A question for you: do you grasp the true meaning of ‘infinity’ or ‘infinite’?

“The line stretches to infinity.”

“The world is full of infinite possibility.”

So what does the word mean according to the dictionary?

in·fi·nite /??nf?n?t/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-fuh-nit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective

–noun

infinite. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infinite (accessed: October 01, 2007).

But consider this as a mind excercise: you are out in the universe, floating. In each hand you hold a line. At a point a couple of feet in front of you, the lines cross. The one in your right hand points off to the left, the one in your left hand points off to the right.

Begin to bring the lines to parallel. The lines’ point of intersection moves farther and farther away from you as you twist your hands. Will the lines become uncrossed? They will not. The point of intersection will continue to move away from you, but if the lines never end, they can never uncross.

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All this goes to show that we really don’t have the ability to conceptualize the infiniteness of God (or Infinite Intelligence, or the Universal Mind, or whatever term you choose), or the infiniteness of possibility. We cannot comprehend the meaning of “All things are possible to him that believes.” All things. Everything. But everything doesn’t exist because God is infinite. The word everything implies a limit, every thing. But there are not limits.

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Okay, I’m drained. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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The following paragraphs are excerpted from chapter 16, “Some Cautions and Concluding Observations”, of The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles.

I held something of a discussion with Peter in the comment section of this post on Why the Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer. He tried to argue that economics and the station to which you were born in life, the circumstances you were born into, were the main determinant of what happens in your life. I’ll concede the point to a degree–but only because the circumstances of your upbringing influence what you are taught, what you learn on your own, the lessons you take from life as it progresses, even (or especially) your beliefs on the subjects of wealth and opportunity.

While the subject of the book is that there is an actual science of getting rich, certain steps that if you take them you become rich, the underlying premise is that a person is in control of their own life and that control is wielded by thoughts and actions.

So to begin, we will start at the end of the book, or almost the end. This chapter summarizes the main points in the book, beginning with the question of whether there is a ’science of getting rich’.

MANY people will scoff at the idea that there is an exact science of getting rich; holding the impression that the supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that social and governmental institutions must be changed before even any considerable number of people can acquire a competence.

But this is not true.

It is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in the Certain Way.

If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.

If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.  • Read the rest of this entry »