So what does it exist as, the money that we are always talking about? Well, it is one
massive illusion. It is all just numbers written on paper and computer storage devices,
and assigned to people and entities such as companies and investments, or more
accurately, further records! To put it in another way, for every $100 or its equivalent in
any other currency, only about $4 exists as printed-paper notes or coins, while the
remaining $96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in banks and busi-
nesses and other entities. The only reason this system does not collapse is that we all
believe in it. The last time people stopped believing in it in a large enough extent was
just before the Depression when large numbers of people rushed to their banks to
withdraw their money and found that they could not all get it. This is not what caused
the Great Depression, but it in a large way accelerated it.
So, money is not real - something else is. Money is just the shadow of that other
something. The first step to wealth is to know what money really is, or more accurately,
what it represents. Learn not to look at the money most of the time. As you will soon
see, it is very rare in a day that you should ever look at money as you know it today -
the cash, the bank accounts, the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real
thing. Looking at the shadow, the physical money, as you will soon see, is most of the
time very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances.
Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchang-
ing of this value between people. Our internal value, is what creates money. Money is
the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others
and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically, without
fail.
Know this however: Money represents an aspect of a person’s internal value, but that
does not mean that it represents a person’s entire internal value. That is very impor-
tant. It is not about self-worth. Money only represents an aspect of that internal value
that pertains to wealth. You cannot therefore say that a wealthy person has a higher
self-worth and value than a poor person, but you can correctly say that in matters that
relate and pertain to money, the wealthy person has a higher internal value in that
aspect of value or that the person chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this inter-
nal value. This section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when