The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. Imagine how it feels to be on a noisy trading floor on Wall Street. Imagine instead how it feels to be alone in a quiet place of worship. But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain us. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.
We have learned how powerful a force money is, how it can create fears that will, if we let them, paralyze us in this life. And we have learned how to silence these fears, and put them behind us. We have learned about the dharma of money, the essential right actions that, once we take them, will put our money, and with it, each and every one of us, in step with the natural order of things, on a course with what comes next, and what comes after that. Most important, we have learned an essential lesson about abundance—that abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind. Our money will see us through this life, and even has the power to live on after we are gone, seeing the people we love through their lives, too, and even on into generations we will never know.
Once we have taken care of the people we love, it is worthy to accumulate money, and in this book we have learned how to attract and create great fortunes. With the responsibility of accumulating money, however, comes the equally urgent responsibility of using money wisely, taking satisfaction in what it can do, knowing as well what it can’t do. Very rich people who take no pleasure in their money and who never share their bounty will never be financially free. People with much, much less, who do take immense pleasure in what they have so carefully created, will in the end be far freer.
I hope that this book will remind you of the richness and worthiness that have been in your life all along, and I hope, too, that this book will help you to create more wealth, to sustain you and those you love. I would like to think that you’ve written notes to yourself in it, turned down the pages that were useful to you, and marked passages that you might want to turn to again later. But this book alone will not make you financially free. Money itself cannot make you financially free. Only you can make yourself financially free, and you can do it—and so much more. You have that power.
Now it is time for this book to end, and for your future to begin. Believe these lessons; live them, for financial freedom is within your reach. I wish you abundance, joy, and true wealth—of all kinds.
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