Hi Jeanne,
Thanks for your lovely message.
I agree very much with what you are saying about compassion and prosperity. As you say, everything is cause and effect, whether immediate or longer term. I suppose most importantly, in a wider view, where there are no egos and no real separation, then there is no real difference between "you" and "me" anyway. To feel compassion and generosity towards others is therefore to feel compassion and generosity towards the depths of your own being, of "Being" in fact; depths which go beyond limited, selfish impulses and instead represent the full breadth and complexity of the whole. When in touch with that holistic reality, how could there be such thing as "lack"? How could there ever be anything but prosperity? Surely every need would already co-exist with its own fulfilment? Every cause would co-exist with its own effect, each effect with its own cause etc. etc. etc.? Is the path of true prosperity nothing other than a path of reconnection?
I suppose when we develop compassionate minds and introduce ways of living and relating to each other which embody this, we are no doubt beginning to put into practice a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of how we are all connected, whether we actually experience this consciously or not.
When in touch with integrity and wholeness, divisions become absorbed - laws of attraction and repulsion/prosperity and scarcity etc etc. merely represent wave movements within a vast ocean. Meanwhile, we begin to grow in the awareness, in the deep realisation that we ARE ocean, and can finally appreciate the wave movements for what they are together with a firm knowledge also of what they are not.
best wishes
Ingrid
