"The real 'haves' are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real 'have nots' are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor." - Eric Hoffer

I love affluence, abundance, the energy of wealth, the influx and flow of money, the supply and power of what money can bring.

What do you think when you read that?

Maybe you'd say, "Who doesn't love money? Everyone loves money."

There are others who will feel uncomfortable with an unfettered love of affluence.

Matthew 19:24 states, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' If this is part of how you were raised, it's possible that you believe loving money and wealth is greedy.

Not feeling worthy, issues of deserveability plague many people and our relationships to money can be very complicated, as can our desire to accumulate wealth.

Americans have a love-hate relationship with the richness of our culture. We revel in our position of prosperity and at the same time, some feel incredible guilt at the images the media shows us of the less fortunate.

It's complex.

In my way of thinking, money is an energy and by immersing ourselves in this energy, we attract more of it to us.

The universe hates a vacuum. What we want to do is literally expand our universes by creating vacuums in our lives in relation to money and wealth so that the universe can fill these vacuums with more of what we want and need.

Here's the deal with money:

Money is its own energy and it's a very specific, precise energy and you have to learn to get into the flow of money or else it will control you. I work all the time to stay in alignment with that and to make it even more prevalent in my life.

Keep in mind realistic goals as to what's going to happen. You'll begin to find ways and means of increasing your income, of money being more steady and/or bigger amounts when it comes. Generally, you'll be in the flow of money.

Money is like an ocean. . . there is so much more of it that you can or should ever take for just yourself. There is plenty to go around.

Just as there is no shortage of water in the ocean, your only obstacle in acquiring as much of it as you want, is your ability to carry it home.

All you have to do is create a specific strategy to extract what you want. And you can grow or diminish it at will. But if you don't do it at will, it's going to do it to you. It's going to tell you how much you can have and how much you need and what you can do. It's going to be in control of you all of the time.

We simply need to understand that we're in control, that we can manifest whatever it is we want at will.

It's that simple, while at the same time, profound. Change your attitude about money, and it's flow, and watch as you accumulate more of what you want.