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So, we were meeting in committee. Our organization was in a slight financial crisis. Every year about that time, this finance committee met to examine the budget and our cash flow. Almost every year it was the same old story. We were slightly short of our budget needs and committee members were wringing their hands. They spouted a tale of woe and how there was never enough money. We certainly couldn’t ask our membership as a whole to contribute more. There was just not enough.

They bought into the idea that there is not enough to go around. That we would never complete our budget because people just didn’t have any more to give. When one thinks scarcity, that is exactly what one finds. Too many people are taught that there is not enough to go around. So you better get yours while the getting is good. Think lack and lack you shall have.

But now it was my turn to speak to the situation. I said, “We are dealing with an Unlimited Source. That Source is given many, many names. But no matter what you call It, It is still Boundless. But when anyone declares that there is poverty, poverty is the result. When a group (or an individual) declares abundance, there is bounty. This is because we are dealing with an Immeasurable Source.”

The funny thing is, I had to relate this every year to this very same committee. From a year ago, they had seemingly forgotten my words. When I had finished delivering my abundance speech, they invariably gave me incredulous looks. They did not believe it. What is more, when what I said proved out to be true in the process, they still forgot. It was as if they sometimes displayed group dementedness in reverse. That is, their long term memory was lacking while their short term memory was intact.

So, the committee reluctantly vowed they would try to raise the money. But they doubted that it could be done. However, it was accomplished year after year when they gave just the barest hint that “my” abundance theory might be correct.

As the chief fund raiser for the organization, it was my responsibility to see that funds got raised. The finance committee gave their reluctant approval of my efforts to raise money from an Unlimited Source. Which simply meant I could use the committee’s name on correspondence asking for more money. That way the committee members did not have to place themselves on the front line. If we raised the necessary money, they could claim credit. If we did not, they could say they were just going along with me out of good manners.

I said this applies to individuals as well as organizations. When a person believes and, therefore, lives like there is not enough to go around, what happens? They see lack everywhere and in everything. As a matter of fact, by their attitude they repel abundance. Abundance, as it were, cannot harmonize with these feelings of restricted flow. It is as if the harmonization that is intended by The Source bounces off the adverse vibrations of scarcity. As happens when two waves are headed toward each other as in a swimming pool. The two waves crashed into each other and rapidly disperse. Whereas two waves going in the same direction meet to travel together. The waves bring themselves into accord, so to speak.

The committee was always “cheerily surprised” to have met the budget and then some. When I depended upon the Illimitable Resource that is The Universe, there was always enough money. I convinced enough people in the organization that there was abundance. They found it in their hearts to respond as if there was more-than-enough.

You, as an individual, will be pleasantly surprised as well when you depend upon The Originator of The Universe. In that Source you will find everything you need. That Source is Boundless.

I invite you to claim your Free Instant Access to some of Dr. Bob’s Resources and a monthly newsletter: “The Force-Source-Resource.” You will find more about yourself and the meaning of your life. Just Click Here. Remember, one bit of information can give save you a lifetime of frustration.

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So, we were meeting in committee. Our organization was in a slight financial crisis. Every year about that time, this finance committee met to examine the budget and our cash flow. Almost every year it was the same old story. We were slightly short of our budget needs and committee members were wringing their hands. They spouted a tale of woe and how there was never enough money. We certainly couldn’t ask our membership as a whole to contribute more. There was just not enough.

They bought into the idea that there is not enough to go around. That we would never complete our budget because people just didn’t have any more to give. When one thinks scarcity, that is exactly what one finds. Too many people are taught that there is not enough to go around. So you better get yours while the getting is good. Think lack and lack you shall have.

But now it was my turn to speak to the situation. I said, “We are dealing with an Unlimited Source. That Source is given many, many names. But no matter what you call It, It is still Boundless. But when anyone declares that there is poverty, poverty is the result. When a group (or an individual) declares abundance, there is bounty. This is because we are dealing with an Immeasurable Source.”

The funny thing is, I had to relate this every year to this very same committee. From a year ago, they had seemingly forgotten my words. When I had finished delivering my abundance speech, they invariably gave me incredulous looks. They did not believe it. What is more, when what I said proved out to be true in the process, they still forgot. It was as if they sometimes displayed group dementedness in reverse. That is, their long term memory was lacking while their short term memory was intact.

So, the committee reluctantly vowed they would try to raise the money. But they doubted that it could be done. However, it was accomplished year after year when they gave just the barest hint that “my” abundance theory might be correct.

As the chief fund raiser for the organization, it was my responsibility to see that funds got raised. The finance committee gave their reluctant approval of my efforts to raise money from an Unlimited Source. Which simply meant I could use the committee’s name on correspondence asking for more money. That way the committee members did not have to place themselves on the front line. If we raised the necessary money, they could claim credit. If we did not, they could say they were just going along with me out of good manners.

I said this applies to individuals as well as organizations. When a person believes and, therefore, lives like there is not enough to go around, what happens? They see lack everywhere and in everything. As a matter of fact, by their attitude they repel abundance. Abundance, as it were, cannot harmonize with these feelings of restricted flow. It is as if the harmonization that is intended by The Source bounces off the adverse vibrations of scarcity. As happens when two waves are headed toward each other as in a swimming pool. The two waves crashed into each other and rapidly disperse. Whereas two waves going in the same direction meet to travel together. The waves bring themselves into accord, so to speak.

The committee was always “cheerily surprised” to have met the budget and then some. When I depended upon the Illimitable Resource that is The Universe, there was always enough money. I convinced enough people in the organization that there was abundance. They found it in their hearts to respond as if there was more-than-enough.

You, as an individual, will be pleasantly surprised as well when you depend upon The Originator of The Universe. In that Source you will find everything you need. That Source is Boundless.

I invite you to claim your Free Instant Access to some of Dr. Bob’s Resources and a monthly newsletter: “The Force-Source-Resource.” You will find more about yourself and the meaning of your life. Just Click Here. Remember, one bit of information can give save you a lifetime of frustration.

You mention God several times, and tie this concept into ‘the source’ which is understandable, but the essence of the question takes God out of the equation, due to its personal nature, unless a person feels their entire life is driven by a power higher than themselves.

But that’s a cop-out isn’t it? The question is asking an individual to step outside 2000 years of dogma fed to them from the pulpit, and answer the question for themselves.

The average person is lost without some sort of guide, and God fits nicely into this requirement. My blog and upcoming book attempts to put this power back into the hands (and mind) of the individual.

What is the meaning of life? It is the search for our inner self.

The Gnostics stated this concept very simply…”Know Thyself.”

Write On! Curtis” http://curtischappell.com/blog

Allow me to take these points one at a time. Many people never contemplate the meaning of life, true. However, there are many more who do. Witness my more than 38 years as a clergy wherein I found the single most asked question was some form of “What is the meaning of my life?” Beyond those decades however, is the constant raising of the question on Twitter. Of course, most folks will not want the philosophical answer. They want the simplest answer possible that they may understand it. Therefore, I say, with Aristotle, the Dalai Lama, Dr. Wayne Dyer, that the meaning of life is to be happy.

Then, when we enter the realm of quantum physics, we discover that it is the Universe’s desire to be in harmony. Harmony can be another term for happiness. Surely when someone is in harmony within themselves, they are happy.

Truly, I mention God several times in the blogpost in question. I believe that there is an Organizing Intelligence, a Cosmic Consciousness, behind, or all through, the Universe. But I am not alone in that thought. Even the great Buckminster Fuller said, “I know there is a God.”

Now, you might think that because I was a religionist during my full time career as a clergy, that I am still a religionist. Nothing could further from the truth. I believe, with those in the quantum physics who do, that there is a Cosmic Consciousness that Is the Universe. I do feel that everyone is propelled or energized, but not driven, by the Engine some name God. I do not believe in an entity that looks suspiciously like a human being with a long white beard who sits in the cosmos someplace and directs the traffic of the Universe. I do not believe that we are separate from this Source. I believe we all are part of It and It is part of all of us. And yes, I have stepped outside the dogma of 2,000 years and seen for myself. I believe that everyone is capable of making up their own mind. Yes, I believe that God is found within every individual human. And The Source can be contacted through quiet time, prayer, meditation, deep concentration or a combination of these and others as well.

It is when this connection, or contact, is made, that we humans find the thrumming harmony of the Universe – happiness in other words. Not through dogma but through devotion to being in conscious awareness of The Source. There is where we find the inner self. The inner self is totally free to determine how it will respond to The Source. The problem si that most people do not know that The Source can be freely and safely contacted. By “safely” I mean no demands or punishments will be visited upon one who wishes to be in connection.

I do encourage you, dear reader, to look up Curtis’s blog and book and see if what he has to say fits you. (I get no money for this suggestion.) http://curtischappell.com/blog I believe Curtis is right when he says that the search for meaning is the search for the inner self. But I believe the inner self is connected to The Source. And when that connection is consciously made, happiness is to be found.

There is one error that I feel needs correcting in Curtis’s comment. Sorry. The term “Know Thyself,” is much older than the Gnostics. If by Gnostics you mean those who flourished soon after Jesus of Nazareth and claimed to have special knowledge of God. This knowledge given only to those fully initiated into the following. “Know Thyself” was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi long before the Nazarene was with us.

I say to Curtis, returning the compliment, “Write on.”

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