Your ability to create and retain wealth is determined by your relationship with money. Like everything else, money is a form of energy which is attracted to the energy that is like itself. Your relationship with anything determines how much of that thing you are attracting or repelling. Money does not exist by itself but it is always attached with the energy of the person who relates with it. The same money can be experienced by different people in different ways according to the relationship they each have with it.

The secret of the universe is the power of persuasion. Persuasion is the one key to getting what you want, becoming rich and having success in anything. Without persuasion, nothing gets done. It is about persuading yourself and others. Persuasion is about moving consciousness, and when you can move consciousness, you can move anything. All persuasion is persuading to take action whether mental or physical action. All wealthy and successful people are masters of persuasion.

You may have had certain ideas against using persuasion because you think it is manipulation. But those are limiting beliefs that you have which are stopping you from success. The use of persuasion for wrongful purposes is manipulation, but the natural use of persuasion is for direction. People want to be directed in a way that makes them eager and comfortable with taking action to benefit themselves. We all naturally want to be led into doing what’s good for us by someone who can show us the way.

Loving money with awareness is knowing that money is a form of energy that represents well being and abundance. Well being and abundance is rightfully belonging to all nature and creation, and you can have as much of it as you want. As long as every part of nature works in harmony with each other, everything is sustained and multiplied. Energy is neither created nor destroyed but changes from one form to another. All energy comes from the sun which keeps changing form through nature.

Philanthropy literally means the ‘love of humanity’. However, we often associate the term with a one-dimensional flow of financial resources rather than the full awakening of our noblest virtues and capacities. Money is, of course, a key part of the philanthropic equation, but a more expanded vision allows us to approach philanthropy as a transformational relationship entered into for the benefit of all beings – including the person who chooses to give.

In this expanded vision, philanthropists intensely engage the human experiment, and are willing to channel their full resources towards human betterment. These resources might include anything from marketing skills, to a neighborhood network, to an inspiring speech. The true philanthropist sees each moment as an opportunity to gift the world with whatever assets he or she has available.