Being rich in a Life without doing anything for Money!

Receiving instead of fighting and struggling!

Just a moment ago I looked through more than one hundred hubs to find something interesting to maybe make a comment. I started and went on and on and all the hubs had to do with money. How to make money, how to make more money and how to make even more money with hubs about making money.

Oh boy! I though, where am I? Then I could understand, that when making money with ones hubs, then because most of the people here have the same intention, so writing about how to make money is the most attractive. That's not what I am looking for and now I am not surprised that when a few days ago I had ask several questions, nobody answered, because my questions had nothing to do with money and also not about sex or food. Money, sex and food, these seem to be the most favorite topics here, so probably I'm at the wrong place. But once here, I will just express myself, no matter if there is some body interested or not and I don't expect comments at this moment.

It is pretty obvious that in this society every thing turns around material matters. Money is the flag that is carried in front of common goals. - I am out of this and this happened already fifty years ago, so it is a long story... but I will try to keep it short.

When I was in my twenties and started to study, I was not sure about anything, but was observing my surroundings in a critical way. I was growing up in the second world war and we never had much, but my mother was very good in 'organizing', so we had always enough to eat. But now the war was over several years ago and it seemed that every body was living in abundance. Looking around, I noticed that all people were busy to make money. I didn't understand this, because I was interested in art, music, philosophy, psychology, history of religions and all kind of other topics that had nothing to do with money. So I was asking myself: What is it all about that people's interest turns so much around money? Should I do the same? It didn't look like that people were happy and also not those with a lot of money. So what should I do?

I didn't really know what to think and just waited for an answer being in silence. - - - There showed up a strong and very clear voice from within myself: "You don't need to worry about money. You will always have enough for your needs and as much as it is good for you!"

Wow! This voice was so clear and convincing, that from this moment on I never worried about having money or not and so I never did any thing just for money.

I wanted to study, so I went hitch hiking on the way to Munich. In the evening I reached Stuttgart. There was a beautiful sunset and watching at it, some body ask me where I was going. I said that I wanted to study in Munich and then this person said: "Why you don't study here in Stuttgart, there is a good place for what you want to study?" I though. Why not? And went there. I had a talk with a professor and he said that I could stay and follow him, even the semester had already started. So I looked for a room to stay and I found one the same day. I tiny room but cosy and surprise: it was gratis! I only had to take care of the central heating, but the winter was far away and the heating system was automatic. I had a place to stay and even on Sunday I was given some home made cake! In summer holidays I hitch hiked to the south of France where I was living in a house at the cost German soldiers had build during their stay watching the sea. I met people who invited me for the weekends to come to their home in Marseille... I had a really good time... It went on like this, money never was a subject to me. I finished my studies, had a good job and I liked my work... Life went on. I found out, that this kind of work was not what I wanted, because every thing was too much influenced by commercial interests.

I wanted to do something to influence people and help them in their obviously stuck condition in that they were not really happy, even they could make a lot of money and had all they wanted and what was suggested and offered by society. It seemed clear to me that people needed information and so I opened a mail order bookshop with a selection of books in this topics. I made a catalogue with a precise description of every book and send this to interested people. My 'business' was a success from the first moment on. The customers were content with my service. Then I also visited prisons and delivered good books to them. I was engaged and satisfied although money was involved some how.

But then I met my woman at a meditation gathering in Munich when Maharishi Mahesh Yogi came first to Germany. To make it short: After half y year we married and opened a shop with books, antiques and some fashion things. We had no money and bought all without knowing if this adventure would succeed. But it did: From the first moment on we had enough clients and could continue. But then there came the moment, when I couldn't pay all the bills that had accumulated. I didn't worry, knowing that "there would be always enough..." Then there came a lady into the shop. She looked around and said: "Nice shop you have, - do you need money?" I said: "Well, some money would help to get out of the squeezing situation..." She answered: "How much do you need?" I told her an amount and she wrote a check. Wow! - - - I could pay her back monthly and was out of any pressure.

We continued for several years without any problems. One summer we went for holidays to Spain were friends had a house. We liked the place so much, that we bought the ruin of a two hundred years old house in a little village at the Costa Brava. Then I rebuild the house in the same way as it originally was. Meanwhile I had a socio for my business and could stay away. When living in Spain, we liked it so much, that we wanted to stay and not to  go back to Germany. So our socio bought the business and we never went back. We had freedom in a way we never had dreamed about! We could do what we really liked without the need to make money.

I will continue writing my story even though it seems nobody is interested, as there are very few readers and no comments...