The Prosperity & Wealth Bible. Kahlil Gibran
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again and the work is done.” It matters not how small or unimportant your task may seem to be. It may loom bigger in Universal Mind than that of your neighbor, whose position is so much greater in the eyes of the world. Do it well — and Universal Mind will work with you.
But don’t feel limited to any one job or any one line of work. Man was given dominion over all the earth. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
All of energy, all of power, all that can exercise any influence over your life, is in your hands through the power of thought. God — good — is the only power there is. Your mind is part of His mind. He is “the Father that is within you that doeth the works.”
So don’t put any limit upon His power by trying to limit your capabilities. You are not in bondage to anything. All your hopes and dreams can come true. Were you not given dominion over all the earth? And can anyone else take this dominion from you?
All the mysterious psychic powers about which you hear so much today are perfectly natural. I have them. You have them. They only await the time when they shall be allowed to assert their vigor and prove themselves your faithful servitors.
“Be not afraid!” Claim your inheritance. The Universal Mind that supplies all wisdom and power is your mind. And to the extent that you are governed by your understanding of its infinite law of supply you will be able to demonstrate plenty. “According to your faith, be it unto you.”
“Analyze most of the great American fortunes of the past generation,” says Advertising and Selling Fortnightly, “and you will find that they were founded on great faiths. One man’s faith was in oil, another’s in land, and another’s in minerals.
“The fortunes that are being built today are just as surely being built on great faiths, but there is this difference: the emphasis of the faith has been shifted. Today it takes faith in a product or an opportunity, as it always did, but it takes faith in the public, in addition. Those who have the greatest faith in the public — the kind of faith possessed by Henry Ford and H. J. Heinz — and make that faith articulate — build the biggest fortunes.”
“Wanted”
There is one question that bothers many a man. Should he stick to the job he has, or cast about at once for a better one. The answer depends entirely upon what you are striving for. The first thing is to set your goal. What is it you want? A profession? A political appointment? An important executive position? A business of your own?
Every position should yield you three things:
1.Reasonable pay for the present.
2.Knowledge, training, or experience that will be worth money to you in the future.
3.Prestige or acquaintances that will be of assistance to you in attaining your goal.
Judge every opening by those three standards. But don’t overlook chances for valuable training, merely because the pay is small. Though it is a pretty safe rule that the concern with up-to-the-minute methods that it would profit you to learn, also pays up-to-the-minute salaries.
Hold each job long enough to get from it every speck of information there is in it. Hold it long enough to learn the job ahead. Then if there seems no likelihood of a vacancy soon in that job ahead, find one that corresponds to it somewhere else.
Progress! Keep going ahead! Don’t be satisfied merely because your salary is being boosted occasionally. Learn something every day. When you reach the point in your work that you are no longer adding to your store of knowledge or abilities, you are going backward, and it’s time for you to move. Move upward in the organization you are with if you can — but MOVE!
Your actual salary is of slight importance compared with the knowledge and ability you add to your mind. Given a full storehouse there, the salary or the riches will speedily follow. But the biggest salary won’t do you much good for long unless you’ve got the knowledge inside you to back it up.
It’s like a girl picking her husband. She can pick one with a lot of money and no brains, or she can pick one with no money but a lot of ability. In the former case, she’ll have a high time for a little while, ending in a divorce court or in her having a worthless young “rounder” on her hands and no money to pay the bills. In the other, the start will be hard, but she is likely to end up with a happy home she has helped to build, an earnest, hardworking husband who has “arrived” — and happiness.
Money ought to be a consideration in marriage — but never the consideration. Of course it’s an easy matter to pick a man with neither money nor brains. But when it’s a choice of money or brains — take the brains every time. Possessions are of slight importance compared to mind.
Given the inquiring, alert type of mind — you can get any amount of possessions. But the possessions without the mind are nothing. Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to any young couple is to have to start out with little or nothing and work out their salvation together.
What is it you want most from life? Is it riches?
Picture yourself with all the riches you could use, with all the abundance that Nature holds out with such lavish hand everywhere. What would you do with it?
Daydream for a while. Believe that you have that abundance now. Practice being rich in your own mind. See yourself driving that expensive car you have always longed for, living in the sort of house you have often pictured, well-dressed, surrounded by everything to make life worthwhile. Picture yourself spending this money that is yours, lavishly, without a worry as to where more is coming from, knowing that there is no limit to the riches of Mind. Picture yourself doing all those things you would like to do, living the life you would like to live, providing for your loved ones as you would like to see them provided for. See all this in your mind’s eye. Believe it to be true for the moment. Know that it will all be true in the not-very-distant future. Get from it all the pleasure and enjoyment you can.
It is the first step in making your dreams come true. You are creating the model in mind. And if you don’t allow fear or worry to tear it down, Mind will re-create that model for you in your every-day life.
“All that the Father hath is yours,” said Jesus. And a single glance at the heavens and the earth will show you that He has all riches in abundance. Reach out mentally and appropriate to yourself some of these good gifts. You’ve got to do it mentally before you can enjoy it physically. ‘“Tis mind that makes the body rich,” as Shakespeare tells us.
See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then LET them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your LACK of them. Think of them as YOURS, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Look upon money as water that runs the mill of your mind. You are constantly grinding out ideas that the world needs. Your thoughts, your plans, are necessary to the great scheme of things. Money provides the power. But it needs YOU; it needs your ideas, before it can be of any use to the world. The Falls of Niagara would be of no use without the power plants that line the banks. The Falls need these plants to turn their power to account. In the same way, money needs your ideas to become of use to the world.
So instead of thinking that you need money, realize that money needs YOU. Money is just so much wasted energy without work to do. Your ideas provide the outlet for it, the means by which money can do things. Develop your ideas; secure in the knowledge that money is always looking for such an outlet. When the ideas are perfected, money will gravitate your way without conscious effort on your part, if only you don’t dam up the channels with doubts and fears.
“First have something good — then advertise!” said Horace Greeley. First have something that the world needs, even if it be only faithful, interested service — then open up your channels of desire, and dollars will flow to you.
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