Part 7 of 12
A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living
J Douglas Bottorff
Your evolutionary process, then, involves a major shift in the way you think about prosperity. You gradually move from the conclusionistic belief that things hold the power to make you happy to what I will call the evolutionistic approach. This is more a life is a journey attitude that says that the quality of experience you are really seeking in life must first be evolved from within. Remember that the conclusionistic formula, having equals being, says the more you have the happier you should be. The evolutionistic formula is exactly the opposite. It says that being equals having. Discover and live from your natural state of happiness. Be happy first and the conditions that make up a happy life will follow.
The quality of experience you are trying to derive from your material possessions already exists within the realm of your native soul. That you desire this quality of experience in the first place is evidence that your center of wholeness is naturally evolving, attempting to externalize through you that which is already fully involved at the deepest level of your being.
The author of the book of Revelation gave voice to this spiritual center when he wrote, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.”[1] Your native soul stands at the door of your consciousness, continually asserting its presence, which you consciously interpret as the natural desire for a more abundant life.
[1] Revelation 3:20