[Erin Pavlina]

One of the traps many lightworkers fall into is thinking they cannot be rich when others are poor. They cannot have while others have not, because that would be selfish. But it's a trap. One I used to be caught in until Steve cleared things up for me.

I never thought it was right for me to be rich while others were poor. And then Steve said, "How many people could you help if you were poor yourself? Could you afford to give a homeless person a thousand dollars?" I of course said no because it would mean I would starve.

So he said, "How many homeless people could you help if you had an extra million dollars lying around?" And that's when it hit me. That as a lightworker I actually had a responsibility to increase my resources to a point where I had so much excess that I could easily give it away to others in a way that was very meaningful. Rather than give a homeless man a quarter or a dollar or a bag of bagels, if I was a millionaire I could open a shelter and house dozens of homeless people and take care of their needs for years, and even work on getting them off the street and earning their own living.

And look at it from the homeless people's perspective. Would they rather get a dollar from a lightworker or a place to live permanently from a lightworker?

When you increase your own capacity, you increase your capacity to help others. That is the responsibility of being a lightworker.