Of Riches in Store by Both the Rich and the Poor
Here I will mention three things that I love. Chinese food, Japanese food, and fortune cookies. I sometimes go to the Chinese Buffet with sushi bar, and after enjoying the food, mainly the sushi, which I eat the most of, I look forward to the fortune cookie you get at the end. Sometimes they are amusing or interesting when they predict something that really has occurred to you (which is coincidence of course), or which does apply to your life, personality, or goals, etc. But the reason why I enjoy fortune cookies is because sometimes they give me ideas for concepts to ponder, develop, and write about. That is why I often save my tiny paper fortunes, because they inspire ideas like the one you are about to read.
One night I had gone out for sushi. My name is Ron and I am a sushiholic. I just can’t get enough of it. But enough about that. This entry is about philosophy, not sushi. And this philosophy I am about to discuss was inspired by a profound statement that came out of a simple fortune cookie. So I opened my fortune cookie and what did it say? It said, “Wealth belongs to those who create it.”
Of course it does. That’s why the wealthy get wealthier and the poor stay poor.
Like Micheal Corleone said in Godfather 2, “This contempt for money is just another trick of the rich to keep the poor without.”
But is wealth only about money? One can have a wealth of knowledge, of imagination, of creativity, of memories, of love, of friends. There are those who give of themselves to others selflessly; who have a wealth of kindness and com passions, a wealth donated in abundance. There are those who have a wealth of joy and inner peace. All of the above have wealth in life, and wealth in soul.
May you create such wealth. In every day. In every way.
What if Blue Was All that We Knew?
“We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.” –Lindsey Brigman, The Abyss
I want to talk to you about the world and how we see it. Imagine you are wearing blue lenses permanently attached over your eyes, fastened there right after birth. You have had these blue lenses over your eyes 24/7, every day of your life. Now ponder this: By what color do you see the world? Blue? No.
How do you understand what blue is if it is the only color that you see? There are no other colors to differentiate the blue from other colors of the light spectrum, so though blue is all that you see, you do not see it as blue. You see it as reality; the only color you’ve ever seen, the only reality you’ve ever known.
People may tell you, or you’ve read it yourself, that grass is green, snow is white, and bananas are yellow. But to you, everything is blue. But not blue, “reality”. It is too difficult to see past those lenses, to see the world as it really is. Not just the world outside, but also the world inside as well; the world of perception that is within you.
Then one day, somehow, the lenses are removed, and you see for the first time the colors of the world, and the world as it really is, undistorted by the hindrance of the blue lenses.
But yet for some people, for many people, for most people, taking off the blue lenses is not only difficult, but near impossible to even imagine. If only we could see the world in all of its colors, and enjoy a life with such color and beauty rather than through the blues.
We need to experience life through the entire color spectrum of unrestrained perception.
We need a new reality.
The Beauty of a Wealthy Life
I saved as I do most of my fortune cookie sayings, because they usually give me ideas of topics to explore. At first I had not seen any relevance from that saying to my life, other than my past as an artist; my creativity. Obviously I create beauty, if you could call it that, around me in my drawings of the past which I would like to return to doing, and in my immense Lego city, as well as the things that I write. But that isn't where I expected to go, as far as writing about hat, when I saved the fortune cookie saying. It's been on my desk till now in a small pile of paper slips, waiting for me to get an idea of what I would use it for.
Just a while ago, I thought about the entry I had posted about wealth and how it is created in more forms than money, by the people who are enriched and enrich others, and the message about beauty surrounding those who create it came to mind, in its relevance.
Wealth belongs to those who create it.
Beauty surrounds you because you create it.
They mean the same thing, easily intertwined with each other. I wrote about personal created wealth also being easily applied to wealths of talent and artistry, of love and compassion, of knowledge and experience, of friends and family, etc. Those things are all beautiful, and make life beautiful as well for those who create those wealths, and those who receive them and enhance them in themselves and in others. Such wealth is beautiful, and such beauty is wealth.
Wealth belongs to those who create it. -You create beauty.
Beauty surrounds you because you create it. -You create wealth.
May you create such beauty. In every day. In every way.