The Law of Infinite Expansion

Part 4 of 12

A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living

J Douglas Bottorff

As simple as it sounds, acknowledging the presence of this natural impulse to prosper proved to be a major spiritual breakthrough for me. This acknowledgment has helped me bring my spirituality from an abstract concept into a very real and familiar influence in my daily life. Too often, I think, our spirituality remains an abstraction, a vague image we carry in our heads, something we contemplate when we’re not busy dealing with the distractions of daily living. Our spirituality may, in fact, be such an abstraction to us that we believe we will have to study for years before we can understand it. This is simply not so.

Actually it is because this impulse is so near and so familiar that we don’t recognize it as the still small voice mentioned in the Bible.[1] Things that are this accessible and familiar to us, we reason, must not be the same things our favorite authors are writing about. The voice they speak of has to be something different than this expansive impulse we have felt for as long as we can remember.

This is the problem with applying familiar biblical and religious terms to various spiritual components. You may say, “I’ve never heard the still small voice of God, but I have felt the impulse to prosper.” Be conscious that you are not looking for something foreign to the natural guidance system you have already come to know. Every time you do anything with the intention of establishing greater freedom in your life, you are responding to your own innate wholeness, your spiritual essence, your native soul. Have you ever wondered why you desire such a life? Your impulse to prosper is nothing less than the Creative Life Force asserting itself, urging you on to a freer, more expanded level of expression. The key is to become conscious of this impulse, recognize it for what it is and learn to act on the guidance it is providing.


[1] 1Kings 19:12