The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

The universe was invested not in Judy’s café, but in Judy’s enlightenment. Self-actualization involves detachment, not attachment to form; it acknowledges that form is limited, but spirit is not. And that is why we let go: we release our attachment to form so that universal substance can rearrange it. We pray, “Dear God, I surrender. I’ve tried to

The path of love might not lead to an immediate, short-term bundle of cash. But following the path of love leads to trust, to deeper relationships, and therefore to a greater probability of further good. Our internal abundance is ultimately the source of our external abundance.

We should never say yes or no to anything without reflection and contemplation. For the higher purpose of a situation is not always obvious, but it is always there.

A job is an exchange of energy in which you do a material task and someone provides money in exchange. A calling, however, is an organic field of energy that emerges from the deepest aspects of who you are. It is the fulfillment of what God has created you to be and do. Approaching your work as a job versus approaching it as a calling makes all the

The real you already has a God-given function, and the universe is set up to support it.

Take yourself, your work, and the God within you seriously—dedicate yourself daily, hourly, even moment by moment to love’s purposes—and the ego won’t have a chance. It knows a holy mind when it sees one. Dear God, I dedicate to You my talents and abilities. May they be used in a way that serves Your purposes. I surrender to You my business and fin

with every thought we are either host to God or hostage to the ego.

Many of us were taught as children that we shouldn’t express ourselves too much. We should pipe down in some way. Such children often become adults who are in the habit of cowering, as though we’re afraid of taking up too much space.

that I could absorb the loss.