Spiritual Economics - The Success Syndrome

Eric Butterworth calls the restless drive for success "The Success Syndrome". It is a factor that is at once the key to success and the reason for much failure, because the tools that get us to the success are not the tools that will carry us forward to the next possibility. Many people succeed in getting to success, but are not convinced of their right to be there. This speaks to developing the consciousness of the thing. Success is not getting there; it's earning the right in consciousness to be there. We develop this through our practices, through practice. We do not receive what we want, we do not receive what we pray for, not even what we say we have faith in; we always receive what we expect. What is our work? How do we approach work? The delusive idea that men merely toil and work for the sake of preserving their bodies and procuring for themselves bread, houses, and clothing is degrading. It is not to be encouraged. The true origin of man's activity and creativeness lies in his increasing impulse to embody outside of himself the divine and spiritual elements within him. Gratitude releases a vital energy that draws to us opportunities, employment, and secure flow of substance. Everything begins to work in our lives in an orderly and creative way when we have a grateful heart. Our work can be a giving process. Let us not be trapped in the error of equating what we earn with what we do. Let our work, whatever it may involve, be an outworking of the creative flow engaged in through the sheer joy of fulfilling our Divine nature. Our Divine nature is to give.