"The kind of success that usually passes for prosperity in this world is based on compromise—on having one thing but giving up another. It's success with side effects: You make a lot of money, but you give up time with your kids. Or you make even more money than that, but you're depressed because you lack serenity. Or you make oodles of money—you're practically swimming in the stuff—but you earn it by lying, cheating, stealing, and walking over a bridge built of human bodies (and you wonder why you don't sleep at night)."
"None of these situations, especially the last one, creates true prosperity—because true prosperity is a condition in which you have everything. You have all the money you could ever want, plus the time to be a little league coach and a roving photographer at children's birthday parties. You run a business that propels itself from one success to another, but you also have joyous connections with the people in your life—your friends, your employees, your colleagues. and even your business competitors."
"The secret is that true prosperity is really what each of us was put on earth to achieve. And that's the key word here: achieve. You achieve prosperity not because you're smart or lucky, or because you so ruthlessly pillage your competition, but because you followed the rules of the universe."
TRUE PROSPERITY
How To Have Everything
by:
Yehuda Berg
© 2005 Kabbalah Center International
Kabbalah Publishing
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