A Short Story 96

Money said loudly, “I don’t care what you say, I’m the best. I’m the most desired, the most sought after, and the thing that every man, woman and child on earth wants more than any­thing else in the world. There­fore, I am num­ber one.”

Non­sense,” replied Sex. “Peo­ple lose more sleep over me than they do over you. Peo­ple will kill for me, and have for thou­sands of years, even before you were invented. Peo­ple will kill for you too but not as much as they will for me. I am the great­est. If you were to develop a scale of one to ten you would no doubt be a ten but I would be off the scale. I’m at least a fif­teen. You may be nec­es­sary, on occa­sion, to get me, but with­out me you are use­less. There­fore, I am num­ber one.”

You’re both mad. Let me tell you some­thing Sex, and you too Money, if you’re going to fight over which is top dog, give it up, I win hands down.”

Money and Sex looked up from the play board. Their eyes locked for a moment. A sly smile played with the lips of both of them. The warm breeze, that caressed the group, seemed to increase and a dry leaf flut­tered by Sex who flicked it away with a thought. They looked quizzi­cally at Rela­tion­ships who stood stead­fast, armed by the belief that the pair argu­ing couldn’t be more wrong.

Finally Money spoke. “You have got to be kid­ding. What makes you think you’re more impor­tant than I am? What good are you with­out me? For that mat­ter, what good is any­thing with­out me?”

Before the answer came, Sex broke in, address­ing Rela­tion­ships. “And what about me? They can have me with­out you. As a mat­ter of fact I believe that more peo­ple have me with­out estab­lish­ing you then ever before. No, you won’t con­vince me.”

Rela­tion­ships sighed before speak­ing. “It was always that way. Not only you two, but many oth­ers as well feel that you are the impor­tant ones but con­sider this, I rep­re­sent the good­ness and sat­is­fac­tion of the gen­eral com­mu­nity. Imag­ine a world with­out me. Imag­ine a world where not one sin­gle per­son had a friend, or even an acquain­tance. That world would be a cold and frigid one. You both are impor­tant, although I would hes­i­tate to place you in a hier­ar­chy posi­tion as age would def­i­nitely change that, but you are noth­ing with­out me. There­fore, I am num­ber one.”

Baloney.” a voice rang out. The three turned to the newcomer.

You all are noth­ing with­out me. Did any­one ever get a thing done with­out me? No.

Could any­one have a good rela­tion­ship with­out me? No.

Could any­one enjoy money with­out me? No.

Could any­one enjoy sex with­out me? No.

With­out me you want soli­tude. With­out me you bury your head in a pil­low and let the world go by. With­out me you don’t care a whit for a rela­tion­ship. And as far as you go Sex, with­out me peo­ple wouldn’t even be able to spell your name. With­out me there would be lit­tle, if any sex.

Money with­out me is use­less. A dol­lar, or a mil­lion dol­lars would be all the same with­out me.

I am num­ber one. Always have been and always will be.”

Money, Sex, and Rela­tion­ships looked at one another sheep­ishly. They could not argue with the new­comer. They knew the new­comer was right. They were all use­less by them­selves, or together with­out the bless­ings of the newcomer.

The new­comer stood up, stretched and yawned. Walk­ing away from the group the new­comer stopped and turned before going out in the world to dis­pense the com­mod­ity that all desired above every­thing else.

Don’t feel badly my friends. You three are loved by one and by all. But remem­ber always. You are wanted. But I am needed.”

And with that, Health and Well­ness walked off beyond the hill and into the world.

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96 Comments on “A Short Story” - Post your own?

Cecile says

A very provica­tive story … but these are attrib­utes of each human being to which we have access by the grace of the Divine I Am Pres­ence, also within each of us. We are given the choice to appre­ci­ate, to accept, to develop or not … that either/or thing again. :-)

kim says

So true, What a great way of putting it.

edwina Hlady says

I love you Marc

ingrid says

Health and Well­ness are the most impor­tant things in my life! I am recov­er­ing from a ter­ri­ble acci­dent. I had torn all my lig­a­ments on my right knee. After two surg­eries one in july and one in Dec. 2008 I am still walk­ing with a brace. I never thought that some­thing like this would hap­pen to me. I was run­ning and I fell. The para­medics had to take me to the emer­gency room. I have always worked out. When you can­not do what you use to do it is heart­break­ing. I am slowly recov­er­ing from my injury but it is tak­ing too long for me. All the money in the world can­not give me my health back right now! Every­body tells me you will learn a les­son from this. To be hon­est I do not know what I have learned yet. Maybe not to take every­thing for granted. I already knew that. To slow down? I do not know. Do you?

Marion says

Burt– Health and Well­ness have been my num­ber one for more years than yours! At 91+ it is pay­ing off, big­time!
If you have these, you can still do any­thing. The first rule for me was “I do not have time to be sick”, there­fore ill­nesses passed me by. I for­got to say “I do not have time to get hurt”, and did! Also, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and shots in the arm are ver­boten by choice, and my body keeps on doing what it is sup­posed to do! Never tell your body any­thing bad!!! What­ever you do tell it is what it will become.

Thank you for shar­ing so much lifechang­ing information.

Mar­ion

Russ says

Even though I am in bad health, haven’t money, and do not have a good sex life, I am very happy because of what my sav­ior Jesus Christ has done for me.

J says

Hi Burt,

It is pos­si­ble to have lit­tle or no money, mar­ginal or bad health and no con­sis­tent one-on-one rela­tion­ship, or one-on-one sex, and still be con­tent with being. It is pos­si­ble to con­tribute great good with your life for oth­ers and for your­self. A sig­nif­i­cant ingre­di­ent of a mean­ing­ful exis­tence is one where we are encour­aged to view all cir­cum­stances and ele­ments of life as ben­e­fi­cial for our growth and devel­op­ment. Sex can be a great addi­tion to life how­ever rela­tion­ships that include it aren’t always ones that have great joy. Peo­ple who have great sick­ness pro­vide oth­ers the oppor­tu­nity to learn how to be their own per­sonal best selves – empa­thetic, gra­cious, thank­ful, car­ing, under­stand, gen­er­ous, inten­tional and the like. For some, no mat­ter which one of these ele­ments is miss­ing, and for most of us, all of these things are not always present at the same time, peace­ful and joy­ful sur­vival is still achieved.

The great essence from each of these can help to ele­vate our human con­di­tion and allow us to choose to give great gifts to the world. These are inoc­u­la­tions per se. The essence of these, help us to ward off the great dis­ease of indif­fer­ence to human­ity. We need con­tin­u­ous injec­tions because the oppor­tu­nity for relapse is con­stantly present. Your teach­ings stim­u­late and guide us to the well­spring from which our syringes may be replen­ished – the infi­nite reser­voir within. Per­haps hope, should be fac­tored into this list as well.

It is pos­si­ble to be happy with­out any of these things and also it is pos­si­ble to not be happy when all of these ele­ments are present. Thank you for pro­vok­ing the thoughts and conversation.

Duane the Desert Sage says

I agree with the answer the stated ‘to much, too often’.
Not many agreed but they are inter­conected, you need them all or you miss most.

kevin says

Yea I never beleived the heal­ing part the medi­tion and being won with my mind is all that I cared about, because I know I can do what I wont with my mind wen I wont and thats all that mat­ters to me. But It was fun any way and I got what I wan­nted out of it and thats cool.

kevin says

Yea I got a con­fe­tion of my own I didnt ever believe the heal­ing part. The mede­tion part and being won with my mind is all that I car about.

jag says

enjoyed the story, made me remem­ber what’s important.

Anna says

Yes , the most impor­tanr is health , than hap­pines but money helps to be happy
regards Anna

Nancy says

Thanks Burt, and thanks to all your readers/listeners who have writ­ten with addi­tional aspects of life that we wouldn’t want to for­get:
spir­i­tu­al­ity, intel­lect, art and so forth.

Yes, let’s have it all!

Rosie says

Some­thing else :-)

This might look, sound or feel strange to some.

The real­ity is. I don’t have to choose any­thing. None of us has to choose.
Each of us already has it all.

Burt, this is prob­a­bly what you were try­ing to tell us with the mul­ti­ple uni­verses and the aware­ness expla­na­tions about the Cre­ator and how we are co-creators. That we start from thought, that our time and space is only in this Uni­verse and here we are always lim­it­ing our­selves, that we need to change our per­cep­tion (what is also called our par­a­digm) and open our minds into unlim­ited options we we can find infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties in infi­nite dimensions.

Burt Goldman says

I would like to thank all of you for your won­der­ful comments.

To address a cou­ple of you — yes there may have been more than the two gen­tle­men I noted in my last email who said all aspects in life are equally impor­tant. I apol­o­gize if I missed you. This was an acci­den­tal over­sight. With over 800 com­ments I am sure you can imag­ine how that could happen.

My apolo­gies.

Thanks again for all of your kind words!

Burt

Rosie says

Okey Burt,

I learned. What I want is all and I can have all. Why limit myself if I can deserve to have it all :-)

Cheers

Farrokh says

Burt it was awon­der­ful story and by your per­mis­sion I intent to share it with my friends.Really with­out good health and well­ness of the mind every else is useless.God bless you,keep up the good work.

Bill says

Very good story Burt. Thank you for sharing.

JD says

Really, I want it all!

ben wadddell says

ben the med­i­ta­tion are power i be studing the
CD for a week and my med­i­ta­tion is deeper
and i also studing with Ramtha the school of
enlight­ment and with your med­i­ta­tion Ramtha
i am open up to my higher self moore and moore
and every­day and every­way i am get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter
love you Ben

Shankar says

I won­der where from you get such sto­ries! It is both humor­ous and seri­ous at the same time. And for those who think Health is not impor­tant, I ven­ture to sug­gest this: visit a hos­pi­tal and have a look at the patients.
Ask them “which comes first — money,sex,relationships or health.“
Shankar, India

jack says

Thanks for an enjoy­able exer­cise in cir­cu­lar reasoning.

clara says

This is so true. A nurse for 30 yrs and now work­ing with hos­pice. I have yet to hear a client (patient) state that they wished they had worked more, had more sex or more money. I’ve had some reflect on rela­tion­ships that could have or should have been better.But they always go back to thoughts of health and well­ness when pos­si­ble. Makes you real­ize what really is important.

Melanie says

Burt, That is very true and peo­ple usu­ally end up putting “health & well­ness” on the back burner unless they become ill. Noth­ing does mat­ter with­out health and well­ness, not money, sex, rela­tion­ships, noth­ing. Life doesn’t pause or slow down with­out sex, money or rela­tion­ships but a lack­ing in the health depart­ment could def­i­nitely cause that. Thanks for the inter­est­ing story, I like how you did that!

Ivory says

I say they are all impor­tant in peo­ple lives,we need them all some peo­ple may be lack­ing in one or two,but I hate to see if some­one do not have any of the money, sex,relationship,health and wellness,they may as well be dead.

Cecilia says

Hello Burt,
I am happy I choose health. You see every
christ­mas I always pray for good health.
Thank you for mak­ing me laugh.

Margie says

That was awe­some & so true!
Thank you, Margie

Jonah wani says

Hi Burt Gold­man
I would like to give thanks for the lesson’s that I took.It has gaven me great hope in all areas of my life.I will con­tinue to lean more from you as long as I live. thank you for share­ing the wis­dom that you are will­ing to give to those who are ready to take.
regards Jonah

Ines Rivas says

Burt, excel­lent point of view! I love and enjoy your work. thank you so much for shar­ing. Ines

jb says

Its the experience…the bal­ance of every­thing that leads us all to our own unique experience

Alesandra says

Dear Burt,
A won­der­ful story that describes beau­ti­fully how I felt when I chose Health as Top oF the List.
With­out health and well­ness every­thing else would have no meaning.

marios says

Its won­der­full story .very edu­ca­tional thanks BURT. Marios

Christine says

I am” enjoy­ing every moment of just being.
What more can a girl want or need. :)

Kenny says

This con­tra­dicts your email,you said that all are sup­posed to be equal but in the end you say health would be most important.All are almost equal to me but i wpuld rather joy than money. :) bet­ter and better

Ron says

Has any­one noticed the egoic dis­func­tion of responses to
a sim­ple ques­tion? (includ­ing my own that needed to make a response!)
I jumped into a par­al­lel uni­verse, met my twin that had
all those things, Money, Sex, Rela­tion­ships, and Health & Well­ness and now I can dwell in har­mony with “what is” with­out judge­ment, criti­sism, com­plain­ing or neg­a­tive emotions…try it you might like it (or not)

Suni Dalbec says

I just read some­where that Learn­ing is find­ing out what you already know.…Doing is demon­strat­ing that you know it.…Teaching is remind­ing oth­ers that they know just as well as you. It came from The Reluc­tant Mes­siah by Richard Bach. This is what lead me to want to know more, learn more, have more.…..Burt you fill that void, teach­ing us in such a way that is fun and easy ( how did you know I was blonde?)Everyday in every­way I’m get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter and learn­ing eas­ier and eas­ier. Thank you from the bot­tom of my heart. Suni

Liz says

Peace to everyone..You’re loved!
xo

Kathleen says

Well Burt,

I have to say that I was some­what taken back by your email this morn­ing to say that out of your stunt you received 800+ replies to your ques­tion and the P.S. I see is this “Out of the 800 com­ments on the post, only 2 men named Gary and David com­mented that all of the areas I men­tioned were equally impor­tant in their lives.

Now I have to say that I made the same com­ment so how many other peo­ple have said the same thing too. Any why would you not make note on them too.

This makes me ques­tion the valid­ity of ever doing this again with any­one, was it just a sim­ple over sight or is it done to achieve the out­come you want us to see.

Cheers,
Kathleen

Josie says

Hi folks,

i had chose love and was intend­ing to put this PS on then i got this new blog.

Sure i fell into the trap of think­ing i had to choose one of the 4, so i chose the closest.

but when i say love i was think­ing of the Whit­ney Hous­ton song ‘learn­ing to love yourself’

this is what hap­pens to me when i bagha. i love myself more which makes me more con­fi­dent, my stress melts away so my health improves, so i am able to put more into rela­tion­ships, i become more attrac­tive and so gain more friends, i gain more con­fi­dence so i go out out and earn more money.

isn’t this what burt’s been telling us.

Stacia says

All of that is well and good but What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his own soul? Every­thing is equally impor­tant and all is noth­ing with­out God. Many won­der­ful things are for us to enjoy if we real­ize they all have a place and a time in our lives. Thank you for your insight on things.

Roy says

All of them
Roy

jerry says

Well Burt,
I say that all the things…sex,money,relationships,etc…are all areas, where we seek to find happiness/joy.all mate­r­ial things are grease, they get you to a point.I believe the real­ity in the end…is joy,happiness,love.All other things are to give the seeker the illusion,of what he/she believes.We all strive towards happiness/joy.That is what I think and believe. After all Burt…everything you do, experience,learn, teach is a learn­ing that helps you to grow,that even­tu­ally and hope­fully brings you to a level of under­stand­ing, which makes you serene,peaceful…but, ultimitely happy and joyful.So, that’s my sift and sort. See ya !

maureen says

I believe the answer is love. Uncon­di­tional love for one­self, oth­ers, and all that is. When we can truly expe­ri­ence and main­tain this state of being then bliss, health, pros­per­ity, and all else is ours.

K.N. RAO says

You are hun­dred per cent right. We love your work and you are an inspi­ra­tion. How­ever, when we have health and well­ness they make us feel like hav­ing sex and money and what not. Thus, health and well­ness make us long for all other worldly things. Lack of helath and well­ness may make us think about God and turn us towards spir­i­tu­al­ity. KNR.

dr char says

Fab­u­lous.… Burt you are like a warm, gen­tle breeze on a per­fect sum­mer evening.. comforting,calming and giv­ing those moments of “ahh­h­h­h­h­h­hhh”.
Blessings.

Leila says

Some­one, I think it was Ram Dass, said that most people’s prob­lem was that a bill through the door could make a happy per­son unhappy. I like that but I don’t know if it’s very relevant.

The trick was well played! Thanks.

Frederick says

Love makes all worth­while — pehaps not the mod­ern usage which focuses on a feel­ing one can have towards a cake.

Love is toward God uni­verdally and your­self in bal­ance with your neigh­bors. There­fore love of self can pro­duce well­ness and in bal­ance peace for your neigh­bors. The well­ness pro­duces opor­tu­ni­ties for sex and energy to build wealth.

And the Love for God pro­duces the blance to have all.

From that flows

Lindsey says

Burt — we love you! I have been fol­low­ing your teach­ing for about a year. I have pur­chased the Mind­box series and the Quan­tum Jump­ing and use them all the time. Each day my life unfolds to excit­ing things and rea­sons to be thank­ful. I am now pur­su­ing goals that I never dreamed pos­si­ble and more impor­tantly — achiev­ing them. By the way — the money rhythm con­cept really works! I selected a song that came into my head from the 1940’s “In the Mood” by Glen Miller — my par­ents gen­er­a­tion — and its now the money song for me. I hum it and I also down­loaded to my itunes and I keep get­ting money!!

Ricky says

Burt

Great story. I am going thru that trial right now , for I was not blessed with good health. You do look at the world in a very dif­fer­ent way.

Thank you

Rute says

I agree whit you, because I sow when I was work­ing at BMW let me explain myself .Wow it’s nice to buy a BMW!!! But most of does clients they were mis­er­able so I said to myself I red­der be finan­cial ok then be mis­er­able like them they can’t see. Health and well­ness is what I want then the rest and Aim devot­ing my time to work on myself to love myself and more…
Thank you Burt.

Henrik says

Adult humans have just two thoughts in their Mind.Money and Sex.For the Male Money and Sex.For the Female Sex and Money.That is all there is.Spiritual con­nec­tion is very rare and usu­ally occurs when there is no money and no sex.

g.j. says

Money, Sex, Rela­tion­ships, even Health are all nec­es­sary tools in life. But the ulti­mate result we are all search­ing for and need is HAPPINESS.
All the oth­ers are a means to an end. Nec­es­sary even essen­tial but means to an end nonetheless.

Alex says

I fully agree… there is not one of the beings you cre­ated in your story that will allow for a com­plete human being. It is a shame we spend so much of our time try­ing to be less than we are.

Thank you for bring­ing this thought into the clear­ness of mind.

Jane says

Has any­one heard of Stephen Hawk­ings — does any­one think he has noth­ing? You could say he is one of the luck­i­est peo­ple in the world because he obvi­ously does not agree as he is happy that he has the mind he has. If cir­cum­stances we find our­selves in can affect our inner non dual self, then we truly are poor in spirit and slaves to the physical.

Steinar says

Fine story. I liked it.

carla slingerland says

please send me no mail any­more
Thank you.

Ann-kathrine says

Dear Burt!

Every­day if we stop our thought´s and let us calm down and sit still for a lit­tle while and just be. Our soft voice within will try to con­tact us if we just let it.
Give it a try and see what hap­pens…, when you do so you will soon real­ize that you don´t need any­thing to be any­thing. Because you already have it all there is, inside your own soul. Accept every­thing as it is right now and just go with the flow and you will have it all there is, NOW.

Love, Light & Peace
Ann-kathrine

Linda J says

I agree with you, Burt. Health and well­ness is what we all want when the rub­ber meets the road. I fell into the trap with­out even sens­ing that one was there. Thank you for point­ing it out. Aware­ness is the key because until you are aware you don’t know what’s miss­ing or there in your universe.

Winfried says

I don´t agree, ´cause for my opin­ion bliss­ful­ness is always num­ber one. When I am bliss­ful, than it doesn´t mat­ter, in which cir­cum­stances I am, because I am one with the one­ness with my higher self and than there is no dual­ity there is only the “ONE”!

alan says

Hi
you rma­te­r­ial is agreat.but this con­stant bomabrd­ment of e-mails. Fom your friends at Silva frankly is get­ting a bit much.
This is the sec­ond time today I am deal­ing with the smae pro­mo­tion peice,

Enough already.Become more rel­vant by e-mailing once a week.

James Henry Shelton says

WOW Burt awe­some conclusion.without health and well­ness even bob dylan would say yes it would be sinceless.elvis risked it all over money and drugs and he didn’t even make it.sadly,yet oh well we can learn alot from Burt he is wise.I know now what you mean this is gonna be put on my favorites.I know that all are impor­tant this is just amazing.Wowzer I am shocked some­one like you needs to be men­tioned in news­pa­pers definitely.This is astonishing.

Laura says

ok Burt. I didnt com­ment before but here is my take on
the ques­tion. With­out joy, there is no health or any­thing else for that mat­ter, because joy man­i­fests all
the other things nec­es­sary to be omnipo­tent and omnipresent. Isnt that what quan­tum jump­ing is all about? A per­son with­out joy can­not imag­ine a hall or door or another real­ity for that mat­ter. A per­son with­out joy can­not PLAY.
Laura

Henrik says

Mes­sage from Freedomfighter!Throw out your TV-set!Burn your creditcards!Rely on each other!Unied we can not fall.

Henrik says

Per­haps the US and Euroa­sia are still British colonies?Brits and the Han­novers are VERY smart.

Henrik says

The sec­ond Amer­i­can Revolution!That is what Burt –wihout Intent!-has created!Everywhere in this par­al­lell Univers Peo­ple like You and me are throw­ing out their TV-sets and burn­ing their cards.They just rely on mutual Love.Oh Good!

Joy says

I DO HAVE HEALTH AND FAMILYTHANK YOU GODAND ME!! NOW MONEY WOULD MAKE MANY PLANS AND WISHES TO EXPAND BEYOND OUR PRESENT EDUCATIONS AND TRAVELSWE WERE MEANT TO GROW AND LEARN. MONEY MAKES MANY DREAMS OF EXPANSION POSSIBLE FOR ALL. TO STOP IMPROVING AND LEARNING IS TO LIVE IGNORANTLY AND UNHAPPILY.

Tony says

Hi Burt,

Inter­est­ing story.

How­ever, if one already has very good health despite it being more impor­tant than money, rela­tion­ships and sex, it is not an issue for them.

They may know how to main­tain good health [good food, bit of exer­cise, med­i­ta­tion, plenty of water etc] so thats not a prob­lem for them, but what that per­son may lack is a way to make good money in their own [internet?]business.

Now that may be slightly harder, at least if you don’t know how or your brother etc is not a mil­lion­aire who can show you one-on-one in your own room.

Yes you need all the qual­i­ties but what some­one lacks is what they want or need the most. Seems a lot of peo­ple want money, espe­cially now.

Real­is­ti­cally, get­ting to all the peo­ple one-on-one per­son­ally is not prac­ti­cal and maybe not desir­able, ‘and’ maybe not be afford­able to the per­son who wants/needs that kind of attention.

Never ever give up though because at least you can say you died try­ing, which is bet­ter and a lot more vauable as a per­son than say­ing you died but didn’t even have the guts to try.

The more we learn the bet­ter we will be in pur­su­ing our goals, so at least con­sis­tently keep learn­ing about what you want to achieve. Sooner or later [or a lot later] there is a good chance you will achieve success.

Always look for­ward to some­thing and never give up!

Thank you Burt.

Regards
Tony

Pamela Murawski says

Burt it would be inter­est­ing if you had included imagination.

Henrik says

Did You know the US started with pam­flet­ting free­dom­fight­ers tired of the British who sucked every cent we had?Now it is the sec­ond Amer­i­can Revolution!Throw out Your TV sets and burn your cred­it­cards and lis­ten to Burt!

Pamela Murawski says

I dis­agree with you and go a step fur­ther and say I am is the top dog. I am is God. With­out the real­iza­tion that God is within you a per­son is noth­ing more than the sand on the beach. Drift­ing away!

Henrik says

I really like the face of Goldman!Look at his eyes!It is green-black-gold.Sure the col­ors changes.And a gold shower of small “points”.My mother had the same Eyes

Mary says

Each one is impor­tant. What makes one more impor­tant than the oth­ers depends on what our pri­or­i­ties in life are. True, with­out health we can­not enjoy the oth­ers to their fullest, but if we are grate­ful for every­thing we have and work towards becom­ing the best we can be our lives will be suc­cess­ful. It is impor­tant also to love our­selves first so that we can love oth­ers. When we get our inner world sorted out every­thing else falls into place.

Henrik says

Burt Gold­man spelled back­wards is “namd­log trub”.“Namned logg thrubb”.No it does not make any sense.

charleyn says

I think you are wrong, many peo­ple are what you would call happy, being grate­ful for what they do have, and do not have all the things you men­tion. What they do have is a grate­ful heart. And no one is happy all the time, we all have our ups and downs. We need to focus on what we do have and make the best of it.

ruby says

beau­ti­ful story.

John says

Won­der­ful story Mr.Goldman.I have to dis­agree though as I think spir­i­tu­al­ity is the most important.Spirituality helps you dis­cover your­self and with it comes health,wellness,money,relationships,love and any­thing else you desire.It cre­ates bal­ance. John :)

Henrik says

The men­tal con­di­tion­ing at the schools and “Media” is really a “slaughterhouse”.This “Good-knows-who” wants that.Cause it is “convenient”.But You “Gold­man” have looked behind the “screen” so to say.Lucky for You “Gold­man” that You where not at Ohama-beach at D-day.
You are realy Great!

Henrik says

You have noticed the weird con­di­tion­ing of inno­cent Minds in schools and Media?You are a Spir­i­tual Hero,

Henrik says

Goldman.You are real “Gold”.Alchemical gold.I really from the bot­tom of my hearts expe­ri­ence think you are 100% RIGHT.Cause I also found out that it is Ok to have the cake and eat it.Not just one time but as long as you wish.You are a wise man,“Gold-man”!Henrik

Jan says

I have always thought that money is only as good as what good it can effect. Sex is a delight but never nec­es­sary. With­out rela­tion­ships we would be unable to see our­selves, and, I sus­pect, heal–because we are social crea­tures. Ulti­mately, a healthy per­son is likely to have good rela­tion­ships. The first good rela­tion­ship one needs to have is with ones Self!That would tend to encour­age tak­ing care of self. And some­one who has good rela­tion­ships with Self and oth­ers, and health, can eas­ily have all the rest. But ulti­mately, good health and good rela­tion­ship are more valu­able than all the gold on earth.

Bev Petel says

True health and well­ness is inter­nal bal­ance, order and sta­bil­ity which comes after con­quer­ing early con­di­tioned state and inner fears…
Then one chooses the nature of rela­tion­ships needed,better under­stands not to react with other rela­tion­ships but to strate­gize with fore­thought, and con­sid­ers sex from an inner cen­ter of higher eth­i­cal respect..now amount of money is man­aged around self-preservtion and greater con­cern turns to con­cern for how the greater world is doing.…
Thanks Burt.…I have taken the journey…

Bev…

Maureen says

Please don’t go to my web­site yet as it is just being put together and there are a few hic­cups which will soon be sorted out.

Your story was great and I would like to add that when I was med­i­tat­ing this morn­ing (some­thing I am only begin­ning to incor­po­rate into my life) it dawned on me that every­thing we have ever thought, said and done we can imme­di­ately for­give our­selves for, all we need is to get on and do it. Every time we think some­thing which is a “worry” thought” just tell your­self “that’s fine, that was then and this is now and I’m okay” That’s it. Do it with every thought as it comes up — then let it go.

There’s no-one out there who needs to absolve us of our past or present thoughts, only us. But we are the great­est per­pe­tra­tors and only we can for­give our­selves. We are learn­ing that the ways in which we have been taught need amend­ing, that’s all, but we had to make the mis­takes in the first place, oth­er­wise we would have noth­ing to work on. Releas­ing it all works imme­di­ately on me and will help you too, when you are ready.

Accept what is and focus on you always.
Love and happy thoughts xxxxx

Cathy says

Hello Burt,

You have so much wis­dom Burt,thank’s for sharing,I agree.
We love your work & you are an inspiration.

Cathy

Anne says

I’d like to think that I already had some of this wis­dom :) and I com­pletely agree. Thanks for the reinforcement.

Anne

marilyn says

We have been so con­di­tioned that we live in an either/or soci­ety that I can under­stand all of the above. My point is that the Divine Spirit did not impose either/or men­tal­ity on us. We imposed it on our­selves and our soci­ety rein­forced the idea. My own take on the mat­ter is that all are equally impor­tant and indeed vital for us to lead a bal­anced life. There­fore if I am attempt­ing to lead a bal­anced, cen­tered life then I need all the ingre­di­ents not just one or two.

Raven says

I’ve been a mil­lion­aire, and have expe­ri­enced abject poverty … am now some­where between the two.
Sex­ual ecstacy was once my rai­son d’etre. Now I’m celi­bate.
Lov­ing rela­tion­ships were beau­ti­ful … until they ended.
I was bedrid­den for 4 long months and am now in per­fect health.

Your short story touched me deeply. Thanks

Fabrice says

Nice story!And about your post “which of these are most imor­tant?” I voted but with­out let­ting a com­ment coz I thought more than one answer should be pos­si­bly cho­sen at the same time!well for us in Africa,I don’t know what is more impor­tant but let say it is engagement.I love all your stuffs, “just being able to get the free ones (-:” Hope the best for all the readers!

Teresa says

I can tes­tify to the truth of your mean­ing­ful story. I had all the first things, but not health. This was so depress­ing, until heal­ing and well­ness came to me via energy heal­ing modal­i­ties and med­i­ta­tion. What you have writ­ten is RIGHT ON, Burt! We love your work. Teresa

Therese Kutscheid says

Yep, I agree strongly with that you have noth­ing with­out health and well­ness but again if you don’t have money to buy right food and place to live and that brings wor­ries and if you worry too much you loose you health and on and on.…. what was first there the eg or the chuck?
I think we need bal­ance.
Any­way thank’s for that fun story. I did enjoy it very much.
Love and blessings

Tony says

If I was born with a defect, I would not have my heath and well­ness to do all the things I wanted no fault of mine, and feel depressed that that was the No1 thing that had as a pri­or­ity. How­ever if, I had really good rela­tion­ships includ­ing one with myself ( love myself for what I am ) then I have the capa­bil­ity (espe­cially men­tally) to more fore­ward and achieve the others.

Patricia says

I dis­agree. Health and well­ness are impor­tant, but if I had to choose between all the above, I’d take the rela­tion­ship, hands down.

Besides, we have a rela­tion­ship of some sort with EVERYTHING any­way. Life is what you make of it, it’s not about what you’re handed.

Besides, if you are healthy and well, but have lousy rela­tion­ships, all the money, sex and health don’t mean a whole lot.

Cosima says

the story both i find and the fol­low ups too.

Jane says

Health and well­ness are think­ing in terms of the whole of human­ity depend­ing on them –what an invi­ta­tion to fear that is if I believed that. Why would I need to become attached to an ide­al­ogy wwhich has at its roots a sav­iour com­plex and is rooted in per­fec­tion­ism. All the very best.

Cosima says

well Health and Well­ness also will be noth­ing with­out the whole the only one the ONENESS.

The UNITY in ONE.

Coher­ence and ONENESS are the TOPPING the icing on the cake — the rest what makes the cake good.

the catch 20/20 smile…we need Unity in Every­thing. No Unity no Everything!!!

thank you Anna i learn of your com­ment and thanks Burt to you, you just gave me a ligh­t­in­ing in my soul. THXs

Cosima from Germany

Nilesh says

This is an age old wis­dom and will con­tinue to hold good till the end of mankind. You have put it in a good way

Anna says

You are com­pletely cor­rect. With­out health and well­ness, no mat­ter how much sex, rela­tion­ships or money, these three are worth­less. None of it can be enjoyed with­out health and well­ness.
Thank you for the inspi­ra­tional anthology.

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