Prosperity

"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."
Eric Butterworth

People always have defined prosperity as having things. This is probably because our egos are doing the talking. The ego can never have enough things, because those things that we identify with (we call our own) strengthen it. We tend to go so far as to define ourself as a person who has ... But that is, of course, not who we are. Our real self doesn't change whether we live in a mansion or in a shack. Our real self never passes judgment on what we should or shouldn't have, or what we do have.

Prosperity is not just having things. Many people have had plenty of everything, yet they were still miserable, perhaps even enough to commit suicide. That's not wealth. Many other people have struggled to find food and shelter, yet were happy. That's not poverty. Wealth and poverty depend on how you see the world around you. If you see all the blessings around you, you'll be prosperous, even if those blessings just include sunlight, rain, and plants you can dig up and eat. If you see all the things that you don't have yet, then you are living in a state of poverty, no matter how many things you have in real life.

Wealth and poverty are a state of mind. They depend on how much you think you have, not on how much you actually do have. Choose to focus on all the things you do have instead of on all those things that you don't have yet. Choose to be prosperous, no matter what your circumstances are.

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