Yeah, when we talk about
financially independent
Most people can understand
what that means in terms of the world.
I think, for me, from my perspective, it was,
that I realized that there was
there was actually one form of dependency
that was good.
I mean, in this world "dependency"
is not a good word.
You know.
Whether we talk about
co-dependent relationships,
or being dependent on your parents,
or dependent on government handouts,
or dependent on friends to support you,
or whatever.
That’s not a good thing.
And if we talk about
being dependent on drugs
or anything like that.
That’s not a good thing.
What I started to realize was,
there was one form of dependency
that actually was good,
helpful,
healthy.
And that is dependency,
we can call it, intuitive dependence.
That we have a conditioned mind,
that has all these false beliefs that are based on
scarcity, fear and lack.
And then we have an intuitive side,
which we can say is our spirit,
spiritual reality within us.
And as soon as I discovered,
after ten years of full time university,
so I did learn a lot about the world,
economics,
and the body,
and medicine, and
architecture.
I studied all the fields the world has to offer.
But I actually discovered after that,
after I left the university.
was that, if I could open up
and become dependent on the Spirit,
that would be the answer
to all of my problems.
That that spiritual dependency would be
a good form of financial dependency.
There’s Workbook Lessons
in the Course that say,
"I will step back and let Him lead the way."
Jesus is always teaching,
you know,
look at the lilies of the field.
They neither spin or toil.
And, take no thoughts
for what you should wear and eat.
And, "seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven.
All things else will be added unto you".
Even nowadays,
with like the law of, like
the movie, the Secret,
the law of attraction.
It’s saying that if you tune in spiritually,
that everything comes to you
through spiritual practice.
Not through necessarily the way
the world would say
to build financial independence.
The goal is the same;
is eliminating a sense of lack.
Whether we talk about
the sense of trying to become
financially independent in the world,
or you have plenty of resources
and there’s no need to strive so much
as it is just to
to let those resources work for you.
But with the spiritual journey,
it’s like, what I have found is that
everything that I need to fulfill my function
comes very effortlessly and very easily.
I’ve never been into vision-boarding,
or trying to visualize goals for the future.
It’s been more of just
"Okay, tell me what you want."
"Tell me what you want to do your work."
"And I will gladly do it."
And things have come very, very easily.
Like, I never planned on doing world travels.
I was, I never dreamed of it.
I never had any ambitions
to travel the world.
But when a new friend met me and said,
"You should,
start sharing this stuff around the world."
It was a novel idea to me.
And he happened to
be a business man who traveled a lot,
and who accumulated
a lot of frequent flyer points.
So he not only delivered the massage:
You need to travel more
and share these ideas overseas.
But he said,
"How about South America?"
I said, "I’ve never had a thought about that."
And I said,
Well, there’s this lady that wrote last week
to a friend of mine saying
"I am so happy you’re coming to Argentina."
And I said, "What’s that about?"
And she said,
"Oh, I just sent her some free CDs.
And she gave us an invitation."
Turns out the man
had entered a contest.
Where if you stay at these certain hotels,
dine at these restaurants,
take these airlines,
you could win the grand prize
of one million frequent flyer miles.
And which he did win the grand prize.
So he was offering me an invitation
to travel overseas
and offering to fly me
and some of my friends, business class,
to South America on this South America
frequent flyer pool that he had.
So that was an example to me
of the means are provided,
along with the function.
Which is very different from
the way we work in this world.
We think, "Oh it’s great to have goals,
but hey, you’re not going anywhere
without the resources,
without the money,
the whatever."
The means being given.
So that’s one thing
that’s very much of a distinction.
I find that I’ve gone into this flow
and everything that I seem to need
is provided in that flow.
And I’ve kind of gone the opposite
of trying to work in the world’s ways
to become financially independent.
Because I’ve seen that,
given over to the Spirit,
the Spirit can use all of those symbols.
But they come in very unconventional ways.
They don’t come from planning per se.
They come from inner listening
and trusting
and following,
and then they just come very effortlessly.
But the goal is the same.
Nobody likes to feel trapped.
Nobody likes to feel
at the mercy of something.
Nobody likes to feel that
they can’t do something
because they just don’t have
the means to do it.
And in the world’s terms,
money is the means.
And in the spiritual journey,
the miracle,
the miracle of perceptions is the means.
And the Bible says,
"With God all things are possible."
I would say that translates to:
As you really learn to behold the miracle,
then you find that all things
that you are asked to do are
not only possible
but they are very effortless.
So it works out really good.