The Rich Mentality, By HARRIET HALE RIX [best mobile ebook reader .TXT] 📗

weak water into rich wine?
Would you be poor or would you be rich? Would you be poor if you could take
two loaves and five fishes and feed five thousand Belgians today with all they
want and have much left over? Would you be poor or would you be rich? Be
sensible! Was Jesus Christ poor? Why he had the miracle working Mind--the
Mind that increases through rich thinking, rich knowledge. And so my Christ is
not a poor Christ. I wish I were as wealthy. What were a million dollars in your
hand to that power he possessed? Which would you take? Not one of you would
hesitate a second if you are sensible. You would be wealthy with that knowledge.
Paul says that whereas Christ was rich, he took upon himself poverty that we
might be rich. That is, he took upon himself the appearance of poverty and he
proved that having is not prosperity, but if one thinks richly he is indeed the
wealthiest of men.
If you are working consciously with the great law of God, you are inspired. Ask
yourself, “Am I inspired in the work I am doing? “
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Do I put enthusiasm into my work? Or am I working as a slave man, driven and
bound?” If the latter, heal yourself of these thoughts and become enthusiastic.
The rich mentality does not scorn to work or scorn any character of work. It loves
to work because inspired in all that it does. I said that no man could work for
money only. A man demonstrated this once by hiring a man for three dollars a
day just to take a brick up from a spot on one side of the street and place it in
another spot across the street and vice versa all day long. At first the man entered
into the job with clarity, but he soon grew weary, and the outcome was that he
threw up the job, refused to work at it and said he would rather starve than to
work one more day at such a terrible job as that. We are not here to work for
anything less than to unfold our God nature, our Divine Self, and this is not
possible when we concentrate on money alone. What is money? Why, you are
the creator and maker of money. You put into it all that makes it of value and
you can withdraw that and it is not worth any more than sand. God did not
make money valuable; to him there is no difference between a pebble and a
diamond.
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You must give if you would get; the man who forgets to give, forgets how to
receive. He closes the door of receptivity; he closes the door of life and is like a
lake which, unless opened at both ends, becomes stagnant. Many people are
planting disease, physical poverty and misery of all kinds through not
maintaining the other half of the law of Prosperity. They want to receive only but
the law is not a hemisphere, it is a sphere. It is only as you bring the two parts
together and recognize that giving and receiving should be equal, that you can
weld them into a unit and have the law work for you. “With what measure you
give, it shall be measured back to you.”
This mind that is the Rich Mentality never takes offense nor receives an insult.
Think about that-- it never receives an insult. It never feels hurt and is never
discouraged; it is never jealous. It is never angry because anger is poverty of
consciousness ; no one gets angry until he thinks he is inefficient or is conscious
of a sense of weakness.. The rich mentality never knows malice; resentment
never suggests itself to it. It is never doubtful of the Good and its possibilities. It
never listens to words of ill report and therefore never repeats them. It does not
gossip nor love iniqui-
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tous things because the rich mentality is LOVE. It has always words of praise for
all who come within its presence. It has no enemies, is not self-seeking and
knows no pride. “Let this mind be in you” and your body will become perfect,
enduring, strong and beautiful, and your affairs full of delight and plenty.
The rich mentality does not look for flaws, is not complaining; never worries,
frets nor fears; never anxious nor overcome; it never fights, resists, nor in
cowardice turns its back. Hate is unknown to it and death has no terrors, while
sickness is completely under its control. It is never sad nor gloomy; it never
dwells upon evil for five minutes; it has no doubt of the power of good: does not
condemn or judge, all because it is the Mind of God, the richest Mind in all
Being.
Let us be silent for a moment and entertain these statements. Let us relax and
open our hearts to the Greater Self, to the Self more abundant, to the One Self of
us which is not duality nor multiplicity nor division, but One Self, radiantly
beautiful and divine, the Self that is described only in deific terms.
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SILENCE
I am rich in God’s love.
I give my best to the world and the best the world has comes back to me.
I am Prosperity. I am Success. God made me so.
I claim my own freely and fearlessly.
My Prosperity is based upon the true foundation, therefore is changeless, is
GOD, and the Spirit, overshadowing and indwelling, my one and everlasting
good. Amen!
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Publication Date: 07-09-2009

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