Have you ever read the famous story Acres of Diamonds? Do
you ever feel that it related to you?
A farmer hears tales of diamonds and begins dreaming of enormous
riches. He sells his farm and hikes off over the horizon, never to be heard
from again. People say those years later he died bankrupt, never having found
the diamonds he spent his life in the hunt for.
Meanwhile, the man who bought that farm found a large and
"interesting looking" stone in a stream that ran through the
property. He put the stone on his mantle where a visitor recognized the large
stone as a rough diamond.
It turned out to be the Hope Diamond, the biggest such stone
ever found. That stream bed was littered with diamonds, and the new owner
became amazingly affluent. No doubt he also lived happily ever after.
But doesn't something in that story set bizarrely with you?
What about the guy with the burning aspiration and the grand
vision? He ended up disillusioned and ruined, dying far from his family and
friends. Not a happy ending.
In the meantime, the guy who just wanted to do some farming
got all the riches. Make no error, the new owner already had money, or he could
not have bought the land. There's nothing in this story to make us think he was
dreaming about riches, vast or otherwise. No burning aspiration. But he got the
goodies.
Was this just another little hoax, courtesy of a naughty
Universe?
Or is it possible to get good things coming your way with
only mild desire -- maybe even a calm indifference?
Many motivating writers, including Napoleon Hill, have
assured us that a blazing desire is one of the fundamentals of acquiring wealth.
I've even said it myself, although I added the qualifier that the dominant
desire is not so much for the Universe. It's for you, to help you conquer and
battle past your own uncertainties and resistances.
But haven't you seen people who seem to coast into good
things, like the farmer who found the Hope Diamond? Achieving your dream
doesn't appear to have a lot to do with flaming desire.
Instead, it seems to be more a matter of what they can allow
themselves to have. Some people call this a sense of worthiness. It's essentially
the same thing. Either way, it's governed by who you think you are and what state
of affairs you accept as suitable for you.
In other words, it all starts from who you are in your own
mind.
