Throughout my adult life, at one time or another, I have read various “success books.”
Perhaps one of my favorites is the classic, “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill.
Right now I’m reading a book titled, “The Abundance Book.” I like it. It’s a tiny little book, but sometimes books should be tiny. Just get to the point and skip the filler.
This book, and many books like it, get into the religious/spiritual aspect of wealth creation. This kind of book has always been hard for me, because my mother, being a church organist, was very cynical about religion generally. So I have been forced to come up with a workaround.
In order to focus my mind on causation and belief in infinite cosmic power, I’m using some terrestrial imagery. One example that immediately comes to mind is the Eiffel Tower. Now I realize that the Eiffel Tower is just a big pile of metal, but the first time I laid eyes on this thing, it was, for me, a truly spiritual experience.
Now certainly, the sheer fame of this physical object was part of that experience. Also the fact that I had come up with the courage to haul myself to Paris for a week was also part of it. But when I look at things like the Eiffel Tower, my mind goes beyond the physical object. I think about the extraordinary human imagination that created it. I also think about the emotional focus and courage and determination that it took to build the thing. Somebody had to climb up awfully high on what was then completely new/untried technology, and they had to work all day bolting that thing together. Remember, it’s not always 70 degrees and sunny in Paris. I assume they had to work in the rain and the wind and cold to get that thing built. So when you consider just how much resistance and difficulties had to be overcome to construct this thing, the mind reels. It seems infinite, at least to me. (By the way, with the exception of one worker clowning around on his day off, nobody died in building what was then the tallest man-made structure in the world.)
So as I ponder methods of training my mind to think in terms of infinite resources, I confess I’m probably cheating a little, but these physical manifestations of spiritual capability certainly inspire me to think of the infinite potential of the universe.
© Justin Locke
