Many people have problems when they contemplate voluntary change. This is because they fear inconveniencing others–usually for the wrong reasons. Worrying about the results of disassociating themselves from the people and conditions holding them back, they may unwittingly seek an excuse to keep the status quo, and so, ignoring their true feelings and negating their desires, additional frustration and confusion is created for themselves by themselves. This is because they do not understand the virtue of selfishness, either pure or impure. Incorrectly used, selfishness is your enemy. When it is intelligently cultivated, selfishness is your best friend.

Pure selfishness is the giving of yourself and any aspect of yourself, with the sure knowledge that the equivalent good, or preferably better, returns to you without your having to wonder where it is going to come from. It brings all good things to you and continues to grow through new experiences while opening new areas of consciousness that you may never have been aware of. This includes money and love, the two things that everyone wants but many fear having because of insecurities as a result of negative sentiment and manipulative grace. Pure selfishness is an intelligent, logical, and realistic attitude to have.

Impure selfishness is stupid and debilitating. It is a form of being in love with yourself. Being in love with yourself is not to be confused with loving yourself. Being in love with yourself is demeaning and evidences a true lack of self-esteem. It is loaded with arrogance, conceit, and false pride, along with a general contempt for everyone and everything else. Impure selfishness destroys the good in your life whether you realize it or not. When you give something with impure selfishness, you give with a closed heart in the hope of receiving it back in like amount, perhaps from the source you gave it to. You secretly hope you will not be losing what you are giving away. Hope, incidentally, is based on wishful thinking and is a limitation of acceptance. People who give through impure motives are expecting the same thing to come back to them, and therefore limit their own good by not thinking in terms of better and more, regardless of appearances.

When you give in totality and completeness, there is no need to worry about losing anything. Knowing that all is returned in abundance and that the universe is not limited, anything and everything you could ever desire is available in larger amounts than can ever be conceived of or accepted. There is always more of everything-wherever it comes from. On the level of Universal Creativity, everything already exists and needs only to be accepted.

Nothing can be created that does not already exist. Things become tangible as you focus your mind on them. This has to do with perceiving the Universe as total and complete, irrespective of time and space, which is only based on your needs. This idea has nothing to do with illusion, allusion or delusion. It has to do with the perceived reality of personal acceptance of unlimited abundance. Give with pure selfishness and know that everything returns either equivalent to, or greater than the amount that went out. Self-Revealization Acceptance will help you develop pure selfishness.

Excerpts from Self-Revealization Acceptance, Your Divine Right to Live in Joy and Freedom

© SFKaufman 1993-2009