TO HAVE OR TO BE?

 

 To Have - or to Be?

 

Two eternally incompatible attitudes. The man who has something cannot be someone, and vice versa.

 

The profane man knows only to have, that is, a number of quantitative objects that are around him on the horizontal earthly level, and what he considers naively as his property.  The profane man knows nothing of his intimate being, of something that is not his, but that is he himself.  Can someone have many possessions at the horizontal level but at the same time be an indigent beggar on the vertical level of his Divine being.  In having so much is, at the same time, nobody.

 

All that man has of worldly goods, it makes him dependent and slave; while man has something that the world can take from him, or desires something that the world can give, he is definitely not free.

 

The idea of mine was born with the idea of I.  When this I dies, dies necessarily all the illusions related with mine.  Who is everything, nothing has; the intense brightness of the being destroys all the darkness of the have.  Who is in reality in search of the kingdom of heaven and its richness, nothing has and nothing wants to have to himself, although it may lend himself as an administrator of the goods of God in favour of his brothers.

 

What I consider mine only has its purpose while still lives in me the notion of the mental-physical I; by the time my little personal I drowns into the depths of the Divine YOU and on the vast US of humanity, that concept of mine has no more reason to exist.

 

For this reason, the man who reached the fullness of his being by the dawn of his cosmic consciousness, loses all sense of possession and ownership.  Nothing acquires and nothing loses.  The uncertain ebb and flow of profits and losses ceased to exist for him, and with that has been eliminated the main source of anxiety that torments the profane.  Nothing has that the world can take, and wants to own anything that the world can give.  However, if the earthly circumstances appoints him as the administrator of the equity of God and humanity, this man manages with the utmost solicitude this universal heritage.

 

For the same reason, man who self stripped his possessions through the maturation of his being does not experience any difficulty or sorrow to pass to other hands the management of that temporary heritage entrusted to him.

 

The great American industrialist R. G. Le Tourneau*, maker of powerful earth-moving equipment had put on the entry of one of his factories the following statement:  "Do not say:  how much of my money I give to God?  Say rather:  how much of God's money I keep for myself?"

 

This man found that we are not in possession of any financial assets, but that all things in the world are gifts of God; however, the administrator of the goods of God is entitled to a small "commission".  Le Tourneau, at the beginning took a commission of 90% for him, giving 10% to God, for the purposes of altruism and religion; finally, reversed the quotas, giving 90% to God and keeping 10% for himself.  However, even those 10% he did not consider himself the owner of it but only administrator, because this money also belonged to God and humanity.

 

The true Self, Divine, knows nothing of possess, because the zenith of the being causes the nothing of have.

 

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* Le Tourneau's contemporary used to say that he was the "Businessman of God".