I think the core of the disagreement here, Frans, is that you believe in scarcity. "Enjoy your Ramen noodles because children are starving in China". The reason anyone is starving anywhere does not have anything to do with global or universal scarcity; it has to do with resources not being tapped into.
"A million dollars" is kind of a silly, cliched term that gets thrown about too easily because #1) we have a base-ten number system and #2) for the better part of the 20th century it was enough to get through your whole life without working. But attracting more money into my life would leave me the time and energy to create more music and generate more ideas that would benefit the human race overall, so once I put it in my mind to manifest something like that it won't be at anyone else's expense, nor will it be "selfish".
As for being "sucked in" to the I-M mindset, this is something I've observed in action for most of my life without completely harnessing it; the only thing Steve, Esther/Abraham, or The Secret have done for me is put a name on it and show me I'm not the only one aware of this.
I've always referred back to the #1 rule of tightrope walking: "don't look down". That pretty much sums it up. You're always looking somewhere, and it's up to you to choose where to look. Since you appreciate what you have, you probably aren't in any danger of losing it -- that's good -- if you need more you will know, and you will get it. If you feel like you're in just the right place for yourself in every way, then good on you. I personally know I have the potential to achieve more than I have so far, and I'm looking to do that. The point is to take my mind off of the dissatisfaction and put it on the appreciation, so that I can nourish the good aspects of my life and let the unsatisfactory aspects slip away.
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