The Right To Be Rich

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No one can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or sould development unless he has plenty of money, for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.

A person develops in mind, sould, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that we must have money in order to become the possessors of things. Therefore, the basis of all advancement must be the science of getting rich.

The object of all life is development, and everything the lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

A person's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be ncecessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.

In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way. To be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No one ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The Purpose of nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life, and everyone should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty, and richness of life. To be content with less is sinful.

The person who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich, and no person who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far and become so complex that even the most oridinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming. This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be. You can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life - and that desire is praiseworthy. The person who doesnot desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

There are three motives for which we live: We live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three - body, mind or soul - can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body, and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.

We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul, and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that a person can give forth through body, mind and soul. Whatever he can say, no one can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in its every function, and unless the smae is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibilityy or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression or functions seeking performance.

A person cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.

To live fully in mind a person must have intellectual recreations, and must sorround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.

To live fully im sould, a person must have love, and love is denied fullest expression by poverty.

A person's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontanous expression in giving. The individual who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as as spouse or parent, as a citizen, or as a human being. It is in the use of material things that a person find full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme improtance to each individual to be rich.

It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich. If you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the science of getting rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity, for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most yourself.

irritation

i don't know know what is going on with me these days. i easily get irritated by the one person who is supposed to be a very good friend. a friendship that goes a way back college days. i really don't know if i could attribute this feeling to my whole dubai situation. i remember that i already overcome this kind of behavior while i was still working in the bank. i read books about it and somehow i was able to apply whatever that particular book tells me to do in whatever situation i may be in. and then came the time that i had to bid my farewell to that job and start something new from somewhere else. somewhere that was not really planned. could it be that the reason that the reason that i am feeling this way is because i never plan things....oh boy, this is going to be bad if i will always keep feeling this way. this is not very productive of me. this is like making 100 steps backward.....

do i still have to ask for signs...

that is what i have been thinking lately. the question now is do i really have to ask for signs when what i really feel deep insided is to go back home. in case you would want to know where i am as of this writing, i am currently in dubai working in an automobile company selling cars for export. specifically, i am the person in charge for cars purchased for Iraq. for the last 4 months that i have been with this company, i have always thought that of leaving the job and go back home and start again in the banking industry where i have been working for the past 11 years. although i don't have a guarantee that i will be able to go back to the same company that i worked with for the longest time, it is my desire to go back in the same industry where i think i would flourish professionally. or that is how i believe where i should be. now, i think it is too late to ask for signs if i should stay or not. i mean, it has been agreed already by my boss that i can now go, even if the person who i am supposed to replace will come back or not. the misgivings that i am feeling lately is due to the fact that i will be going back home kinda failed in my desire to make it big here in dubai.not only that, i am also thinking of the loss in investment that i will incur should i decide to go back home. The worst thing that i have to consider is, the money that i have squandered is not mine, but that of my mother's which she painstakingly saved over the years. oh boy, what would that make me? i can be easily likened to the prodigal son. ain't that a shame?

it has been a while since the last time i posted something in here. i have been meaning to do it but i got busy with my quest for the life i am yearning to have. but the funny thing is, i don't know exactly what is it that i want. ain't is sad that at my age i am still lost soul? how could this be?

The journey starts here…..

I'm on my way. Although I am not sure if doing this is the right thing to do, but I know in my heart, I should do it. It doesn't make me that stressed anymore. I guess, time has helped me make the decision. It really helps when you search within your heart, and ask help from the universe, whatever it is that is bothering you. It has helped me a lot. I know one day, could share this to people, to those who also had this kind of dilemma. In time…

Happiness

It may seem that I am forcing it as of the moment, but I know someday, amidst the fears and the worries, I will find it in my heart to be genuinely happy.

it's not about me...

I am on a quest. I have always been. Searching for life's meaning has always been a yearning so profound it would always make my being ache. Even at a very young age, I already wondered about my existence. Back then, I would ask this question: "If we are, as human beings were created by God, then who created Him?" That would then go on and on because I would then ask all over again, who created his creator. Exhausted, I would then just rest my case. It was never really answered. I guess, I could say that my intellect was beyond me. And so I went on with my life, with no master plan, no vision whatsover. I was just there for the sake of my existence. But I was an empty shell.

I still am, as of writing this. Now that I have nothing to do since I resigned from my very stable job, I still don't have a clue as to where I would go next. I tried working in a call center industry, but it felt as though my heart is not really into it. I was having hard time even with the simple task of introducing myself to the class. How then will I be able to carry on my job if I am having such difficulties. But then, a part of me is screaming why I was accepted in the first place, having to go rounds and rounds of difficult exams and interviews, and still got through, if I really don't have the talent for it?

Up until now, I am still astounded by the fact that I blew my chances of having a cool career, one that I always looked forward to do back when I was still a banker. But when I finally got there, I was still having doubts whether I am really in the right path. I was in doubt because, as I said, I was having a rough time with the training and all. It felt as though, I was so stupid I cannot understand anything, any lesson, the first time I would hear it.

And so came the day that we would take our first call. I sucked big time that I had to flee from the scene and never looked back.....away from it all...don't really know where to go and what to do next.

That was already like a month ago, and I still have not recovered from the fiasco of my first call. Probably my last as I have no intention of going back to that industry again. Well, I probably should not close my doors, especially that at my age, work is not easy to come by in other fields.

And now that I am overcome by fear, fear that I will not be able to stand back on my feet again, I am again at question as to the meaning of all of this, the things that happened to my life, why it has come to this, and above all, what am I really here for?

Then, I came across Rick Warren's book, telling me, that it is not about me. It is about God.......