Friday, 29 December 2017

Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Security by Sarah Ban Breathnach





All quotes from Sarah's book

Fear is always a future-based phantom and a conscious choice.




When we're spiritually tuned in, everything is a clue pointing us in the right direction.




Health is the first wealth.




Worrying about money had squandered my most precious natural resources -- time, creative energy, and emotional resilience.




No matter whether you are rich or skint, the secret of financial security seems to be balancing your personal perceptions to life's daily portion.  It's never the amount of money that will save the day; it's the amount of fear that needs to be calmed to get through the day.  




Learning to consciously shift our own destructive energies to emotionally positive ones is how we learn self-preservation in the best sense. 




Worrying about money repels, rather than attracts prosperity.  Worrying about money shuts down our creativity and sends toxic signals -- fear, lack, deprivation, despair, anger, frustration -- which is exactly what you attract.  And when we're in this mood, it's very difficult to feel grateful. 




When cultural and economic change arrives, resilient people are versatile and find ways to reinvent themselves or repackage their experience into new careers. 




I have come to believe that if something scares me, it's probably a Divine prompt for me to go ahead, not run away, for this "teaching opportunity" is sent to heal me.




Anyone who says money doesn't matter never had to live without it.




Money.  Or your own natural energy field…. You are your own money. 




Anxiety feels the same as creativity before it ignites.




There are some occasions in life when the Universe gives us the opportunity to revisit how we are spending the most precious commodity we have of all: our time.  If we are not spending the majority of it doing what we love and being with the people we love, we're going to get a wake-up call that we can't ignore.




Often the lack of money pushes us where we really want to go, but didn't have the courage to go on our own.




Money solves so many problems, especially if you don't have any.  And if you do, money creates problematic situations you're meant to solve with your other precious natural resources -- time, creative energy, emotion, as well as money.  As soon as there is money available, we forget that.




When we make choices today, they will influence the tomorrow of a year form now, five years, a decade, or forever.




Every relationship we have in our lives is a reflection back to us of the relationship we have with ourselves, especially our relationship with money.




What's done and lost can be ransomed back with deliberation, compassion, and kindness.




While it's true that the past asks only to be remembered, that doesn't mean you need to entomb your regrets.




Making money is your ability to serve God in this world.  Try this affirmation, "Money is a blessing in my life and I share this blessing with others."