Something I found...

[Charean]

HOW TO BE EFFORTLESSLY PROSPEROUS

To be prosperous without effort, we must first decide to make peace our ultimate goal. To be in peace, we must know that our only function in life is to heal ourselves and others through our expressions of love and forgiveness. We do not have to get better jobs, second jobs, or work more hours. We do not need to add to our education, acquire additional degrees, make better contacts, or be around people who either lead us, follow us, or who are more successful. We need only to stay focused on our function of healing and our goal of peace as we participate in life through interaction with people in our relationships, jobs, and social activities.

One of the greatest benefits of studying Effortless Prosperity is that we become aware of how we project our own feelings of guilt and fear onto others. It is our ego that will always tell us we are guilty or afraid and that we do not deserve "effortless prosperity". Yet at the same time, ego will convince us that we need to get rid of our guilt—and we do this by projection. Once we understand this, we realize that everyone is our mirror. Whatever we see in others is what we have first seen inside ourselves. As we learn to see this as our own guilt being projected out and not theirs, we are able to forgive them. By loving and forgiving them, we are loving and forgiving ourselves and healing our own minds.

Every experience in life is an opportunity for us to do our function of healing. Though this may seem difficult at times, it is made easier when we practice and think about it as often as possible. Effortless Prosperity contains thirty easy and powerful lessons. These lessons have been prepared in such a manner that, when they are practiced, our egos are slowly pushed out of the way and Holy Spirit is allowed to enter. This provides us with all that we need to experience effortless prosperity. Also, these lessons have been designed to give us the vision to see that, through our ego-selves, we can do nothing. But with the help of Holy Spirit, our Higher Self, and our guides, we can achieve our ultimate goal of peace simply by doing our daily function of healing ourselves and others.

As we perform our function of healing, our lives will become peaceful and effortless. Everything around us will automatically fall into place and everything that we need will be provided for us (God knows what we need even before we ask). As long as we are vigilant for the light and we always choose peace, our life will be filled with effortless prosperity, effortless relationships, effortless health, and ultimately, effortless living.

Bijan
http://www.effortlessprosperity.com/index.html

[/)eathKiller]

>_> Not to go against God or anything...

but uhh... didn't Ziroc try to tell everyone to chill out with the Religeouse advertisment, that normally will lead to argument and all manners of violence we don't need around here...

[/)eathKiller]

thought that is true, in order for the world to benefit as a whole we should all observe it as an intertwined community where hate needs to be regected and good feelings and love should be spread like a plague until all of us can just GET ALONG... *insert some more lovy-dovey hippie stuff here* and through that we can all understand the world around us better, *holds his fingers together in the shape of a B* "Bliss, man!"

[khazadman]

bah!humbug!

[Charean]

I was not aware this was of a religious vein... more of a philosophy of living.

Didn't mean to offend.

[dizzy]

dont worry not offended it is philosphy,
has RudeDawg read this?

[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by dizzy: dont worry not offended it is philosphy, has RudeDawg read this?

I have, Dizzy. (You do know that Charaen and i live together, don't you? That's her in the link in my sig. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] )

I'm not a big fan of Bijan's writings, but I do agree with some of his stuff.

Bijan believes...we project our own feelings of guilt and fear onto others. < snip > Yet at the same time, ego will convince us that we need to get rid of our guilt—and we do this by projection. Once we understand this, we realize that everyone is our mirror. Whatever we see in others is what we have first seen inside ourselves. As we learn to see this as our own guilt being projected out and not theirs, we are able to forgive them. By loving and forgiving them, we are loving and forgiving ourselves and healing our own minds.

I agree with this. I also believe it explains a major reason we argue with others so often. Many times, we believe others will act the way we would in a situation, so we preconceive their actions, and immediately prepare our response. [img]graemlins/firedevil.gif[/img] The anger we feel is there before the other person has had a chance to say anything.
I also agree that...

...we must first decide to make peace our ultimate goal.

I think a lot of cases of depression, anxiety, fear, and pain come from the lack of inner peace in our lives.

The difference is, I think that we need to work towards inner peace, that we need to align our actions with our beliefs in order to have a credible right to it.

Besides that, I don't believe that prosperity is "effortless". I believe it takes work, a good attitude, and a lot of growth.

[dizzy]

i thought oyu guys did, and I know you are going to be doing the help change your life threads here. [img]smile.gif[/img] looking forward to more.

[Azred]

Charean, you need not apologize to nay-sayers. Those are your feelings; if someone is too closed-minded to try and understand them then why waste time even responding?
Yes, that is probably harsh on my part, but I never claimed to be perfect. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]
At least someone is working to make the world around them a little better....

Personally, I am working on my Zen collection. Zen isn't nearly as hard as many people think. [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img]

[Althalon the Traveler]

The bottom line is, that there will always be the good and the bad, because thats what humanity is. An emotion or attitude can only exist with its opposite, otherwise how would we know the diffrence? Theres always gonna be optimists and pessimists out there, people who want the world to be all nice to each other , and others who would rather that everyone would just shut up and die. But thats life. no point in wasting any sleep on it.

Thats why its so much more gratifing to feel "inner peace" or whatever you want to call it after a long period of unpleasentness, people who work there ass's off all day will know what im talking about, cause when you get home and you finally have time to relax, it feels about a million times better than if your somebody whos unemployed and just sits around slacking. ( not to offend somebody who cant find a job, thats diffrent!)

[ 07-10-2002, 12:27 AM: Message edited by: Althalon the Traveler ]