Living Within Our Means is a common belief about money. From a physical perspective, we live within our means when our financial outgoings balance with our financial income. We fail to live within our means when our expenses exceed our earnings. Our means are not our financial income but our ability to balance our finances, by having a healthy bank balance. In this context, ‘means’ means balance.
From a spiritual perspective, I live within my means whenever I choose a third way out of the dilemma caused by a duality. A dilemma means I am out of balance, with no clear choice of direction; so neither choice fulfils any reasonable purpose.
Reason & purpose give balance & meaning to choice. The mean choice is a fulfilling choice because it has a balance of both mental reasoning & emotional purpose. When my reason has no clear purpose, it is out of balance and has no meaning. When a purpose is unreasonable, it is out of balance and is meaningless. A definitely beneficial choice is certainly reasonable, purposeful & meaningful because it is fulfilling my contentment with joy.
I live within my means emotionally with a pure energy vibration because my energy bank is full of creative power. My vibrational power is pure when it is undivided by male or female gender. Every male sin & female virtue has a mean balance, which is a potential third choice that overcomes the duality of any dramatic emotional intensity.
We all have the potential to live within our means when we are choosing empowered emotional feelings to express. Empowered emotional feelings never drain our energy reserves. It is the uncertainty of our relative choices that causes the drain on our creative power. Choosing other people’s choices always requires the power of other people’s motivation:
- I am motivated by what I need emotionally and I am empowered with my own Self Love
- I am motivated by either pride or humility, unless I am empowered with the awareness of modest forgiveness
- I am motivated by either envy or kindness, unless I am empowered with the confident authority of inspired kindliness
- I am motivated by either gluttony or the poverty of a scarcity mentality, unless I am empowered with the abundance of enough contentment
- I am motivated by either lustful desire or passionate caring, unless I am empowered with the joyful approval of the grace of my own self worth
- I am motivated by either selfish greed or unselfish pleasing, unless I am empowered with the integrity of my own truly selfish fulfilment
- I am motivated by either the anger or the patience of my wrath or meekness, unless I am empowered with the gratitude of allowing my gentle acceptance
- I am motivated by either the duty of due diligence or the laziness of my sloth, unless I am empowered with my own effortless flow of appreciation
When I am empowered by the mean emotional balance of my choice, it means I have the potential to live within my means. I am inspired to be content, fulfilled & joyfully happy; by being accepting, approving & allowing, with expansive confidence in the awareness of the abundantly creative power & authority of the value of my own integrity.
Integrity means whole, undivided and at one with my Self. Living life with integrity is no mean feat and a very mean choice.