A Happy Pocket Full of Money _ It's Not About Money!

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If one thing that all the religions, that all the philosophers, and that all the great saints teach is that we are the experiencing what we are thinking i.e. the cause of our predicament is no one but ourselves. We are the master of our fate, and we are the captain of our soul. No one ever can dictate us on how to feel, how to act, and how to live. However, we find it difficult to comprehend this basic nature of our being and we get involve in imitating the things people in our surrounding are doing. At the same time, we desire for different result – if we are doing what others are doing, how can we get the different result? Isn’t it funny to even wish for a different result by following the same pattern that everyone is following?

David Cameron Gikandi in his book A Happy Pocket Full of Money has tried to provide answers to these questions in great details. Not only he has expressed his opinions and experiences, he has also backed them up by including the philosophies of spirituality, and quantum physics. Personally, I loved reading this book and I am going to re – read the book multiple times. Steve Jobs had read the book Autobiography of Yogi the dozens of times, and I am going to make the same habit to get the every ounce of juice out of the book that Gikandi has written.

I’ve read dozens of books on self-help genre, and no book can match the depth that this book has reached. It has reached to the very core of the universe, and how it works. He has written the book in a manner that he, himself, has reached the enlightment like the saints have reached. Written in a very simple language with compelling arguments, it is a gift to all of us who are trying to understand our universe, and the reason why we don’t get what we want. If we all are the extension of THE ONE i.e. GOD then why it is difficult for some of us to achieve the end means and why some of us are living in all the luxuries of the world? You must read the book for yourself to find the answers to this question.

However, the book is not the answer to all of our questions that we might have related to our predicament and spirituality. He, himself, has mentioned that it needs multiple other books to go in great depth about the spirituality. Hence, if anyone is looking for a book that teaches us various aspect of spirituality – don’t read the book. It also doesn’t provide on how to manual for implementing the ideas that he has succinctly put in his book. Of course, he had provided some hints; however, it is up to us to devise ways to implement the ideas as per our environment and the state.

…….to put it in another way, for every $100 or its equivalent in any other currency, only about $4 exists as printed-paper notes or coins, while the remaining $96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in banks and businesses and other entities. The only reason this system does not collapse is that we all believe in it…..

……one of the benefits of understanding the very basics of quantum physics (and the basics is all you need to understand) is that you finally see clearly how powerful concepts such as faith and right thinking work, among other things. This seeing and understanding, this knowing, enables you to have full confidence, eliminate doubt, create your reality consciously, powerfully and beautifully, and in many ways become more powerful……

…..energy is the sub-atomic particles that in turn make up atoms and finally matter. This energy exists as waves spread out over space and time. Only when you exercise observation do these waves become particles localized as a space-time event, a particle at a particular ‘time’ and ‘place’.  As soon as you withdraw observation, they become a wave again…..

………quantum packets or particles are best defined as probabilities of existence. For example, say you have a quantum packet called Mr. X. Before you ask to speak to Mr. X, he will not exist as a person. He will exist as a potential person. Mr. X will be all over the world at the same time, with varying potentials to appear in person in Moscow, New York, Kabul, Tokyo, Sydney, Cape Town, or any other town in the world. Now, when you call his name, he will appear where you called him, and at that point the probability of him appearing in any other city will become zero. Then when you finish your conversation with him, he will vanish again and stop being a localized person, become spread out like a wave, and the probability of appearing anywhere in the world again takes place. That is how a quantum packet called Mr. X would behave. Keep in mind that everything in this universe is made up of quantum packets…….

………at the quantum level, it all looks like one large pool of energy ‘soup’, an ocean of energy, one that is always flowing, one that has different concentrations and essences at various points. Imagine an ocean with a warm spot, a turbulent spot, and so on. (The ocean represents the energy ‘soup’ and the spots represent various physical objects such as your body or a tree)……

…….everything that can possibly happen in the universe, everything that can possibly be created, the past, present and future, are all running all at the same ‘time’ in one huge field……

………quantum physics, our spirituality and our understanding of eternity all tell us that the only time that truly exists is Now, and the only place is Here. Here, and Now…….

……..Einstein once said that no matter how persistent the illusion of time may be, the illusion of past, present and future, it is still an illusion……..

…….if you wish for faster results, the right way to shorten time is raising your certainty, increasing the clarity of your imagination, being of one mind (do not keep changing your mind), concentrating, and most importantly, raise your awareness from the level of your conscious only to that of your conscious, subconscious and super conscious mind and self……

……there is nothing you can do in any other moment except Now. Try it. Do something yesterday or tomorrow right now. Impossible! You can only Be and Do Now. It is all Now. Even ‘tomorrow’ is happening Now, is Now…..

……surround yourself with images of things you like. Get brochures and magazines of vehicles, homes, places, things, bodies, sports and activities that you like. The clearer your images of your visions are the clearer and faster you achieve them……..

…….you experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience yourself, and that is how you grow…….

……speak to yourself and ask yourself your questions, expecting an answer. You will soon develop a knack of getting answers from within. They come as feelings, not words, but you can get what they mean, you can get the gist or the gestalt of them……

……have journals to record, track and refine them. Without goals, plans, images, and visions, you will either not go very far or not as far as you are capable of going….

……here is the greatest insight: you are merely an observer. Life gives unto life all on its own. In any case, it all exists. All you do is observe and experience. Try to understand this. You are an observer with a body to experience your observations. It is what you choose to observe and experience that determines what you observe and experience. It is all there for you, automatically. So choose many things, and you will see many things……

……doubt, confusion, fear, and worry partly have their roots in a person not knowing exactly what he or she wishes to be and have…..

…..you cannot blame Hitler as a victimizer of the world without blaming the world as a creator of victimization conditions……

…….you do not need to fulfill these conditions to get wealthy. But when you believe in conditions, then they will be there. There are a countless paths to wealth, and conditions are just one of those paths – it is your choice whether or not you wish to go through conditions. Even time, which looks like a condition, is not a condition. People think you need a lot of time and age to get wealthy, so it happens that way for them, but it does not have to be that way……

…….what is happening right now is the perfect manifestation of your previous intentions, thoughts, words, and actions. Preferring an alternative Now leads to delaying the achievement of your goals. Such preference is wanting, and wanting perpetuates a state of wanting…..

…..the most common cause of ‘failure’ is the lack of clear and focused goals and visualizations……

…….failure is success, it is the same thing but they are on different ends of that spectrum, the spectrum of achievement. It is just like hot and cold are different ends of the spectrum of temperature, or a thermometer. Failure and success are both different vibrations of the same thing….

…….each word carries with it thousands of years of meaning and instructions on how it will be carried out….

.....in the proportion and to the extent that you cause others to build their wealth, so will you build your wealth…..

……..develop a strong desire and persistence to give cheerfully and freely…..

….gratitude for all things in the past, present, and future works wonders….

….all you now need to recognize is that every moment, person, and thing was brought to you by your own choices, thoughts, actions, and states of being. You did it…..

….people attract what they are not what they want…..

…..consistency of purpose. Curiosity. Confidence. Courage. Cheer. Certainty of intention. This is all good stuff….

…the desires that you suppress become depressions, and that leads to even worse….

….there is an infinite source of supply. When you are not having what you would like, know that your thoughts are at fault, not the universe. Accept full responsibility honestly and make amendments. But never talk or think of lack or shortages, for in that thought is the cause of lack and shortages…..

…..unconditional love, acceptance, detachment, and tolerance – all these lead to happiness….

……there is an old saying that says ‘when you laugh, the world laughs with you, but when you cry, you cry alone’. Stop crying and start laughing……

….money has two primary uses. One is to allow us to exchange our gifts. The other is to allow us to experience wealth…..

….to the extent that you think of and believe in abundance, you shall have it….

……the promise of added capability that having money gives is what motivates people to actually put in effort. The promise of added capability is what creates this added capability…..

…..you assume that the game you are playing in was designed for your benefit, and you fail to see that it may have been designed for someone else’s benefit but at your expense. Most of all, you are playing a game that has been altered to slowly erode your sense of self-reliance and self-determination….

……nothing real can be threatened, and nothing that is unreal exists but as an illusion….

…..you are literally the creator, the created, and the creative process; the observer, the observed, and the observation…..

If I have to write in a sentence to describe this book, I will mention that it’s not about money at all as the title of the book suggests. It is about the universe, spirit, and the truth about us. Hence, I highly recommend all of you to go through this book once – for it will not harm you, but it might benefit you in some way.

Rating: 4.5/5