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Those who discover the way to step into what remains beyond flow, the “at will” choice to access profound creativity in the service of their passions, often live by a simple dictum … Now, put aside all the rationalizations and arguments about pursuing and attaining wealth, e.g.: how you can help others when you have the resources to do so (are you really seeking wealth so that you can help others first and foremost, really?) … or, the ideal of the freedom to live a you like when you have enough wealth (how much is “enough” and are you truly free when you are obsessed, even in part, by hoarding and managing your wealth?). There are other rationalizations and arguments, but we want to consider the point about the installation of the belief that wealth has the inherent ability to create deep, profound satisfaction … when all the evidence seems to point to another reality. Garrett from Nashville, TnBacharach and David are one of the most celebrated and successful songwriting teams in popular music history. Out of their many, many hits, BOTH usually cite this one as their #1 favorite. Singer/songwriter Tori Amos performed the theme as part of her repertoire as a teen, and references it in the song "Gold Dust" from her 2002 album Scarlet's Walk. Alfie spends time recuperating in a pastoral sanitorium, where he befriends Harry, a fellow patient, a family man devoted to his frumpy wife Lily. Alfie makes out with one of the nurses, disgusting Harry. Alfie thinks nothing of cheating, lying, stealing, or taking other men's wives. When Alfie flippantly suggests that Lily might be cheating on him, Harry angrily confronts Alfie about his attitudes and behaviour.So here’s the fundamental, driving question … “Does the striving for wealth bring satisfaction, or does it satisfy a false need that has been impressed and imposed upon the psyches of those heedlessly pursing it?” Joe from New Orleans, Louisiana, UsaAmazing the lyricist says this line meant nothing: 'what will you lend on an old golden rule' .... the golden rule is widely accepted in most cultures (even among atheists) as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (as in treat others as you would like to be treated by them) -- a sentiment which fits perfectly with the overall challenge the song poses to its title character, Alfie, a self-centered, post-war, would-be playboy with a love-them-and-leave-them approach to women, even if he impregnates them. The song questions the meaning of life: 'what's it all about, alfie, is it just for the moment we live....are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind? ... and if only fools are kind, alfie, then i guess we are wise to be cruel, and if life belong only to the strong, alfie, what will you lend on an old golden rule?" the song inventories alfie's shallow, self-centered, self-justifying way of thinking and living to show how misguided and contrary to the golden rule he is.....as are many if not most other humans, especially the unwise when they are young. GEEZUZ ! How can the writer of such a lyric have stumbled stupidly into including it just to fill space and claim it had/has no meaning at all - it must be Divine Intervention that he wrote it at all .... or a demonstration that there is no god and everything is just random and accidental, including the most important message lyric of a great song. Chris Evans' Dog Adorably Interrupts His Interview With 'The View': "He Needs To Be The Center Of Attention" Taylor Ann Green Confesses That She "Initiated" Kiss With Austen Kroll On 'Southern Charm': "I Caught Him Off Guard"

Now some have indeed transcended this cycle, and as I’ve said even found a way to wealth via their profound expression as they live their lives. A a vast majority of times these folks have started with an idea to release themselves to their deep passions and the creativity that pours forth from that release. Then again, often working tirelessly to develop and manifest the expression of that passion and creativity, they found themselves rewarded in ways that even exceeded their sometimes enormous expectations. Palmarès de la chanson anglophone et allophone au Québec" (in French). BAnQ. Archived from the original on August 9, 2018 . Retrieved September 11, 2019.Myth offers us a way to learn from the experience of others without enduring the pain and suffering they paid to get the lessons that their myth offers us now. The passions of the most celebrated persons in history seem to converge on their desire and intention to explore some unique creative urge, whether that urge was expressed in the form of manifesting some great work of art, or manufacturing some incredible contribution to humanity, or exploring some deep unknown mystery, or simply finding a way to live in greater harmony with the flow of life as they found it arising before them.

When we think about all the most esteemed individuals in the chronicles of human history who are the most esteemed? I’d argue strongly that the wealthy do not fall into this category, even when we are amazed at their success in attaining enormous wealth. In fact some of the most infamous and despised characters in history were amongst the wealthiest as their stories are told. British Pop Art artist Pauline Boty makes a brief appearance as the manageress of a Dry-Cleaner's whom Alfie visits for sex. Boty died just over three months after the film's UK premiere. We can find a common traits in these lives, in story and in fact … they live in what I’ve begun to call a space that exists beyond the state of flow, where the synchronicity between the desire to create and the ability to achieve the creation you desire chase one another in a looping Möbius strip of delight. To choose a life of expression over accumulation requires a rejection of the messages installed and inculcated to induce you to join in the toil of production for the sake of production, and often unwittingly for the benefit of providing others with the best and most desirable fruits of your labor. This game has been the mainstay of a certain class of humans since the beginning of recorded history, a history of enslavement and production for the benefit of the ruling class, the nobles, who place themselves above others, and claimed to be their betters .. all the while requiring and demanding servitude with little or no reward for the sometimes profound expressions of value that their “lessers” provided. Taika Waititi Admits He Directed ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Because He Was “Poor” And Thought “This Would Be A Great Opportunity To Feed These Children”Yet, when you choose to discover the particular future that calls to you uniquely to unfold and bring it into being … you are beyond flow, and living the full expression of who you are, and I’ll let the great mythologist, who was with me at the start of this part of my own journey, finish this for us … Stream It Or Skip It: 'Christmas at the Chalet' on Lifetime, Where Divorcée Teri Hatcher Explores Love, Purpose, and Skiing in Aspen

In full disclosure I have to admit I spent a not inconsiderable portion of my life pursing wealth in a way, and to a degree, that seems excessive now in retrospect. The seeming paradox, or contradiction of the desire to create and the willingness to accept things as they are, provides the necessary tension and energy required to express what you realize must already be possible, but has not yet been made so.The answer is more complicated than blaming either “cancel culture” or “ageism,” or whatever reason they placed in my personnel file when I lost that job in 2009, and it has now progressed into all corners of American society today. From the earliest time I can remember I was taught and inculcated to believe that life was economically organized, i.e.: a series of commitments and contracts based in a world of give and take, where the ideal is to wind up ahead in terms of what you’ve gotten for what you’ve given. This idea of “getting one’s needs met economically”seems to apply to almost every area of one’s life, with few exceptions (if any), and I’d argue leads to a life of profound dissatisfaction … a chronic longing for something more that remains unfulfilled for most even when others are busy covering their remains with the dirt from the hole excavated to house what’s left of them. Cher re-recorded the song for the closing credits of the 2004 remake of Alfie, but it was dropped in favour of a version by Joss Stone. [12] Charts [ edit ] Chart (1966)