Spirituality and success (is there a connection?)

Spirituality is important to my success, it allows me to think outside the confines of traditional thinking and assures me that I have all the power from within to manifest my desires.

What if the essence of spirituality could be boiled down to this:

Do unto others as you'd have others do unto you.

That would be a spiritual concept and one that would also be perfect for your behavior in business and all relationships with others.

So, yes. There is a connection.

I think there is a "spiritual" connection between everything, as all things in the universe are connected. Kind of like the butterfly effect.

how to answer this .. there are a lot of "successfull people very very successful people who are spirtually empty.. and they use money bigger houses ..and a long list of iligal drugs and prescription drugs ..

there are a long list of very spirtual people who view money as dirty and evil and a corrupting force .. while they still work hard for it teach and do what they can to obtain it ..

we all have our paths and if you find your way to the greater part of yourself and it drives you forward to live with great purpose .. then that is the only real definition of success ..

In my view there is no need to give up money or give up wanting stuff as we are here to have a rich and joyous physical experience once we become spiritualy driven ..

the more spirtual grounded i become the more i want to experience the best this life has to offer ..the broke-ness and lack in my life has been to get spiritually grounded .. can i be happy with almost nothing can i feel good despite a list of reasons not to ...

but i have had my fill of lack and broke-ness ..as now my mind fills with ways to live the life i want to live and make money in the process ..

i say broke-ness instead of poverty .. as i have always had a car.. a roof over my head and plenty to eat.. so i have been broke not poor

For me the connection is very obvious: We relate to things, people, circumstances, etc.

How we relate to such things (whether in or out of business) are based on our thoughts/feelings, and therefore the Law of Attraction is at work. Our perception of ourselves and our reality will affect the way we relate to others.

Like if you believe the world is a dangerous place, you will perceive more danger. It will literally mold your outlook on life. If you believe the world is a great place to do business, that will allow you to see great opportunities.

While I may sound like I'm talking about mindset, it goes much deeper: Mindset really point towards consciousness. With a prosperity consciousness, you will almost automatically generate wealth, just as a poverty consciousness automatically produces more lack and limitation.

Developing a prosperity consciousness comes down to believing in yourself (or more like realizing how powerful you really are as a spiritual being), believing in a higher power (be it God, Source, Universe, the quantum field, etc), and trusting that higher power (i.e. intuition). And a good number of successful businessmen tend to agree that trusting your intuition is a good idea.

As you can guess, I take What the Bleep Do We Know literally. I am convinced that we are consciously creating our reality with our thoughts.

So how does one apply such teachings? I recommend reading this thread I posted for practical things you can do:

http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...ough-year.html

Yes, I believe there is a connection. Many of the most successful business persons and leaders in the U.S., to cite one example, are extremely religious: Mormons, Evangalicals, Hindus, etc. I think there is a quote from a Hindu saint along the lines of "Seek inner treasure first, and outer treasure will always follow".

I used to be a staunch atheist. Although I still cringe at religious dogma, I feel that atheism is an emotionally draining belief system that makes it harder to be successful and happy in life.