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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  People say that because everyone around them confirms that it's true, including people like Steve Pavlina and Acting Like Godot. And people see the most financially successful people in the world, and *surprise!*, all of them did a lot of stuff! Bill Gates, the Wal-Mart family (rich from inheritance), and so on... these people (or their parents) worked a lot, or figured out a way to get people to work for them. Someone had to build Rome.
Despite ALG claiming it's possible to sit on his couch and get rich, he still goes to work for 40+ hours a week, and the property he is considered selling was probably bought with his income from working. Unless someone gave it to him as a gift, or inheritance. You would have the answer to that, ALG. |
See, to me, the crux of the question is NOT whether you should:
(1) take some action;
(2) take no action; or
(3) take a lot of action.
The crux of the question is whether your thoughts
alone are capable of attracting into your life the relevant &
significant events, people, resources, information, opportunities etc, that will either:
(a) help you significantly, towards achieving your goal; or
(b) directly, entirely by themselves, achieve your goal.
If the answer is yes (and my personal experience indicates that it is yes), then it still doesn't mean that in every case, you should necessarily
(1) take some action;
(2) take no action; or
(3) take a lot of action.
What it means is that you should stay open to the possibility that even if it appears that something is beyond your control or influence (i.e you are not actually able to "do" anything about it), it isn't really.
It's like Neil Armstrong, at eight years old, setting the intention to go to the moon. At that time, rockets didn't exist; NASA didn't exist; even fighter jets didn't exist.
Still, he held the intention, and he did take some actions (eg studying aeronautical engineering and training to be a pilot), and meanwhile the universe organised itself in amazing weays, so as to take him to the moon. Took a few more decades, but he still got there eventually.
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I'm also curious why you, ALG, choose not to "make a living" from personal development and teaching spirituality? It seems to be one of the main things you enjoy living and talking about.
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I don't feel that I've got enough experience yet.
But yes, one day when I am more advanced, I would like to teach meditation, and actually it is my hope that I can teach it to prison convicts. I think that there must be lots of violent, troubled people in the prisons who would benefit from meditation.
[Odd synchronicity - I just realised - last week at a writer's retreat (the one I manifested for free for myself) - I met a writer who had actually conducted writing workshops for prisoners - teaching them to express themselves - a "writing for therapy" kind of thing. The writer might be able to put me in touch with the prison officers etc]