The Greatest Wealth

The greatest wealth is to cause wealth for the greatest number of people.

I am part of that goal.

I have read and studied some of Napoleon Hill’s amazing, moral and freeing works.

He, truly, made more wealthy people than the individual industrial leaders of his time.

And he, too, built quite a wealthy financial legacy.

Our true wealth comes from within.

When we read something or take a workshop which resonates deeply within us, we know we are connecting with a deep truth for ourselves.

We, too, have great wealth, within, waiting for us to recognize and share it.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

In the Force

In the force of the flow of uplifting ideas and compassion, we are led to join others of like-mind.

The wonderful thing about limited minds and means is that they really do run out.

The beautiful thing about unlimited ideas is that generosity and kindness do not run out.

Since we can always express them under any and all circumstances, they are the real power, the real force.

Focusing our minds and concentrating our efforts on consideration, upliftment unselfishness and productivity redirects effort and sustains us in new ways.

Compassion always ives on and does the beautiful work of which it is capable.

The real force flows within each of us and joins us together to live well, all of us.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

J.A.R.

No judgement.

No attachment.

No resistance.

This is the way I understand Eckert Tolle’s description of conscious awareness in his book A New Earth.  http://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection/dp/0452289963

He describes how this leads to a perception of “Inner Space”.

He compares the distances within our body of atoms to the scale of astronomical distances.

In this “Inner Space” we have not thoughts, only “Presence”.

In meditating on non-judgement, non-attachment and non-resistance, I found myself relieved of a never-ending story regarding an incident of unhappiness grief, and frustration.

The bodily processes that follow it were anything but calm.

I do not enjoy having my body as the battleground between old and new thought-processes.

However, I am glad to be learning how to let my life be shaped and directed in a new way.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Personality

In meeting someone new, it is always interesting to discover the person within.

I was introduced to “Jim” during casual conversation between him and a mutual acquaintance.

Later, as our conversation developed, I learned about his background and approach to life.

Although he is dealing with some of the effects of aging, (he is 74), he is involved in developing his talents (playing the banjo), service to others (helping repair a car), and is unfailingly polite.

His upbeat attitude and humorous approach to life make him an engaging conversationalist.

I would have guessed him to be twenty years younger with his enthusiasm.

It is a lift to talk to him.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Our New Earth

I am the manifestation of infinite divine power.

I draw all those to me who are ready to do divine work.

All those who are ready to be blessed and to take up the work hear my call.

With willing hands and willing minds and hearts, we begin the transformation.

Building a new community, we follow those before us.

Valuing each person, recognizing inner worth, we take the practical steps to provide for all of us.

Community by community all feel welcome, useful, privileged.

Harmoniously, we blend, we exchange, we share, we receive, we overflow.

We sing, we dance, we create art, we celebrate.

We live in a new earth.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

The End of Growth

I have been reading The End of Growth, by Richard Heinberg.  

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Growth-Adapting-Economic/dp/0865716951

He has described the physical, political, geographical, industrial world as it has progressed through its historic stages.

The present stage cannot continue the way it has in the past.

As I read his analysis with increasing dismay, I realized that we are actually in transition to a new kind of growth.

As we shift our practice to what is deeply within each of us, we find our true purpose.

Within, are unlimited resources for unlimited spiritual growth.

All the little steps we have taken to help uplift one another point to this kind of growth.

We are entering a new kind of stage, no longer one where we can keep living outward, because those kinds of resources are limited.

The new inner lives we all have the privilege of developing will lead us to different ways of supporting one another.

We will lift each other up by our sense of divine purpose, and we will continue finding the unlimited spiritual resources to do so.

This is only the end of one kind of growth.

We are evolving into another kind.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

No Resistance

My aversion to the way territorial politics and greed are carrying out their actions is complete.

But I will not fuel it with any hatred.

I am incredulous at the immaturity and barbarousness of this present reenactment of historical methods.  

However, I will add the weight of my practice, my thought, my energy to the cultivation of appreciation for individuality, culture, imagination, and innovation.

I love the solutions that I hear about.

I love the participation of new, young innovators.

I love the solid reputations of those who have gone before and who remain steadfast.

Let us celebrate a new practice of respect and value for all and quit feeding the monstrous practices of the past.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com