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

Faith is like flying on instruments: it’s acting on the assumption that just because you can’t see a possibility at the moment doesn’t mean that it’s not there.

“The universe can organize itself. The embryo doesn’t need to figure out how to become a baby. Buds don’t have to figure out how to become blossoms. Nature has its plan figured out.

Yes, they were perpetrators, but I wasn’t a victim so much as a subconscious participant in some ugly dramas.

Our connection to the spiritual plane is the antidote to the ego’s insanity. It gives us a sense of wisdom, scale, and righteousness. It gives us confidence and power. It is the prayer that our work be used by God to make the world a better place.

I had a strong sense at the time that the money hadn’t really come directly from the book—that it had come through it, but not really from it. I felt as if the money was divine payment for something more than the book, particularly the charitable work I had been doing for years before, for no money at all. It was payment for how I had been trying t

Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

Your life has no less value if you’re not employed as the world defines it.

To help with the process of taking responsibility and forgiving yourself, consider writing a letter to God about each of the problems you wrote down. Come clean about where you yourself made a mistake, didn’t act in integrity, called forth fear-based responses by your own fear-based actions, and so forth. Allow your hand to keep writing, as He resp

You are empowered not because you have money, but because with that money you can help empower others. You’re not coming from a “get” mentality; you’re simply allowing the flow of universal energy to move through you and use you in a way that serves a greater good. Bless every dollar, and every dollar will then bless you.

Love always gives the loving response—but sometimes the loving response is “no.”