| If you were to
stack only one million US$1 bills, it would weigh one ton and be 361
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The
material things have no money' value in themselves |
Money: An illusion, a shadow of something else...
Dear Caswell Forrest,
Easter can be a time of renewal, maybe these thoughts will
trigger a new perspective for you. Money is not real. Money is
merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange
value. It represents value. Money is the body' of value. It is the
physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves,
within us. Not within things' outside of us, but within us. For
without us, what can the value of a thing, such as a car, be to us?
Nothing, at least not to us. In other words, it is we, the
observers, that place value in things, but this value is really
value in us - we give value to the material things.
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 The material things have
no money' value in themselves - we give that to them. So, money is
the external physical representation of a particular section of our
internal value, within us, within you. That is why a house or a
block of shares valued at $1 million today can fall to a valuation
of half a million dollars tomorrow when fear is introduced into the
hearts of those involved. The fear kills a portion of the internal
values of the participants and that is reflected by the paper money,
the body' of value. Here is something else: physical paper money
does not even represent money in full. It cannot reasonably do that.
By some estimates (and this varies from nation to nation), only as
little as 4% of the money in the banks exists as paper cash. Imagine
how much cotton, linen, pulp, and metal the world would need so as
to make all the money everyone has in his or her bank accounts.
Imagine how much space it would take to store all this money in
paper form. If you were to stack only one million US$1 bills, it
would weigh one ton and be 361 ft high. Neither does money exist as
gold reserves any more. This is for exactly the same reason - we ran
out of the reasonable ability to keep a gold standard in the 1970s.
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The
only reason this system does not collapse is that we all
believe in it
So what does it
exist as, the money that we are always talking about? Well, it
is one massive illusion. It is all just numbers written on
paper and computer storage devices, and assigned to people and
entities such as companies and investments, or more
accurately, further records! To put it in another way, for
every $100 or its equivalent in any other currency, only about
$4 exists as printed-paper notes or coins, while the remaining
$96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in banks
and businesses and other entities. The only reason this system
does not collapse is that we all believe in it. As you will
soon see, it is very rare in a day that you should ever look
at money as you know it today - the cash, the bank accounts,
the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real
thing. Looking at the shadow, the physical money, is most of
the time very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances.
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Look, instead, at the value
within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this
value between people. Our internal value, is what creates money.
Money is the shadow of our internal value. It is not about
self-worth. Money only represents an aspect of that internal value
that pertains to wealth. It is available to all people equally and
can be developed by and within all people equally. Free to all. You
can choose to develop it or not develop it, or to exercise it or
not. At any time, you can change your choice, and nothing outside of
you can stop you. You may have forgotten it, but it is right there.
And the first step to that is to always remember that money is not
real; it is the shadow of something else. And on that note, I hope
for your many blessing on this Easter Day of Renewal!
Sincerely,
Caswell Forrest
www.klondikemarketing.com
email: cforrest@klondikemarketing.com
voice:
720-406-1177 Toll Free: 888-395-5438
web: http://www.klondikemarketing.com
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