The Spiritual Attitude Towards Money - Florence Scovel Shinn
The following is an excerpt from The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn.
You Are a Perfect Idea in Divine Mind
A man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested in the "Science of Numbers," and had had him read. It seems the report was not very favorable, for he said, "My wife says I'll never amount to anything because I am a two."
I replied, "I don't care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in divine mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are already planned for you by that Infinite Intelligence."
No Man Is a Success Unless He Loves His Work
Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year or two later, he achieved a brilliant success as a writer. No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always something to live down.
No Man Can Attract Money If He Despises It
No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying: "Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for people who have it."
This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money separates them from it.
I remember hearing one artist say of another, "He's no good as an artist, he has money in the bank."
This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.
Money Must Be Put to Right Uses
Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding and saving react with grim vengeance.
Opens the Way For More to Come In
This does not mean that man should not have houses and lots, stocks and bonds, for "the barns of the righteous man shall be full." It means man should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when money is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more to come in, for God is man's unfailing and inexhaustible supply.
This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the Universal never fails!
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