Much of my social conditioning has come from a perspective of scarcity and lack. I grew up with the beatitudes as a kind of wish list. reasoning from Einstein’s theory that you cannot solve any problem from the same level as its source, there was seemingly no way I could be set free from my situation. Any action taken from a plce of scarcity cannot be productive.

I was fifty years old when I chanced upon books about abundance. One of my earliest books that awakened me to a positive and glrious world was Gary Quinn’s “Living in the Zone”. It reminded me convincingly that as a child of God the world was mine. I felt cheated; all the years of compliance within a religion that taught that man was created to the image and likeness of God yet limited me to a life of sacrifice and deprivation.

Eventually in Singapore I discovered the books of Esther and Jerry Hicks. Their statement of empowerment was:
Control over the way you feel – over your response to situations is not only the key to your consistent happiness but to everything you desire as well.
Moreover they continued: only when you are willing to find a thought, any thought that brings you a feeling of relief can you begin your trek up the emotional scale in the direction of love and appreciation that represents who you really are.