I have been thinking a lot lately on what would be the best solution for the turmoil in the world.

Everyone seems to take all the things we have for granted and the pleasure from any new invention or appliance only seems to last a nanno second.


We have more than we have ever had in history and no one seems to be happy. Perhaps it would be a good idea if things were allowed to bottom out so that we could all evaluate exactly where we are.

Imagine a world where if you ran out of money, you stopped spending. How novel would that be.


If a phone rang and there was no one to answer it, you just said Oh they are not in and carried on.
A world where you had the time to stop and talk to someone and actually LISTEN to what they had to say.


A world where you would GIVE and forget and RECEIVE and never forget.


At some time we will have to have a settling day on all the things that were bound to go wrong.

Thomas Jefferson predicted the crisis we have now, as long ago as 1791.


Thomas Jefferson warned of the damage that would be caused if the people assigned control of the money supply to the banking sector, "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. This
issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly
belongs.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations which already dare to challenge our Government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country" Thomas Jefferson, 1791


I have not included that prediction to worry or scare you but just to illustrate that we really need to take control of our own lives and put new values in and not be pushed around by institutions that are driven by one thing GREED.


Until we as whole start putting the correct values on things, we will never change the inevitable. The further we get from what we all know in our hearts is correct The further we push our happiness away.


As always in any situation whether stress related, money related, work related infact any situation where you are second guessing the out come just ask two questions.


Have I done ALL I can?


Is there ANYTHING else I can do?


If you answer those two questions and action them you can then FORGET that situation, until it presents itself in reality.


As Mark Twain said. Most of the major problems in my life, never happened.


Have a great day
Abundance to All
Croz

Hi Croz;

Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin are both heros of mine (as is Mark Twain). And I do agree with what you had pointed out in this post.

In the Declaration of Independence Ben Franklin changed the guarntee of "happiness" to the guarntee of the "pursuit of happiness". Something that many people forget about these days. Many think that the government owes them happiness rather than allowing them the freedom to create their own happiness.

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Originally posted by croz:
I have been thinking a lot lately on what would be the best solution for the turmoil in the world

IN-teresting, indeed.

If indeed that is so, it may be because the vast majority of people are seeking to live and operate from a standpoint and viewpoint that runs in the opposite direction to what has been expounded by Wattles and his various "contemporaries" (and there are perhaps way too many of them to identify each by name).

Many of them have put forth (in one form or another) the proposition that "happiness" is not to be found in possessions, or the acquisition or accumulation of same. Rather, "happiness" is a state of mind, which must first be established in the mind of the individual, regardless of the present conditions in his or her outside world. Once established and maintained, and through the invariable working of the Law of Thinking (which can be expressed by the oft-quoted phrase: "As a person thinketh in their heart, so are they."), the person's outer world will be re-molded, re-shaped and re-formed (perhaps indirectly, but inevitably) to display conditions and circumstances which correspond to the mental state.

But, for the most part, the average person, operates "in reverse", thinking and believing that first creating conditions (e.g. possession of money, acquisition of material things) will produce the state of mind (e.g. happiness) they desired to experience. And, if or when the mental state they hold, based solely on their acquisitions, seems to fade, they repeat the process (i.e., thinking that acquiring something else, will make them happy, again) - in many cases, for their entire lives.

Naturally, telling such a person that they are operating from a "wrong" viewpoint, i.e., one that will see them perpetually chasing one thing after another, in the name of attaining happiness or any other mental state, is an action that, more often than not, "falls on deaf ears".

And a part of them (that which Bob Proctor would no doubt call their intuitive factor) actually "knows" that they are going about attaining happiness via the wrong method, and is constantly seeking to bring that fact to their attention. That "feeling" ... that "itch at the back of their skull" ... is probably with them constantly. But, due to their ignorance of such matters, the intuitive message is misinterpreted, and they press on in the direction they have chosen for themselves.

From my viewpoint, there may only be one real way to "convince" them that there indeed exists a better path than the one they are currently traversing. That way might have best been described by Mr. Wattles, via an excerpt from what might be called "the third volume of his series" (a.k.a. THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT) - I add a few comments of my own, in parentheses:

"There are men who have such materialistic minds that they are absolutely incapable of comprehending the philosophy set forth in these books (Wattles' series; SOGR being the first installment). There is a great mass of men and women who have lived and worked until they are practically incapable of thought along these lines; and they cannot receive the message. Something may be done for them by demonstration, that is, by living the life before them. For that is the only way they can be aroused. The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching. For this mass of people, our duty is to become as great in personality (also, rich, healthy and beloved) as possible in order that they may see and desire to do likewise. It is our duty to make ourselves great (likewise, rich, healthy, and beloved) for their sakes, so that we may help prepare the world that the next generation shall have better conditions for thought."

- excerpted from Chapter 20 ("Serving GOD")