself to be.

Recently I have been studying one of the great iconic figures of the twentieth century, Muhammad Ali, and came to realize that this was something he understood well and lived every day in his life. If you are a student of history, black history, or even boxing history, you should well know that long before the world came to acknowledge him as the “greatest of all time” he consistently- and often to the chagrin of the world- proclaimed himself to be that. All that he was doing was faking it until he made it. In other words, Ali understood that in being in his own mind (or at least constantly trying to convince himself that this was true) that which he eventually wanted to become, he would initiate the thoughts consistent with this state of being, which would, in turn, lead to him doing actions that the greatest of all time would do, which would in turn lead to him having all that the greatest of all time would. He understood quite well the mechanics of manifestation, as evidenced by what he manifested in his own life – him becoming the greatest of all time.

So, in your own life, if you are to have the life of your dreams, you must learn to be that which you want to eventually become right now. Therefore, if you eventually want to become, for example, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you must right now begin to present yourself to the world as if you already were the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, in terms of your overall self-presentation to the world of dress, speech, and manner. Projecting your future into the present will only have the effect of the world responding to you as that which you are projecting, and before you know it, “the future” will merge into your present reality.

Going back to our initial point about how most people find their current job through a friend, and therefore, all chance meetings should be treated as interviews, means that being that which you envision yourself becoming will lead to you attracting people that are currently in the position which you would someday like to be. Think about it. People that present themselves to the world as thugs attract other thugs; people that present themselves as athletes attract other athletes; hippies attract other hippies; and so on. Therefore, the way in which the law of attraction (like attracts like) applies to your job search is that if you learn to be that which you seek, that which you seek will be attracted to you. Thus, the best advice I can give you in your job search is to learn to match your current dress, speech, and manner with that of the type of position you would like to be in, and certainly you will attract the type of people that are currently doing that type of work (they will want to connect with you because your overall styles in life are consistent with each others) to you.

It has been said that the great philosopher Nietzsche’s entire philosophy can be reduced to the importance of style. This point that I am trying to make about how people will matching styles are drawn to each other in life is the essence of what I am trying to say about life as an interview. Every type of employment can, in a sense, be evaluated in terms of the overall style of the people that are in that type of environment. What type of dress is required in the position you want to attract? Is it suit and tie? Is it t-shirt and jeans? How do people speak in the position you want to attract? Do they speak the king’s English? Do they speak broken English? What kind of mannerism to these people have? Are they upright and dignified in their manner? Are they harsh and abrasive? All of these things are part of what I mean when I speak of the style of a position. If you can successfully evaluate the style of the position which you would like to attract to yourself, and learn to mold yourself into that style, you will find that the only people that are drawn to you are those whose style (because they are in that position you are seeking) matches your. And from there, it is only a matter of connecting with the new people which you draw into your life, and flushing out the way in which these relationships can be beneficial to all parties involved, the least of which is your own financial life.

One of my sayings that I always try to share with people is that, “the key to greatness is discipline.” And yet, despite the knowing of the truth of this statement, I must admit, that I have not been nearly as disciplined in my life as I would like. For this reason, I want to go on a mental exploration of exactly what discipline is, and how it is possible to be impeccable in the application of such discipline.

I think that a lot of people, when first exposed to the philosophy that “we create our own reality” naively believe that this process is much more simple then it actually is. Though this philosophy rightfully restores our freedom to create in our lives whatever it is we choose to create, this does not mean that this freedom can not be tedious, when divorced from discipline. In other words, freedom comes at a cost. And, more or less, the cost of the freedom to be, do, and have whatever it is we want in our lives, is that of being disciplined in your application of the wisdom life has offered us all (whether that wisdom has come to you from the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, the Taoist texts, the yoga sutras, etc.).

It is undeniable that all of us, no matter what our culture or background in life, have all, at some point in our lives been offered the wisdom of the Universal Laws. Again, the source of these teachings an be as diverse as the Bible or the Koran. But, nonetheless this wisdom has been offered us to all in one form or another. The problem, then, is in our failure to do that which we (at some level) know we need to do in order to make our lives what we really want them to be. And, I suspect that the cause of this disconnect between principles and practices lies in our failure to ever clearly decide exactly what principles that we have been exposed to mean the most, and resonate the most with us. If you can clearly articulate a small set of principles that really resonate with you, you will find that your discipline in applying those principles to your life will increase dramatically, and from there, from that place of applying that which you know to be truth, it will only be a matter of time before you find yourself living the life that you have always dreamed of.

So, what I am saying is that, you can literally stop everything you are doing right now, take out a pen and paper, and write out how you would like the rest of your life to unfold, and release that once and for all, and sit back as that wish you have asked of the Universe becomes your experience. Here is how you can do this:

1) Take out a note pad and a pen
2) Title this page “My Dream Life”
3) Write out in sequential order, everything you would like to have happen in your life today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this year, the next five years, the next ten years, and the rest of your life, in the form of : It is my intention to…
4) Be very specific in your intentions for your life, including describing details of the experience(s) you want to attract to you such as what, when, where, and why (never mention who or how because these are not up to you, they are the responsibility of the Universe to surprise you with how it manifests your desire
5) Never again ask for those intentions. They are already manifest at the moment you ask for them, but asking again can have the effect of “canceling your previous order” in that, you are essentially switching the “light switch” of manifestation back to the ‘off’ setting by asking for it again. So, ask once, and never ask again, because having turned the Universe on with your initial intent, you do not want to turn the switch ‘off’ again by asking again and again.

This is truly the final exercise for you to complete on what has become a sort of “school of magic” here on the internet. If you do this exercise as instructed, there will be nothing else that you will need to do in order to have the life of your dreams. There is a great saying that the great mystics often employ when they speak of doing nothing but accomplishing everything. There comes a point in your understanding of the magical process when you realize that all that you have to do to have anything in life is to ask the Universe one time, let go and let God, and surely it will be yours. And, at this point when you realize that the greatest power you have in life is to surrender yourself to the Universe by asking that it exercise its awesome power in you life, you will find yourself doing nothing and accomplishing everything. So, take the time out to do this exercise as instructed and after that truly there is nothing again that you will ever have to do to achieve success in your life. Just ask this one time for everything you could ever dream of to happen in your life, release those desires once and for all, and surely, in ways you could never have imagined, the life of your dreams will be yours.

Ordinarily, when people think about praying for or intending certain inconsequential things to come to them, they are detached from its manifesting. For example, if you are intending to manifest a small amount of cash in order to be able to see a show or go out on a date, then you are relatively detached about receiving that small amount of cash because you realize that being able to do these types of things (concerts, dates, etc.) aren’t really so relevant in terms of the more pressing concerns that we all face in life (bills, gainful employment, adequate transportation, maintaining your health, taking care of loved ones, and so on). Thus, when it comes to attempting to manifest these things, there tends to be a sense of attachment to these things manifesting, as we perceive them to be somehow more important than the smaller things of life like, for instance, concerts and dates. And, it is this very perception of difference of scale of different experiences that life has to offer to us that ends up being the impediment to us receiving those “larger” things in life. If only you would learn not to “sweat the big stuff” you would find those things flowing to you more easily and effortlessly.

What I am saying here is that the emotional attitude of attachment functions as a type of resistance or dam to your highest good flowing to you. If you understand that, as human beings, we function like magnets that magnetize things to us based on our predominant emotional attitude or vibrational frequency. Thus, all that I am really saying is that the emotion of attachment is a lower vibrational frequency, and therefore attracts to you lower vibrational experiences. Going back to the example from my own life of being able to manifest “small” things into my life easily, this is simply because the emotion of attachment is seldom present in my envisioning of these things coming into my life. Whereas, in attempting to manifest those larger things into my life, there is again, there sense of attachmen to the outcome because of the illusion of grandeur. That is, there is a great illusion within human beings, one that I have often succumbed to myself, that somethings are grand and others, small. In truth, all experiences are equal in the eyes of the Creator, and thus, will be granted onto us without discrimination, provided that we ourselves, learn to not discriminate between some things we have taught are small, and those things that we are taught are large.

The best way to illustrate this would be in that grand source of discrimination in our society, which is material wealth. This is not so much a sociological point that I am trying to make as much as a spiritual point. For example, we have taught to believe that there is a real difference between the awe of possessing a penny and the awe of possession one billion dollars, when, in fact, both of these extremes are but the contrast of experience available to us all on this plane of relative truth(i.e., the plane where we come to experience the absolute unity of all by experiencing the illusion of diversity of experience). In truth, all experiences are empty, with none of them being lasting or with substance. That is why the great Buddhist sages say that all is appearance-emptiness. In time, the entire range of experience will be known to you, and you witness as they all appear and then dissolve, only to appear and dissolve again, thus demonstrating all phenomena as empty of real substance.

So, when it comes to manifesting the “big” things in life, it is actually quite simple once you come to understand the empty nature of it, as well as the inherent emptiness of everything else. Once you come to understand that, you will literally come to order (your wish is my command) all the most grand experiences this Universe could ever offer with the ease, detachment, and sense of nonchalance which you would order a meal at a fast food restaurant. “I’ll have an order of a billion dollars, a gorgeous wife, a huge mansion, the most stylish car ever made, and all the other trappings of a king, please.” And the genie in a bottle that is the YOUniverse will certainly deliver this fast food to you in an instant. This is the true nature of the Universe. When we are told of the mythical tale of Aladdin and the genie in a bottle, we are being given a glimpse into the true nature of life. Life is such that all that we command (intend) will flow onto us in accordance with our belief. If we believe that some things take a long time to manifest, they will; if we believe that some things will manifest in a short amount of time, they will. Thus, the key to solving the problem of prolonged time in the manifestation of your desires is to let go of the delusion that some experiences are large and small. I say to you that all experience is inconsequential, appearing and dissolving in the blink of an eye, and thus you can call any of them (from a penny to a billion dollars) forth with out any effort whatsoever, and know that it will manifest because the Universe is indeed our genie in a bottle, granting onto us whatever it is we desire.

The way in which to apply this knowledge to your life is to write out a list of things you would like to have in your life is simply to write out everything you want in your life, in the form of “ it is my intention to…” (e.g. it is my intention to be a millionaire within one year of today) and state that intention to the Universe one time, and one time only. Sometimes, when people intend to experience certain things, they state that intent over and over again to the Universe, as if having experienced the things they intend to experience happen yet, they act as if the Universe did not hear them the first time. When, in fact, you only need to state your desire to the Universe one time, as unlike us, it is pure consciousness, ever alert, ever attentive, and thus, could never miss even a single thought we have impressed upon it. The Universe that we live in is fully aware and can act on the intention we impress upon it, the very moment we impress it upon it. Much like a lot of soil, we only need plant the seed in the soil one time (and not continue to dig up that seed and check on its progress or attempt to supplant that seed with some other seed) and the Universe will do the rest, nurturing and nourishing the seed into its fruition.

So, write out the list of intentions that you have for your entire life, read those intentions out loud to the Universe one time, and then let go, and let the nourishing soil of Spirit do the rest. Surely, that which you ask for will be bestowed upon you as it is spiritual law that dictates, “ask and ye shall receive.” And, of course, it is the dictates of that grand genie in a bottle that we call the Universe that your wish is its command.

Put another way, the Universe, much like a computer, can be thought of as an interface that produces results in accordance with the instructions it has been given by you, the programmer (creator). If you make a programming error, the results will come back with an error report (i.e. the results you get will seem erroneous to you). But, when you properly understand the rules and syntax of this language, what I will call MPL (manifestation programming language), you will be able to create the results you want.

Here are the rules of MPL that will allow you to yield the results you want in your life.

1) Every instruction begins with your intention. Thus, the best way to instruct the cosmic computer to execute any task for you is by beginning your request with the words, “it is my intention to/that…”
2) You must provide as the rest of your instruction the very specific details of what, when, where, and why in each request
3) You can not instruct the cosmic computer in any way about the ‘how’ and ‘who’ of a request. These are “syntax errors.” The cosmic computer has built in instructions that are beyond our comprehension that can’t be overridden when it comes to ‘how’ and ‘who.’
4) Giving the same instructions to the cosmic computer twice has the affect of canceling out the request all together. You must only intend for something to happen once if it is to happen.

The Universe is a perfect computer that is not possible of making mistakes. Thus, the output generated in your life has only generated what you perceive to be errors because of your violation of this very strict set of “syntax” rules. If you fully understand the language of MPL, you will never again create things in your life that you do not want. In fact, you will find just the opposite, that truly you are the creator (programmer) of your own life , and the only reason you have ever experienced any kind of dissatisfaction in your life is because you didn’t know these rules. Now you do. Apply them to your life and behold at the awesome speed and precision with which the Universe produces the desired outcome in your life, on every level of your life.

Kevin Kinchen

You will know that you have reached that elusive milestone called manhood simply by observing yourself through life’s’ vicissitudes. Everyone, no matter who we are in life, must experience life as an ebb and flow of success and failure. None of us can experience a life of complete victory, nor total defeat. We all experience both in life.

The difference between a boy and a man, then, lies in relationship to this fundamental truth of life. Quite simply, a boy does not realize that failure is the path to success, whereas a man realizes that this is such. In other words, the only difference between a man and a boy is that a man can see through the illusion of failure, realizing that there is, in fact, no such thing as failure. A man realizes that, on the contrary, failure is but feedback teaching us the way to our success, and that even such success is transient.

To put it another way, a man is one that has learned to be detached in the experience of failure and success, accepting both as transient and impermanent as clouds passing through the sky. That is, the realization of manhood is to be found in the realization of life’s impermanent nature, and thus, accepts gain and loss as the same, not more attached to one over the other.

In indigenous societies- ancient human societies where human beings lived with nature (as opposed to living separated from nature) – the wise elders of the community who had come to such a realization would systematically lead all the boys of the community to this realization through a rigorous rite of passage. Though we do not have a formal rite of passage in this society, there are, nonetheless still life trials that we are called to endure that can have the same function as these ancient rites, in that they can lead us to the realization of this truth, for the purposes of allowing us to move skillfully through life.

The reason why it is this singular realization that is the essence of manhood is because the reason why any being incarnates into physical form as a male is for Spirit to explore this aspect of itself. And the aspect of Spirit that Spirit is trying to know within itself experientially is stillness. You see, there are two aspects of Spirit ultimately, stillness and dynamism. These sides, which we can understand as the masculine and feminine aspects of Spirit are the essence of creation in that it is ultimately a dance of stillness and dynamism. Thus, the masculine side of spirit, the side that you have incarnated to experience is stillness.

And, given that it is stillness that is the essence of masculinity (literally the masculine side of Spirit), it is in stillness that the acceptance of the ephemeral nature of success and failure, victory and defeat, loss and gain, is complete. Thus, it is in the stillness of mind, which accepts the ebb and flow illusion of success and failure, that a boy becomes a man- which is really a master.

Unfortunately, none can give this realization to another. In time, in response to the many trials that life will present to you, you will come to accept loss and gain, failure and success as one. And then, and only then, you will know that at last you have become a man.

In the context of manifesting with the law of attraction, it is important that we carefully choose the company that we keep because the way in which the people we surround ourselves with can have the effect of either raising or lowering our vibration based on their predominate way of vibration – basically chronically happy or miserable. It is indeed true that misery loves company, and, it is equally true that bliss loves company. So, make sure to always surround yourself with positive, happy people.

Perhaps you would find it useful to take a few moments to evaluate the company you regularly keep, and decided which of these people fit into your desire to always feel good so that you are always attracting good. From there, you can actually take the time to write out a list of people that you know that are generally positive, happy people, and make a commitment to try to spend as much time with these people as possible to insure that their happiness rubs off on you.

Over the course of my own life, I have made close friends as diverse as chronically depressed alcoholics to chronically happy and successful business men and women. In retrospect, it is clear to me that my chronically depressed friends have always had the effect of dragging me into their dark emotional space, thus beginning a vicious cycle of depression and negative attractions. As for my successful and happy friends, they have had the exact opposite effect. So, I know first-hand how this works.

I highly recommend to you that you take a few moments out of your busy day and write out a list of the most successful and happy acquaintances you have, including any contact information you may have on them, and consult that list anytime you need to see a friendly face that will help uplift your emotional state. Now, if you yourself are a chronically depressed person you may be worried about having the reverse effect on your contented friends. That is, you may be worried that you will drag them down into your dark place. If this is the case, you may need to make an effort to surround yourself with an entire group of friendly faces to ensure that their positivity overrides the negativity you currently find yourself in. But, I assure you, this is a really simple and effective way to give yourself a quick boost of positivity when you are in need. If I may, you can always depend on a friendly face to take you to an uplifted place.

It is my belief that if more kind-hearted people would allow themselves to earn a vast amount of money, the condition in which the world is in could only change for the better. As it stands, a great many of the world’s wealthiest people are cruel and greedy, and therefore, only know how to use the immense power that material wealth affords you to do further acts of cruel injustice in this world. It is, therefore, a sad fact that the kindest and most compassionate people in the world are not wiling to join the worlds wealthy simply because they have the misguided belief that power (in this case material wealth) corrupts.

Money, which is power in this world, is in no way corrupting. The true effect that money has on a person is that of a brutally honest mirror that reflects back to you that which you really are. So if, for example, you are a person that is unconsciously prone to sex and drug addictions, you would not know this about yourself because you don’t have the means to explore such addictions in the state of poverty. But, once you acquire a significant amount of wealth, all of a sudden, you have almost unlimited access to the entire spectrum of vices (and virtues) that this world has to offer. It would be then that you would discover the degree to which you are corrupt, as well as the degree to which you are virtuous. The point is that it is not the money-power that corrupts you, but rather, it was the money that gave you the free reigns to, for the first time in your life, fully express your most corrupt desires.

Given this, it is understandable why many people avoid allowing themselves access to such power- they may be afraid what they will do with it. However, contrary to the many people that would shun such power out of fear of what parts of themselves will be exposed (e.g. sex addict, drug addict, etc.), I believe a better approach would be to hold back from acquiring such wealth until you have done a rather complete psychological inventory on yourself. That is, before declaring to the Universe that you are ready for material prosperity, take an honest look at your own shadow (dark aspects of the unconscious we like to pretend aren’t in us) and assess how powerful certain destructive urges are within you. If you find in this self-assessment that certain dark urges are overwhelmingly powerful within you, you may need to work through these prior to calling forth vast sums of money into your experience, lest you use this money-power in self-destructive ways.

Here are a few questions worth asking yourself to determine if you are ready to have a great amount of money-power in your life:

1) Do you have an insatiable sexual appetite?
2) Have you ever been sexually abused? If yes, are you still dealing with the after-effects of that experience?
3) Do you spend a disproportionate amount of the money you currently have on drugs and/or alcohol?
4) Do you often entertain perverse sexual fantasies?
5) Do you often entertain fantasies of inflicting cruel punishment on others?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, it is worthwhile to try to resolve these issues through some type of counseling or therapy prior to calling forth money-power into your life. As we’ve illustrated, amassing a fortune now would only have the effect of allowing you to act out these destructive and self-destructive desires and habits to a greater extent than you can now.

With that said, let’s go back to the initial point of earning, as opposed to saving money. If you are a lightworker and have the means to work through deep-seeded psychological issues that would be exposed as corrupt upon the introduction of money-power, you should open yourself to receiving as much money-power as possible.

As I outlined in a previous article, Money: The Root of All Good, there is much good that can be done in the world with money, if only the most conscious people would acquire wealth and channel that wealth towards worthwhile and necessary causes like cancer research, AIDS research, ending world hunger, domestic violence, sexual assault, and so on. Furthermore, it must be understood that though you may choose to earn a great amount of wealth, it is not necessary for you to retain that wealth. Rather, if you are really concerned about the state of this world we live in, you would tithe the majority of the money you earn (once you start earning in the millions) towards causes that would uplift the condition of the world.

In conclusion, now that you truly understood the type of power that money really is, you must be cautious in amassing it, as it may lead to the exposure of your latent corrupt desires and habits. But, if you can work through these issues prior to ever acquiring a great amount of money-power, you must make a point of acquiring, and channeling towards the most noble causes as much money as you possible can. In recent news, we have been made aware of the philanthropic works of two of the world’s wealthiest people: Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates. They understand very well the proper use of this power, and are doing a great deal of good in this world. If you truly do care about the state of this world, I suggest you follow their lead. Acquire as much wealth as you possibly can, and use that wealth to make this world we live in a better place for all of us.

When it is said that if we ask we shall receive, it is important to understand that the intermediary step between our asking for what it is that we desire and receiving that desire is matching. That is, becoming a vibrational match to your desires. Vibrational matching is simply the process of finding the “feeling place” of what it is you desire in the present moment, as if you have already received whatever it is you have asked for. In a sense, this vibrational matching is really our learning to receive that which we have asked for internally, in order for it to manifest into our experience externally.

This is a very important point to understand: you can not receive your desire externally until you first receive it internally. And all that this means is that you must learn to match your inner state of being now with the way you will feel later, when you actually do receive that you which you have asked for.

Why is this? The fundamental truth that must be understood in order to comprehend why we must internally receive before we can externally receive is that saying that has been passed onto us by the mystics that came before us: “we are not in the world, the world is in us.” What this means is that the world that that we perceive to be “out there” is, in fact, nothing other than the projection of our own mind, outwards. In other words, there really is no world “out there.” The world that we falsely perceive to be outside of us is actually nothing other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true state of own mind. I have often called the deepest intelligence inside of each of us our Inner Being, and likewise the phenomenal world can be thought of as our Outer Being. The world is nothing more than the projection of our mind.

Thus, we must receive internally before we can receive externally because the external is actually borne of the internal. Mind is a cause, matter is an effect. Thus the saying “mind over matter.” And, when it comes to the process of manifesting our desires it could be said that “mind precedes matter.” That is, what happens in the mind causes and precedes what happens in the world. And therefore, the entire process of manifestation, from asking to receiving, must happen in the mind before it can happen in the world.

Thus, the simplest way to understand manifestation is to understand this three step process. 1) Ask for whatever it is you desire. 2) Become a vibrational match with that thing that you desire. 3) Receive it externally. Let’s explore each of these steps in greater detail.

1) Asking. The statement, “ask and ye shall receive” could more appropriate be put, “intend and ye shall receive.” As I have suggested in previous articles, anything you intend to experience you must experience because intent is the force that initiates movement in the cosmos. So, manifestation must, by necessity, begin with an intention for what is you would like to happen. Thus, the starting point for you to apply this truth in your life is to literally write out a specific intention(s) for what it is you would like to bring into your life (e.g. it is my intention to be a millionaire by January,1, 2008).

2) Vibrational Match. This is the act of receiving your desire internally by matching the emotional state you would have if you already had that which you intended to have right now. There are many ways to put yourself into this place of uplifted emotion including meditation, prayer, and physical exercise. In short, you must make a regular, daily practice of feeling as good now as you would if you already had that which you have asked for.

3) Receiving. When you have learned to set an intention, and to always be in vibrational alignment with that intention, it is only a matter of time before that which was once only held in your mind will be held in your hands.

This really is the entire process of manifesting your desires into physical form. It is said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. This kingdom is really just the place of your greatest joy and bliss that is deep within you. And surely, if you can learn to stay centered in this place of heaven, you will always be a vibrational match to your grandest desires in life. In fact, if you could learn to always be a vibrational match to this place of heavenly joy, you would find that this vibrational “match made in heaven” would be the catalyst to your receiving externally all that you have ever desired in life.

Deepak Chopra

What is money? All of us, if we are honest with ourselves, must admit that we really enjoy the experience of having money, and the doors of opportunity that it can open for us in our society, even though this rather large aspect of human life remains an elusive mystery to many of us. That is, even as money is one of the greatest desires that we all have, we don’t truly know what it is, and therefore, don’t know how to bring more of into our lives.

If we are to understand what money is, we can begin by first understanding what it does. Quite simply, what money does is allow us to acquire all that it is that we need in order to live. It is money exchanged that allows us to nourish our bodies, clothe our bodies, shelter our bodies, and educate our minds. Thus, money has the effect of sustaining, maintaining, and improving our bodies and minds. But, no effect is without a cause, and therefore, we must investigate the cause of money.

Going back to Deepak Chopra’s assertion that “money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the Universe,” the cause of money should become obvious. If money is energy we use as a result of service, then service must be the cause of money. Thus, it is the service that each of us provides to the All that is the cause of money moving into our lives. Obviously, the greater the service we render, the greater the return we will receive. But, this still does not give us insight into the true nature of money.

If service is a cause and money an effect, then it must follow that money is fundamentally service. That is, money is a tangible symbol that represents the intangible action of service. Thus, money is a symbol that represents service. You could think of money that you currently have in your life as being proof that you have been of service to the world. If currently you are finding that you have nominal amounts of money in your life it is because the service you have provided is not as great as you can give. But, if you are ready to acquire great amounts of wealth, all that you have to do is reach deep into the chambers of your heart and find the gift that you are really wanting to give to the world. In truth, each of us has inside of us a gift that will be beneficial to all, and it is the giving of that gift that results in your having material wealth. Remember, money is service, and the nature of the service we provides will dictate the quality of return we will see in our life.

So, going back to our initial question, “what is money?” I believe the answer is that money is service, or the proof thereof. A large service yields large returns, and small service yields small returns. And what is the difference between a large service and a small service? A small service is one that is not congruent with the deepest yearnings of your own heart. A large service, on the other hand, is one that is congruent with your own heart. Thus, it is my personal belief that the key to wealth is to be found deep in the chambers of your own heart. All of us have such a key that will unlock our own personal treasure chest of vast fortunes, but the problem heretofore, has been that we’ve been trying to unlock that chest with the wrong key. That is, we’ve been giving a service that doesn’t resonate with our own heart.

In conclusion, I would say that money is service. And, great wealth comes from great service. And great service is nothing other than that unique gift that is in your heart. Simply give of that gift and all else will be bestowed upon you.