“Prevention is the best medicine, and it’s also the best form of health insurance: by investing in fresh, organically grown foods, we can prevent illness. Food is medicine as well. Chemical treatments for illnesses can harm us, which may make you wonder why they are promoted so heavily. To understand, ask yourself: Who is making money from sickness? Fear motivates us to agree to artificial solutions that do not actually heal us but increase our problems.

Illness is nothing to fear, for we are divine beings with all godlike qualities. In healing ourselves our challenge is to use what we have – our divine intelligence – to find out what will cure our illnesses, rather than give this power away to others who may not have our best interests in mind. Medical professionals who tell us that we are suffering from something incurable are really saying, “You will need to stay on medications that will only suppress the condition, for we don’t make any money if you are healed.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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“Craving distorts and destroys perception. Fears and desires haunt us. Samuel Johnson said, “The knowledge that he is to swing from a scaffold within a week wonderfully concentrates a man’s mind.” You blot out everything else and concentrate only on the fear, or desire, or craving. In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, for approval, appreciation, applause – for what they called success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality.

They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don’t realize that they don’t correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad. What is good in Washington might be considered bad in a Carthusian monastery. Success in a political circle might be considered failure in some other circles. These are conventions. But we treat them like realities, don’t we?”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness”

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“As you replace fear and doubt as your guides with loving and trusting awareness, you will find how much life has been providing you with your every need. Many times, you may have missed it because you were dwelling on something other than what you truly needed at that moment. And Life gives, moment-by-moment, step-by-step.

When you were afraid that you didn’t have enough money, life may have been showering you with opportunities for learning so that you could eventually earn a better income, or sending you people to help you with your difficulties. Life always gives what you need most now, but it’s always up to YOU to heed its call and accept it.”

Michael J. Tamura, in “You Are the Answer”

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“There are more than five billion people on this planet, and every day of the week each one needs, say, a hundred different things. There are trillions of demands that need satisfying. So, rather than looking at supply and demand from a position of insecurity and lack, you can see it from the other side of the coin. There’s a perpetual oversupply of demand, and if you can’t give people one thing imbued with an energy that shines like crazy, you can sure as hell find something else they’ll want. When you are selling energy, you are selling Light, so your possibilities are infinite. By concentrating on what people need, you become abundant.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Little Money Bible”

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“On the level of form, there is birth and death, creation and destruction, growth and dissolution, of seemingly separate forms. This is reflected everywhere: in the life cycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree, a flower; in the rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations; and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual.

There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you WILL suffer.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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