Hi all I know from the book we prepare ourselves to receive. Meaning that we are taking action toward our CMI and by taking that action when the opportunity presents itself we are ready to receive.

I have also learned in other spiritual teachings that you should always accept gifts, meaning to receive them.

Now I have a situation where I am living my CMI but the deposits are not in my bank account yet!

However I am ok financially for awhile right now.

Someone very rich wants to give us money, really wants to give it. Much elder gentleman who really my wife has become friends with and wants to help us....however we do not need that help at this time. My family and I are very friendly down to earth people and perform community service.

Wanted to make sure I am not going against the source!

Please let me know

Sure we are ok and I am advancing meaning I know that I am not still using everything to the best of my abilities yet, and this journey is fun watching me grow into my CMI how all problems get covered!

However I do not have the "security" yet to just go blow money, but that is not the right way to live either because as we advance we need to use what we have

How about Listen to your "inner voice"?

Here's some text from SOGR...

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Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive it when it reaches you. You are not to take it as a charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.

Also, if you don't know this person very well how can you be sure of his intentions? - on the other hand if you really do then you know enough to make a desicion.

That said, giving/receiving with the right motive is always a nice thing to do, I think.

Hi Steve17!
This morning, as I headed out, we had a small dusting of snow (for those unfamiliar with snow, its rain with a cold - all plugged up). Anyway, I was following a car and its rear window was covered in snow so I couldn't see beyond it. I wondered to myself, "Why are they going so slow?". Then a pedestrian, crossing in the middle of the road appeared. Aha! I just couldn't see beyond what was right infront of me. I should have known that there was a good reason for the car moving so slowly in front of me and accepted that the answer would come to me sooner or later. Why the hesitancy to accept? (You know what Wattles says about being hesitant!). Best Wishes. More to all and less to none.

I find the 2 responses I received up to this point very interesting.

In one let's just say as he wanted to give me a house where I live the property taxes could be 17k a year alone and the value $800k. well maybe that he has friends that talk with him who never expected anything is more use value than his cash value. he has said many times he has no respect for anyone in his family.

Now I am not sying that is a justified answer, what I am saying is we may be giving him more in use value than he receives now... i think we have to agree that it is possible.

Another thing is his agenda I am not sure of except the fact that he is old and not proud of his family and just looking for comapny and some sort of legacy.

I mean when you are rich and near the possible end would you not want your money to mean something or go for good?

Hi Steve17!
I think one has to return to the basics. Do you have a CMI of what it is you want? Is this offer in keeping with that CMI! Can you give more value in return? Accept gratiously.
Unless this benefactor is not lucid, he must see something in you and/or your wife that makes him feel good about helping you. It does not appear to be merely "charity" on his behalf.

Hi Steve17,
I hope this reply helps you. I've only been studying the SOGR and PG course for about a month or so. But, I've been in teachings, of a spiritual nature for many years. I once had a pastor's wife/teacher tell me "you don't eat somebody else's seed". She explained it by saying that if someone offers you a gift, they are sewing seeds into you to meet their own needs. By rejecting the gift you are, essentially, eating their seed. It won't grow into the harvest they need if you don't accept it.

As in the excerpt quoted by Zero, "Your thought makes all things, . . . work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive it when it reaches you."

If I remember correctly, we are to be channels of freely flowing prosperity. Some money comes in so some can go out. If your family does not need the money, what about the community in which you perform services? Couldn't you do more to help others if you had more money? Remember more to all and less to none.

Be blessed and prosper.
Sandra

Hi Steve 17,

I think a similar concern about receiving gifts was raised by `snell2x' in the `Lets Talk It Over' forum.

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What do you think about the things you want coming to you in the form of gifts? I mean obviously it feels great, but there is something inside me that wants so bad for it to be earned and "rightfully" ours. I almost feel like a gift wouldn't be as rewarding as money in the form of a paycheck. Thank you!Kayla


I posted some of my thoughts on this subject which may be of some help. I would like to add some further thoughts I had on this subject:

* When we give people a gift, we would like the recepient to enjoy it and appreciate it! It gives us joy to be giving a gift, especially one which we feel they so deserve. If the recepient is reluctant (whether by a feeling of guilt, of by feeling undeserving, etc.) he or she is blocking the flow! After all if you are going to put the gift to good use, what is the problem?

* We all `deserve' just by the fact that we are alive! Do we tell the infant "You must smile, sing or do some tricks before I feed you!" Of course not. The infant deserves to be fed by the very fact of his being alive. But as the child gets older the parents stop being unconditionally loving and begin to ask for an exchange: "You must perform well in school before you get the treat; you must do your chores before you get your allowance etc!" This refrain is continued by teachers and by religion. Finally as an adult we end up with loads of guilt and feel "I must do something before I get something; I must be deserving!'

* The Universe or God works through people! So this may be the Universe's way of `taking care of the details' of manifesting your CMI.

So my take on this is: We should welcome whatever good is coming our way (provided it is in line with our own CMI) and be grateful to the universe. If we truly believe in the abundant universe, we should have no qualms about accepting the largesse it showers upon us!

Cheers.

Gopi

"Choose to create your own reality!"

Hi all I wanted to just update this situation.

As of now we are not receiving the "gift" remember the value could be at $800,000.00 It was offered to my wife not me.

However in discussing with my wife, she made a good point that the offering was not handed, it was more discussion.

So right now I look at it as if it is handed right there and then I would receive the gift. So a suggestion of intent, it is more of a Thank you! at this point.

Do not know how this sits with the formless substance, however learning more of this person and helping to serve him better has made us feel richer!

Thanks

Hello Steve17,
Noticed your great post and can relate to it, since my income has flourished and I am actually frighten by the whole thing.
In permitting the flow of abundance in my life, I actually experience this image in my mind, even if it is frightening at first. If it feels right, do not block it , receive it with joy.
I hpoe this helps.
David

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I have also learned in other spiritual teachings that you should always accept gifts, meaning to receive them.


However I do not have the "security" yet to just go blow money, but that is not the right way to live either because as we advance we need to use what we have