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Reading “Embarrassment of Riches” in the February issue: I believe your comment, “…really, really rich people — there are too many of you out there for your own good,” is a valid statement. However, as I sit with this notion and observe where my judgments and biases emerge, I think it’s important to highlight another point of view.
We look upon the rich as denying others their fair share. From this vantage point, we are holding hands with lack and limitation, which by nature deny creativity, “…the highest expression of spirituality” as Chopra defined it in your February issue. The excessively rich don’t contribute to poverty. Instead, their ability to create wealth can be a path out of poverty. As the metaphysics illustrated in What the Bleep or the laws of attraction defined in The Secret show, what we see is what we create. The ability to create wealth (not only financially, but wealth of love, happiness, health and spirit) is available to every person on the planet.
How do we move from some embodying this knowledge to all embodying it? Giving aid only facilitates the imbalance of wealth and power around the world. We must empower the disempowered with tools to create the world they desire. The world won’t become truly wealthy until each of us finds wealth within ourselves. Then perhaps the statement becomes: “Really, really rich people — there are not enough out there for our own good.”
—Matt Omo, via email
The above response can also be viewed at Whole Life Times:
http://wholelifetimes.com/2008/03/letters0803.html
