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874 You should interest yourself in the world’s becoming rich.

875 Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of; and bear in mind

876 that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the

877 creative method—not the competitive one.

878 Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.

879 Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming

880 rich; as those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration,

881 and begin to search for the way out.

882 Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not follow that

883 you are to be sordid or mean.

884 To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else.

885 On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over other men; but when

886 we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.

887 All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of service and lofty endeavor, comes by way

888 of getting rich; all is made possible by the use of things.

889 If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on your getting rich.

890 Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the means to live a care-free existence

891 and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health.

892 Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the competitive battle for existence;

893 and only those who are becoming rich on the plane of creative thought are free from the degrading

894 influences of competition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that love flourishes best

895 where there is refinement, a high level of thought, and freedom from corrupting influences; and these are to

896 be found only where riches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife or rivalry.

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