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Originally Posted by Joe Mc

'Blessed are the Poor' for they shall see the Kingdom of Heaven in this very life time. I know Davidsun will like that quote and perhaps agree with it ? There is immense posing and posturing going on, and if you were to take away most of these 'awakened' beings possessions they would crumble pretty fast, they are the ones that are posing not you. ...

I think whether you have more (i.e. are 'rich') or less (i.e. are 'poor') of this or that asset is not a decisive factor in the foregoing regard; its just that 'rich' (outwardly beautiful, powerful, talented, etc.) folks often get 'attached' to and so 'identify' with what they regard as being their 'possessions'. Hence the saying "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (the Aramaic word-symbol for 'rope' looks very much like and so was mistranslated as 'camel' by the way ). Also, by the way, many 'poor' people also get caught up in being hellishly 'jealous' of and so 'pining' for said 'possessions' - the statement of Jesus' which Joe quotes 'romanticizes' being 'poor' and so is (politically a tad) 'left'-leaning, IMO.

Here's more from the writing I mentioned having done which illuminates (I think) the issue at and:

"Every developing soul encounters this ‘problem’ many times over—it presents itself in a variety of guises as we proceed. The more intelligent and sensitive we become, the more subtly discriminating and refined the ways in which we conceive that we, others and situational circumstance would be more ideal. And, because we can then also more imaginatively envision and more inventively pursue their actualization, we become more prone to getting caught up (or ‘lost’) in yearning for and lusting after such [u]conceptions[/] of ‘greater’ goodness and, because it appears pale in contrast, to not appreciate and so not lovingly act to enhance what IS; in the extreme, to denigrate and disparage it as having no inherent goodness and value at all. …

The ‘solution’, in each and every case, lies in becoming aware of how fixation on particular ideals and derivative experience of disappointment and dissatisfaction cut us off from perceiving, relishing and creatively dealing with the exquisite ISness of Being and Becoming that is Ever-Present and Ever-Ongoing in ourselves, others and the world around us, and therefore diligently identifying and choosing to emotionally decathect from and transcend such personal fancies and aversions and associated conditioning. Only if and as we stop holding onto particular likes and dislikes and jettison negative attitudes deriving from consequent experience of disappointment and dissatisfaction do we rediscover and revive what was lost when we emerged from the simplicity of naiveté—the paradisiacal state enjoyed by Adam and Eve before they ‘fell’ from grace, in the Garden of Eden.

Many don’t make the grade when ‘tested’, however. Because they are mentally and emotionally fixated on pursuing and avoiding, respectively, personal fancies and aversions, and have become jaundiced by consequent suffering of disappointment and dissatisfaction, they fail to see, appreciate and make the most of things as they really are, and so don’t progress to a ‘higher’ level of experience and actualization. Though brilliant breakthroughs of Intelligence periodically reillumine and lead to full realization of the fact that each and every being is an expressive aspect of Creativity (THAT which has been referred to as God, championed as the one and only Absolute Good, and extolled as the Origin, Essence and Eternal Home of all BEING), only those who have developed sufficient understanding of and faith in the amplitude and adequacy of Life’s process to unambivalently embrace and constructively deal with the ‘world’ of their perception and experience, however deficient or terrible aspects of it may seem, are then able to cast aside and divest themselves of the veil of pejorative judgmentalism that otherwise entangles the human psyche in disappointment and dissatisfaction and causes it to become enmeshed in a state of angst and unhappiness.

Comprehending the fact that the power and vitality of Creativity are ubiquitous and eternally ongoing, and that they, others and everything that happens are integral features of Its glorious expression, they recognize their idealization and corresponding awfulization fantasies to be the delusional constructs that they really are, and choose to psychospiritually disengage from any judgment or ‘sense’ that any attribute or circumstance of Life is ‘not good enough’ or ‘too bad’ to accept and creatively deal with. With a transcendentally positive attitude, they embrace and dedicate themselves to augmenting the value and potential inherent in their and others’ being and circumstance, regardless of its form or state, past or present. In due course, this results in their breaking free of the deadly downward drag of Negativity and finding their way ‘back’—no longer naive as Adam and Eve were, but appreciatively aware of what they and those around them are and are part of—into blissful Life-communion. (If not so already, depending on how you ‘view’ Life and, consequently, choose to proceed, you might, become an illumined and, consequently, illuminating one of their number in relatively short order.)"