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Saudi Prince Buys an Airbus A 380: Thoughts on Abundance
By Nick Grimshawe
Everything is Relative.
When I look at my mortgage payment,
car payment and a few other expenses,
then look at my pay check I see scarcity.
When I look around my house and all the things
within it, I see abundance. Along comes a Saudi Prince, who plucks down over 300 million for the largest passenger jet in the world for his own personal use, and my mini SUV, a Ford Focus, shrinks into insignificance.
I sat in a restaurant this afternoon having coffee. From my vantage point by the window, I saw a parking lot full of cars, all different makes, years, and status. I see abundance, several million dollars of abundance. However, any one of the those owners, climbing back into their car, and wondering how to meet their next car payment, see scarcity.
A subsistence farmer in the horn of Africa, views my home and processions as if I where a Saudi Prince.
The Saudi Prince makes his money in oil, the price of which is driven by scarcity. Out of scarcity comes the Prince’s abundance. Oil is energy. Energy is the coin of the universe, and very abundant.
Do you see where I am going?
Everything is relative.
Abundance Arrives Out of Nothing
Many of you may not believe that statement. I ask you to close your eyes and create a sentence, a simple ordinary sentence. Let me see: I like ice cream. Where did that come from? Even when I wrote, “let me see,†I didn’t know what I would write. The words came out of the void, to jump fully formed, onto this page. What words did you string together?
I wrote notes for this article, but the substance comes to me as I write, through some magical process of creation. Creation is the act of materializing something from nothing.
All Art, Music, Technology, everything, materializes out of the void: Nothing, then abundance.
So where am I going with this?
Escaping the Relativity Trap
I give you part of the second verse of the Tao Te Ching from Wayne Dyer’s wonderful book,
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty,
Only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Abundance and Scarcity represent the same thing, depending only on viewpoint.
Instead of laying the abundance/scarcity coin flat on a surface so you can only see one side or the other, try balancing the coin up right so that you can see both sides with only a slight shift of your eyes. You could even spin in like a top, so that abundance then scarcity flash by one after the other, breaking the hold of the single “flat world viewâ€.
Also note as the coin stops spinning how it reverts to the “flat world view†requiring an effort on your part to spin the coin again.
Try it: spin the coin. Have some fun, and let me know about your own observation.
Nick
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Thank you for this.
When I started going to school my mother prayed for the $6 a week tuition. When I went on to high school she prayed for the $12 a week tuition. When I went to college she prayed but turned it completely over to God to take care of and He did.
She taught me by her actions that we can always get what we need starting with faith that God will somehow provide.