Astounding Wealth

But we don’t see it as wealth.

We in the Western world have been taught to value stuff as wealth.

And the more and bigger stuff, the more wealth.

But wealth is actually quite different.

For one thing, we all have it.

For another it exists as ideas first.

So, if we never listen to our ideas, we miss out on the first step to our wealth.

One of the things that lets us listen to ideas is all of our conveniences.

We don’t have to go to a well for water.

We have electricity available every day and all night.

We can sit quietly and listen for our ideas.

We have to practice the quiet, though, because of all the media noise and all the judgements in our own minds against ourselves.

But once we get started on our practice of quietness and deep listening, the ideas have a place to appear.

Then, they tell us the next step and the next, and the next.

And that is how our wealth begins.

© 2014 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com