| "’WE TALK ABUNDANCE HERE.’ I was struck with this motto in a New York office recently. I said to myself, ‘These people are prosperous because they expect prosperity; they do not recognize poverty or admit lacking anything they need.’
The way to make the ideal the reality, is to persistently hold the thought of their identity. The way to demonstrate abundance is to hold it constantly in the mind, to frequently say to yourself, ‘All that my Father hath is mine.’ ‘The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.’ If all this is true (and you know that it is), any want or lack in your life is abnormal.
The great fundamental principle of the law of opulence is our inseparable connection with the creative energy of the universe. When we come into full realization of this connection we shall never want again. It is our sense of separateness from the Power that created us that makes us feel helpless.
But as long as we limit ourselves by thinking that we are separate, insignificant, unrelated atoms in the universe; that the great supply, the creative energy is outside of us, and that only a little of it can in some mysterious way be absorbed by a few people who are ‘fortunate’, ‘lucky’, we shall never come into that abundant supply which is our birthright.
And where did the false idea of the absorption of all the good things by the few, of the necessity of competition, originate? It had it origin in the pessimistic assumption that it is impossible for everybody to be wealthy or successful; in the thought of limitation of all the things which men most desire; and that, there not being enough for all, a few must fight desperately, selfishly for what there is, and the shrewdest, the longest-headed, those with the most staying power, the strongest workers, will get the most of it. This theory is fatal to all individual and race betterment.
There is nothing in this world which mean or women desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody."
- Orison Swett Marden |