Wealth Creating and Enlightenment - Vice or Virtue
A judgmental few have even "strongly commented" that there exists a high level of hypocrisy between the two apparent conflicting subjects.
Yet I make no apologies.
To a starving child, is there any benefit in offering a copy of a Bible, a Koran or other holy book? To the countless millions out there in this world who have trouble paying their rent and food bills etc, is there any point preaching that because enlightenment is at hand, one does not need to be worried or concerned? As a young man I "owned" dozens of apartments and houses.
One in particular was rented by a handsome young twenty two year old bank officer.
He had absolutely everything to live for.
Yet one Monday morning, I received a call from the bank security asking that I arrange to have the apartment opened.
The young bank officer neither arrived to work that morning nor informed the bank that he would be absent.
This scenario triggered a security alert in the bank.
I later learnt that my tenant had shot himself dead with a spear gun.
The reason? He was two payments in arrears on his car payments to the bank! At the time I was devastated.
I knew that with a few hours of mentoring, I could not only have taught him how to be wealthy but also shown him why he never needs to fear poverty again.
Yet I was only three years older than he was and at such a young age, I did not think I had the right to teach anyone anything about life's experiences.
Thirty years later I wrote The Secrets Of Wealth Creation Revealed.
Upon release, most of Australia's libraries purchased copies, then the Australian and New Zealand book stores, then amazingly the book went through the major banks and I found myself being invited to interstate Head Offices.
Finally the book took off world wide on the internet.
It has been the highest honor of my life to know that thousands of peoples' lives worldwide have been dramatically turned around because of both The Secrets Of Wealth Creation Revealed and the various wealth creation articles that I have written.
From small villages in Africa, to Bangladesh to the mighty USA - the book has been used as a teaching aid in seminars and classes.
So I offer no apologies and see no conflict between "detached" wealth creating and the spiritual pathways.
One inevitably so often leads to the other as financial security affords the time to ponder the higher secrets of existence.
Love always Charles Goodwin