To know your own happiness, and that it is now, nor to leave it to after-reflection to look back upon the preferable past with a heavy and self-accusing heart, that you did not choose it when you might have chosen it, is all that is necessary to complete your felicity. Without being conscious of what money means to us emotionally, we are at the effect of it. We are being run by our unconscious beliefs about money and all of its associated programs. It is like the billionaire who keeps piling up more billions. There never seems to be enough. Why is that? It is because he has never stopped to look at what money really means to him. If we obsessively chase after money or other symbols of wealthy, it is because our inner self-worth is so small that it takes a huge amount of money to compensate for it. The inner insecurity I so extensive that no amount of money can overcome it. It might be said that the smaller we feel inside, the greater amount of power, money, and glamour must be accumulated in order to try and compensate for it. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

Happiness he could enjoy only by concealing it. Money and resources in society are scarce. And some people are lucky enough to have the opportunity to work hard and make a lot of money, and they use their luck to earn money so that they can provide for their future and generate generational wealth for their family so they will be secure. When people grow up without worrying about where their next meal is going to come from, how they are going to pay for car repairs or rent, then they can have the freedom in life to do things that they love and find out what truly inspires them. Some others work tirelessly and invest more time than the average person in to generating income and never seem to get ahead in life, but they keep trying because failure and giving up is not an option. One a certain level, we may even appear to be indifferent to money. Once we have the formula for gold, we do not need to carry a bag of it on our shoulder with all of its attendant worries and anxieties. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

The problem with excessive accumulation of money, of course, is the constant fear of losing it. It is tragi-comic to watch someone who is worth $50 million dollars practically have a nervous breakdown because, through a business oversight, he lost $10 million dollars. The man was actually in a panic. Emotionally, he was frightened that he would not be able to survive on the planet with only $40 million dollars. The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level. With this inner poverty, there is the whole attitude of selfishness or its correlates of vanity and false pride. It is very common for people who use the letting go technique suddenly to come into abundance. Struggling actors now have starring roles in Hollywood. A playwright on the edge of poverty becomes the producer of a blockbuster Broadway hit. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

Paradoxically, some people have grown so nonchalant about money that they have chosen to get rid of a lot of money and live much simpler life. They are no longer interested in money; they have mastery over it. The inner satisfaction that they have sought by means of money are now satisfied directly, so that inner happiness is independent of outer wealth. In this state of inner freedom, one is independent of the outer World and no longer at the effect of it. This is because one transcends that which one has mastered. The things we try to avoid and fight against—tribulation, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that produce abundant joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation but because of it. The undiminished radiance, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anything passing but on the Love of God that nothing can change. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

Will men prefer the happiness of others at the neglect of their own? Why is our happiness sometimes so fragile that commonplace occurrences can ruin the whole day? Well, as a result of negative feelings, thoughts, and attitudes, together with the constant judgment and criticism of other people, we often feel separated from others. Because of this feeling of inner aloneness and separation, relationships take on the form of attachments, with all the fear, anger, and jealousy that accompany any threat to those attachments. The inner negativity results in such commonly held beliefs as, “You are born alone and you pass away alone.” Nothing, in fact, is father from the truth. As recent books on near-death experiences reveal, it is during life that one often feels alone, and at the moment of passing away, there is an absolute feeling of oneness and connectedness. If we cannot be as happy as we wish, we should rejoice in the happiness we can have. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5