True Wealth

The universe likes you, it wants to help you, just get out of the way

You’ve been told wealth is numbers. You’ve been told security is a balance sheet. You’ve been told to fear not having enough.

And yet—every breath you take is free. The sun shows up on schedule. Water still falls from the sky. Seeds still turn into food. Your body still heals cuts while you sleep.

So which is actually real?

The Inversion

Somewhere along the line, we flipped the definition of wealth upside down.

Real wealth is what sustains life: air, water, food, energy, shelter, land, community, and the living awareness that experiences it all. Those things come first. They always have.

Money came later. It’s a symbol, a ledger, a way to keep score of exchanges. Useful at times, yes. But it is not the source. It’s a shadow of the source.

The modern system took the shadow and crowned it king. Then it built a maze around the basics and charged admission to what used to be freely given.

That’s the inversion.

What You Already Have

Look around you. Even in a tight season, the fundamentals are still here:

• Air in your lungs

• Light on your skin

• Water available somewhere nearby

• Soil that can grow food

• People who can cooperate when they choose to

These are not small things. These are the foundation of existence.

When you see this clearly, fear loses some of its grip. You start to realize that life is not primarily a struggle to earn permission to exist. Life is a field you are already standing in.

The Field Is Friendly

Here’s the part people forget: the universe is not set up to sabotage you.

Call it nature, Source, the field—doesn’t matter. The larger system tends toward growth, repair, and renewal. Wounds close. Forests return. Bodies adapt. Minds learn.

When you stop fighting that current and start moving with it, things often get easier.

You don’t force a plant to grow. You give it the right conditions and get out of the way.

Same principle.

Getting Out of the Way

What blocks the flow isn’t the universe—it’s the interference we add:

• constant fear loops

• the belief that you are separate and unsupported

• the idea that everything must be controlled or hoarded

• the habit of ignoring what your body and environment are telling you

“Getting out of the way” doesn’t mean doing nothing. It means:

• paying attention to what actually works in your life

• aligning your actions with what sustains you

• simplifying where you can

• cooperating with others when it’s natural

• letting go of the story that you’re on your own in a hostile system

When the noise drops, the next step usually becomes obvious.

Practical Abundance

You don’t have to wait for a global reset to live closer to real wealth.

You can start where you are:

• grow even a small amount of your own food

• learn one skill that produces something useful

• trade or share with a neighbor

• reduce dependence on systems that don’t serve you

• keep some tangible reserves (food, tools, basics)

• take care of your body so it can take care of you

These aren’t grand gestures. They’re simple moves that reconnect you to the source of wealth instead of the symbol.

The Self as Wealth

There’s one more layer most people miss.

Your awareness—your ability to perceive, choose, create, and care—is itself a form of wealth. Without it, nothing else has meaning. With it, you can navigate almost anything.

When you remember that, you stop outsourcing your sense of worth to external measures.

You are not just a consumer in an economy.

You are a participant in a living system.

Scarcity Is a Story

Scarcity has its place—resources can be limited in certain conditions. But as a constant worldview, it becomes a trap.

If you believe there is never enough, you will act from fear even when there is. You’ll miss opportunities, ignore support, and overlook the resources already in front of you.

When you shift to noticing what is available, you start to see options you couldn’t see before.

That’s not magic. That’s perception.

The Direction of Travel

The direction is simple:

From abstraction back to reality.
From fear back to function.
From isolation back to connection.
From control back to cooperation with the larger system.

You don’t have to fix the whole world. You just have to bring your own life back into alignment with what actually sustains it.

That’s where real security lives.

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Bottom line: Real wealth is already here. The system that tells you otherwise profits from your doubt. The universe is not against you—it’s been supporting you since your first breath.

Let it.

Addendum — Be Here Now

The past and the future can be useful for planning and memory—but they can also become tricksters. They pull your attention away from the only place you can actually act: right now.

Bring your awareness back to where your feet are planted.

Right here—in this breath, in this moment—is where life is happening. This is where you can choose, adjust, create, or rest. The present moment is not small. It’s the only place anything real can occur.

When your attention settles here:

• your body can respond and regulate

• your mind gets clearer

• the next practical step becomes visible

• small opportunities show up that you would have missed while worrying about “what if”

You don’t have to erase memory or ignore the future. Just don’t live there. Use them as tools, then return to the present.

Think of it this way:

The past is a record.
The future is a possibility.
The present is your point of power.

Stand in it. Work from it. Rest in it.

That’s where real change happens.

—Lone Wolf 🐺

References

• Clif High — Substack Essays & Videos

• Walter Russell — The Nature of Reality

• Richard Berry — Supreme Consciousness Is Primary

• Baba Ram Dass — Be Here Now Paperback – October 12, 1978

• Bhagavad Gita — Chapter 7 (Prakriti and the elements of nature)