Think and grow rich

So I’ve taken to reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I read half of the first chapter. The very first sentence of chapter one has jumped up at me as something very significant. “Truly, ‘thoughts are things,’ and powerful things at that when mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches…”

This is so clear. The call to think and grow rich is not passive. It’s not to think passively, but the think part is the ideation, acknowledging that thoughts and ideas are actual things, and that the next step is to actively grow rich, by which I feel it means to burn with desire to manifest and actualise into material reality these ideas.

There’s determination, passion, desire. These are the fuel that keeps a man to function as if it is impossible to fail in manifesting his goal.

There are stories I want to manifest into published books. I also want to manifest health in my body. I’ll commit to studying this book at my own pace and see if it will help me manifest goals.

My artist’s prayer and creed

I know that in one of the tasks, Julia Cameron invites us to write our own artist’s prayer. This one is mine, and I lift the words entirely from the Bible, from the Voice Bible translation. The shema I adapted here for myself.

Artist Prayer

Listen, Rico.

Jesus is the Eternal God.

Jesus is the One True God.

And you shall love Jesus with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. You shall love all whom Jesus loves as you love yourself.

Our Father in heaven,

let Your Name remain holy.

Bring about Your Kingdom.

Manifest Your Will here on earth as it is manifest in Heaven.

Give us each day that day’s bread—no more no less.

And forgive us our debts as we forgive those who owe us something.

Let us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Yours is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory for the Ages.

Jesus, let Your Kingdom be, and let it be powerful and glorious forever.

Holy Spirit, let me be Present with You. I love You. Amen.

Artist Creed

Before time itself was measured, the Voice was speaking.

The Voice was and is God.

This celestial Word remained ever present with the Creator;

His speech shaped the entire cosmos.

Immersed in the practice of creating,

all things that exist were birthed in Him.

His breath filled all things

with a living, breathing light—

A light that thrives in the depths of darkness,

blazes through murky bottoms.

It cannot and will not be quenched.

Having shared these, I don’t think I’ll have any problem using the word GOD during this round of TAW.