So the road to validation always must have a sticker price??
iON has mentioned that you can pay $1500 for a dress shirt (at say Tom Ford's exclusive shoppe in NYC)
or you might find the exact same shirt at Good Will for $1...
the SAME frickin shirt!
Is the "value" or "worth" of a person determined by what he "pays" for something?
If I buy the shirt for $1 and give the other $1499 to some worthy cause or use it to bring joy into the lives of others, does that make me "bad" or "less than"???
If the fastest path to MY joy lies in helping others, does that make me an outcast (or less than) those who choose to express their wealth in simply pleasing themselves (service to self vs service to others)with their "ME FIRST and screw everyone else" attitude?
I've seen people in that world and though you could call them many things.....I wouldn't necessarily call them "happy"!
Money doesn't buy happiness.
Some things you cannot put a price tag on, and I think it's sad that we judge others by what they HAVE rather than what or who they ARE.
I like Bashars definition of "abundance"-(saying that it does NOT have to depend on money)
he says that true abundance is being able to do what you want when you want and not worrying about keeping up with the jones or trying to impress anyone with superFIcIoussssnessssessss
For me personally , it's actually more "phun" manifesting via more creative and unconventional means
therein lies REAL magic!

I think that if you really want something and are meant to have it,
it will manifest or come to you somehow if you can "relax and allow" and get out of your own way
Life should be an adventure and should be fun-
what's NOT fun is being judged by nincompoops (not referring to anyone specifically here)
and snobs who think that if you can't afford to be in the right "country club" or that if you have to ask the price of something then you can't afford it and don't deserve to have it.....
and that you should just stay in the gutter w the rest of the "low-lifes" :-Q
I feel the same way about sanctimonious christians who believe that unless you're part of THEIR elite little flock, that you will NOT go to "heaven".
I've actually had family members tell me that they can't wait to go to heaven so they can look down on me "in the firery depths of HELL" and that they will just LAUGH! (!?!)
If THAT is their idea of heaven and their idea of "entertainment" (watching others suffer) why would I want to go THERE!?!?!?
(That would be "hell" for me!)
but that's just me
to each his OW(e)n
a NOM al iON