Feb 13 2024 27 mins 2
It is difficult to live in this world where it seems that everything revolves around money. It is important to remind ourselves that money is only representative of energy. This energy is not necessarily evil… It definitely encourages people to embrace separation as they hoard this treasure because of fear of lack. When in reality there is more to our lives than energy in the form of money.
It is known that after people have reached a certain level of having their basic needs met plus a little more leisure, increased money does not increase happiness. So then we must ask ourselves what does it mean to serve? Is it just about giving money away or are there more forms of service available.
Time, sympathy, honesty, love, wisdom. All of these things are valuable to ourselves and others. If we expand the scope of what it means to serve, we can come to a more balanced view of money. Yes sharing money is a form of service but so is sharing all the previously mentioned things. So when we set our intention to serve, you don’t have to limit your service to the money area. Give your time, give your heart and wisdom, give your sympathy, give an ear to listen to someone’s woes. These are all extremely valuable. Sometimes more so than money.
-L
Nov 24 1985
Hatonn:
There is that about money which is finite, in the heaviest illusory sense of that word. And indeed it does come through into the illusion as each entity pays its bills and ponders how to save, how to spend, and how to conduct one’s business, that there is nothing left over, that the riches that one has coming to one are not aplenty but are a subsistence which one may work with with the budget and the planning. Indeed, this institution of the spending of money is one of very many ways that lead to separation.
And yet let us look at other ways as well. Yes, it is true that there are those within our city close to your dwelling place who are hungry this day, who do not have appropriate clothing for the chilliness of your present climate, who have found themselves unable to enter themselves into the society with enough success to produce money.
And, my friends, this is something that is likely to be somewhat of a growing experience as times become more confused and the society less stable. One does not have to look far to find ways to share one’s money, for we shall tell you that there is a great liberation in the sharing of what in your illusion seems to be that which you need. It liberates an entity which is plunged into the illusion from the illusion, precisely insofar as the entity is giving great gifts with the desire to serve the one great Self that knows no separation. Yet there are many ways in which we plunge into the illusion, my friends, are there not? When is a smile stopped upon the face because an entity is plunged too far into an attitude of separation to be able to share joy with another? When is the young in experience shut off from the giver of that experience but when the giver of that experience is self-involved and feels that it would be too expensive to spend time in merely speaking?
You see in actuality, my friends, all those about you are cells of your body, living portions of your reality. To open one’s heart, whatever the need, when done consciously, is a polarizing action, whether it is by the giving of money, the giving of time, the giving of attention or the giving of sympathy, you have much to share with those about you. You have many appropriate greetings for yourself. You have much room for love. And yet, can you do this for yourself? We assure you that unless the will is engaged, your experience of true sharing shall inevitably be blunted! For it is not something that is done mechanically, but from the heart.
Therefore, as always, we assure you that the process of service to others begins within as you groom and season your own personal reality with a thirst and a desire to serve. It helps within your illusion if some process of analysis is added to the thirst for service, for each has prepared a way in which to walk to be of service and clues are all about you, yet without the continuing process of prayerful meditation and of a daily focusing on the search for the one great original Thought and the consciousness it provides, your ambition to be a pure part of the body and vehicle for the Creator will be emaciated. How we encourage you to continue in your meditations and prayers, and then we encourage you to open the eyes and see within each day, each experience, not only the good that can come from that but the clues towards your own centering and your own greatest depth of being.
Q’uo: Nov 13 2010
Set your intention to serve and you shall serve beyond your wildest dreams.
