HOW TO FIND AND MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITY: The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 3

No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him. Because other people have monopolized the wealth and put a fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels open to you. Probably it would be hard for you to get control of any of the great railroad systems, that field is pretty well monopolized.

And if individuals are poor, it is because they do not follow the certain way of doing things which makes the individual man rich. The formless stuff is intelligent. It is stuff which thinks it is alive and is always impelled towards more life. It is the natural and inherent impulsive life to seek to live more. It is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe of forms has been made by formless living substance, throwing itself into form in order to express itself more fully. The universe is a great living presence, always moving inherently towards more life and fuller functioning. Nature is formed for the advancement of life, its impelling motive is the increase of life.