The Richest Person

I am the richest person in the world, and not because I have the most money. You would not know it by looking at me. In fact, I have very little money to my name. I do not own a vehicle or a home and my teeth are in need of repair. That which my richness is made of cannot be bought, borrowed, or stolen. I had it a long time ago. I thought life had taken it away from me. Truth is you already have it too. I am the richest person in the world, though not the only one, what do I have that makes me so rich?

Peace

I love that my physical body has given me access to what I have spent my whole life searching for, which was peace. I now clearly see that it is my true nature prior to the disturbance of which the mind is seen. As I lay in my bed after the 4th surgery since March of 2011, I notice the disturbance trying to enter in.

I am worthless.

I need a job.

I should be taking care of my children.

I am a mother of three going through a divorce, and it appears that I am bound to my bed at least for a while, again.

I noticed I was peaceful and only a single thought could shadow it over. Peace is who I am.

Only a single thought of I should be taking care of my self or my children disturbs the peace and sends me into hell. I took care of my "SELF." I did not believe the thought and immediately... Peace.

Now I lay in bed available to take care of my children when they come to me.

I see that not all the riches of the world will ever give me what I truly desire. I already am it. I thought peace was dependent on the amount of money I had, on my body allowing me to do the things I wanted to do, on the right husband, on the perfect career, people being nice, or the world being what I thought it should be, what a fool I was. I am the richest women in the world.

Peace is the most valuable state of being, without it everything goes to hell.

I am the Keeper of the Peace. It is the most important job I can ever have. I stand at the gate day and night making certain that the most valuable state of being does not get disturbed. Where did I find this peace? Right here.

"Peace be with you"




Meditation: What is it that I want the most?  What do I want more than anything else in this world?


It might just be what these teachers were looking for too.

1. Eckhart Tolle	34. Joseph Alois Ratzinger	67. John Bradshaw
2. Dalai Lama	35. Krishna Das	68. Jeff Foster
3. Dr Wayne W. Dyer	36. Drunvalo Melchizedek	69. Patrick Holford
4. Thich Nhat Hanh	37. Sai Baba	70. Andrew Cohen
5. Deepak Chopra	38. Jack Kornfield	71. Vladimir Megre
6. Louise L. Hay	39. Pema Chödrön	72. Thomas Cleary
7. Paulo Coelho	40. T.K.V. Desikachar	73. Daniel Pinchbeck
8. Oprah Winfrey	41. Esther & Jerry Hicks	74. Jonathan Goldman
9. Ken Wilber	42. Dan Brown	75. Sonia Choquette
10. Rhonda Byrne	43. Z’ev Ben Shimon Halevi	76. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
11. James Redfield	44. Diana Cooper	77. Mother Meera
12. Neale Donald Walsch	45. Ram Dass	78. Barefoot Doctor
13. Doreen Virtue	46. Andrew Weil	79. Richard Bandler
14. Alejandro Jodorowsky	47. Satya Narayan Goenka	80. Robert Bly
15. Richard Bach	48. Jon Kabat-Zinn	81. Adyashanti
16. Alex Grey	49. Alan Moore	82. Sogyal Rinpoche
17. Byron Katie	50. Dan Millman	83. Li Hongzhi
18. Masaru Emoto	51. Bruce Lipton	84. Sri Bhagavan
19. Nelson Mandela	52. Peter Kingsley	85. Rupert Sheldrake
20. Bernie Siegel	53. Karen Armstrong	86. John & Caitlín Matthews
21. Caroline Myss	54. Judy Hall	87. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
22. Brian Weiss	55. Colin Wilson	88. Kenneth Grant*
23. Mantak Chia	56. Joscelyn Godwin	89. Stanislav Grof
24. John Gray	57. James Lovelock	90. James Hillman
25. Gregg Braden	58. Satish Kumar	91. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
26. Stephen R. Covey	59. Shakti Gawain	92. Stephen Levine
27. Marianne Williamson	60. Elaine Pagels	93. Candace Pert
28. Desmond Tutu	61. Kyozan Joshu Sasaki	94. Barbara Ann Brennan
29. Mata Amritanandamayi	62. Gary Zukav	95. Coleman Barks
30. Philip Berg	63. Erich von Däniken	96. Robert Thurman
31. Ervin Laszlo	64. David Deida	97. B.K.S Iyengar
32. Andrew Harvey	65. Oberto Airaudi ‘Falcon’	98. William Bloom
33. Don Miguel Ruiz	66. Stuart Wilde	99. Lynne McTaggart
(for full details read the 100 List in the Watkins Review #26)		100. Marion Woodman

 

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