Beatitudes: A Prosperity-Based Interpretation of Wisdom Literature

The Beatitudes is the name given to the best-known and introductory portion of the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew.
Here are some insights into the highest meaning of each statement:

The poor in spirit — theirs is the kingdom of heaven

This means that we should remain teachable and be willing to grow. Humility is understanding your right size, putting the Source of Good first, putting spirit before ego, and becoming who you are meant to be.

Those who mourn will be comforted

This implies that we should turn our will toward the spirit. Understand your private emotions and transcend your instincts that may result in destructive thinking and action.

The meek shall inherit the earth

Forgive and receive forgiveness. Through self-analysis, meditation, or focused prayer and visualization, you can allow the highest thoughts to enter your spiritual mind. Forgive yourself and allow goodness to grow in your heart.

Those who hunger will be filled

Remain hungry for insight and guidance; never give up. The mind, when connected to spirit, is a benefactor of the greatest wisdom.

The merciful will obtain mercy

Think and project love and gratitude. Radiate your good toward all, including those who may have hurt you in the past. It is key for you to rise above past hurts and become the best you can be while also affording kind acts toward others that will help them grow.

The pure in heart will see God

Our thinking, actions, and omissions are part of our mind and character. Keeping a mind directed toward the highest good will always expand your abundance and its flow toward you.

The peacemakers will be the children of God

Bring harmony and win-win relationships to all without facilitating injury to yourself or your family.

The persecuted — theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Experience and feel a catharsis, absolution, forgiveness, and wholeness. Your duty is to transcend your lower mental states into peace, love, abundance, and gratitude.

The Lord’s Prayer — Analysis

1. Our Father in heaven
   Interpretation: You are the royal heir to spiritual power and love. The Spark of Christ is within you and is the connecting force that animates your essence and powers.

2. Hallowed be your name.
   Interpretation: The nature of God is abundance and wholeness.

3. Your kingdom come.
   Interpretation: The connection to the spiritual supreme force is available always through willingness and spiritual seeking.

4. Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
   Interpretation: Meeting the Supreme halfway will allow the will of God to function through you in its most effective way.

5. Give us this day our daily bread.
   Interpretation: Knowing that unlimited good is available to you, and being thankful to the Lord for all blessings, keeps the flow and connection alive.

6. And forgive us our trespasses or debts.
   Interpretation: Release us from mental or other burdens and allow our potential to expand for the glory of God.

7. As we also have forgiven others / our debtors.
   Interpretation: We can pray to release others from any negative thoughts.

8. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
   Interpretation: Protect us, and we earnestly thank You for blessings and protection.

Quotes on Healing, Prosperity, and Abundance

• “It is wealth to be content.” — Lao-Tzu

• “Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.” — Benjamin Franklin

• “Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” — Deepak Chopra

• “He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.” — Marcus Aurelius

• “Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.” — Eckhart Tolle

• “If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.” — Robert Kiyosaki

• “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” — Napoleon Hill

• “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” — Anthony Robbins

• “Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.” — Dr. Wayne Dyer

• “Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your Maker, to the Architect of the Universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson.” — Bob Proctor

• “Living in abundance and prosperity is a reasonable option.” — Magus Incognito

• “You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven’t had your fair share.” — Stuart Wilde

• “Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.” — Eric Butterworth

• “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

• “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” — Psalm 1:3

• “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin

• “Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” — Epicurus

• “Gratitude is the vital ingredient in the recipe for faith.” — Magus Incognito

• “We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

• “The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defiant though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them really ours, we must think them over again honestly till they take root in our personal expression.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “All that we are is a result of what we have thought.” — Buddha

• “Wealth is the slave of a wise man, the master of a fool.” — Seneca

• “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “Money is like manure; you have to spread it around or it smells.” — J. Paul Getty

• “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.” — Lord John Dalberg-Acton

• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle

• “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” — Kahlil Gibran

• “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” — Norman Vincent Peale

• “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” — John 10:10, KJV

• “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” — Francis Bacon

• “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” — Mahatma Gandhi

• “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

• “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” — Brian Tracy

• “You can open your mind to prosperity when you realize the true definition of the word: You are prosperous to the degree you are experiencing peace, health, and plenty in your world.” — Catherine Ponder, Open Your Mind to Prosperity

• “There is a science of prosperity, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.” — Wallace D. Wattles

• “Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.” — Dr. Maxwell Maltz