Your Automatic Right to be Rich

Copyright © 2006 Shannon Baldwin Wallace Wattles Online http://www.WallaceWattlesOnline.com

It's a fact that you cannot possibly live a really complete and successful life unless you are rich. You can't achieve your greatest potential in talent or soul development unless you have plenty of money. And to unfold your soul and to develop talent you must have many things to use and you cannot have these things unless you have money to buy them with.

You develop in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and our society is structured so that you must have money in order to get these things. And so, the basis of all advancement for your life must be the science of getting rich.

"The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining." --- Wallace D. Wattles

Your right to life means your right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things that are needed for your fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment - in other words, your automatic right to be rich.

We're not going to talk about riches in a figurative way - to be really rich doesn't mean to be satisfied or content with a little. You shouldn't be satisfied with a little if you're capable of using and enjoying more.

The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and you should have all the things that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life - to be content with less is a crime.

Life today has advanced so far, and become so complex, that the average person requires a great amount of money in order to live in a way that even approaches completeness.

You naturally want to be all that you are capable of being; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in your human nature; you can't help wanting to be all that you can be.

To succeed in life you must be what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich then becomes the most important of all knowledge.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for wealth is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life and that desire is praise worthy. Anyone who doesn't want to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who doesn't wish to have enough money to buy all they want is abnormal.

"There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three--body, mind, or soul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul." --- Wallace D. Wattles

I'm sure you're acquainted with the consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that we can give through body, mind, and soul.

Whatever you say, you can't be really happy or satisfied unless your body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of your mind and soul.

Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

You cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without freedom from excessive work. Rest and recreation are also a necessary part of your physical life.

You cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.

To live fully in mind you must have intellectual recreation, and you should surround yourself with all the objects of art and beauty you are capable of using and appreciating.

To live fully in soul, you must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.

Your highest happiness is found in the giving of things to the ones you love - love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.

If you have nothing to give you cannot fill your place as a wife or husband, as a citizen, or as a person. It's in the use of material things that you find full life for your body, develop your mind, and unfold your soul.

"It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies." --- Wallace D. Wattles

Shannon Baldwin helps people make positive changes in their lives quickly through the timeless wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles. Read more about Wallace and his writings at: http://www.WallaceWattlesOnline.com