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Originally Posted by wolfgang  But on topic, my thoughts end up like you describe - with some sort of evolution from me, me, me and then expanding our love/compassion as much as we are able to. And also that we can not expand until first we have fullfilled our own needs. Can a begger give what he/she is begging for? |
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. For example, I used to be broke and in debt and basically my life sucked. I went into self-development about 13 years ago and completely turned my life around. I now make good money working for a company, and in my spare time I work on my blog.
The thing is that because my needs are already met with my "job", I'm not so concerned about making money from my blog. Of course I allow it if it comes, but I would say that if my path so far in life was 95% SELFWorker, my blog project is probably 95% WORLDWorker.
Obviously, Steve also makes more than enough money now for him and his family to be comfortable. I'm wondering if that's the progression of it? Almost like the pyramid of human needs. It's like first we have to take care of our basic needs like food, shelter, clothing etc. then it moves up the pyramid and at the top levels we start getting into the "help the world" stuff. The reason we CAN do it though is because we've already helped ourselves through the base levels towards the higher level.
So maybe it works like this: You start at the lower levels of consciousness and you use SELFWorker mode to move up the ladder...then, as you move up the ladder you become 90% SELFWorker and 10% WORLDWorker etc. and eventually by the time you're at the level of Reason you're at like 50%/50% SELF/WORLDWorker and it's time to decide the path.
The reason I'm saying this is that now that I've defined things as SELF/WORLD worker, I can see that I've been kind of moving AWAY from SELFWorker over the last few years and into WORLDWorker more and more, so maybe it's a natural progression.
Maybe Steve's hit that point as well. I think it happens at the point in your life where you make enough money to we really comfortable, so that you're no longer concerned about money, and you now become more concerned about more then just yourself and your family.
What do you guys think?