"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
Poverty and lack are not real but are illusions, which through wisdom, creativity and innovation can be transformed into wealth and plenty.
What exactly did Einstein mean by the above quote and how does this apply to finance? Let's investigate... Albert Einstein did not believe that time exists in the way we perceive it. We view time in three-dimensions, past, present, and future. However, Einstein believed "time" was four-dimensional. He believed the universe was one enormous four-dimensional object, rather than one big three-dimensional object today and one tomorrow. Therefore, we comprehend life through experience, which is given form, by time. As Einstein said, “Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.”
Gevin Giorbran, the author of "Everything Forever," said this of Einstein. "Most everyone knows that Einstein proved that time is relative, not absolute as Newton claimed. With the proper technology, such as a very fast spaceship, one person can experience several days while another person simultaneously experiences only a few hours or minutes. The same two people can meet up again; one has experienced days or even years while the other has only experienced minutes. The person in the spaceship only needs to travel near to the speed of light. The faster they travel, the slower their time will pass relative to someone planted firmly on the Earth. If they were able to travel at the speed of light, their time would cease completely, and they would only exist trapped in timelessness..."
So, the finiteness of our mind has to break into bite size pieces the vastness of the universe into cycles of past, present, and future to digest it. Remember time (temporal, natural) sits inside the vastness of eternity (eternal, spiritual), where all things are all at once and live forever. Therefore all experience in the natural is subject to change, and in those experiences, the opposite experience is forever present.
In an earlier blog-post "Why Invest" we discussed the philosopher Heraclitus, who believe in a kind of "unity of opposites." He notes, “God is day night, winter summer, war peace, satiety hunger . . ." “As the same thing in us is living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old. For these things have changed around are those, and conversely, those having changed around are these.”
King Solomon of the "Old Testament" who is acknowledged for his supreme wisdom was cognizant of this truth of "unity of opposites." He stated, " In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him." I also recall a story located in the New Testament about Jesus and Judas. To paraphrase the Story, Judas confronts Jesus concerning a woman who was in the process of applying some very expensive (ointment) perfume to his feet. Judas, the traitor and treasurer (how ironic), confronts Jesus and states " why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor. Jesus rebukes him and says "... For the poor always ye have with you;" at first glance, this is a mean thing to say, but I believe Jesus understood the unity of opposites. He understood poverty would forever be present as well as wealth. In every win, there is a loss present, for every truth there is a lie present, for all wealth, poverty is forever present, for all good, evil is forever present. The "unity of opposites”, and the complexity of choice, I believe each chooses what he or she will have. It is your perception and state of consciousness. I have seen victory snatched from the jaws of defeat. I have seen wealth materialize out of enormous poverty. Sickness reconstituted into health, alchemy in every way.
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein
Your finances are subject to the same rules, the same laws. Poverty and wealth are illusion conjured from our prospectives or state of consciousness that overtake our reality.
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
—Alan Watts
Remember poverty and lack are not real but are illusions, which through wisdom, creativity and innovation can be transformed into wealth and plenty. We must forget the past, and future, all we have is the present and the power of choice. Change your consciousness, your perspective because the opposite is forever present. You choose.
By: Marcus A. Turner, LIMITLESS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC.