What is abundance or richness?

What is abundance or richness?
By Manfred Johannsenr
Most people think of things when you ask people about abundance or richness. However, at the most fundamental level it is not a thing. It is a feeling you have. It is a feeling of overflowing of happiness.
Without the sense of abundance in that sense of happiness, you will not feel abundance inside of you.
When you are connected to abundance, you are connected to your source or essence. Abundance is life before, after and ever and before your body. You must listen with attention. You must listen with your awareness. This is really what you are looking for. If you are looking for consciousness in this moment, you feel that you are alive.
It is apparently so obvious that you are alive and because it is so obvious, you do not notice it. It is like the fish in the ocean. The fish does not notice the water. You do not notice the silence and the space within everything is unfolding.
You cannot give it a name, because in the moment of labeling it with a name it is a concept. A mental concept you try to include in a little box of your mind and which you try to give form.
But it is not form. On the other hand it is the originator of all forms. Your mind cannot understand something which contains a paradox.
Look for your inner being. Everything comes from your sense of abundance. It comes from the inside and out. It comes from the formless to life and form.
Things never give you the fullness of life. The fullness of life is your feelings of fullness and abundance in the now and not in the future.
Find the place within you which is not a place, but where life is born all the time, but also unborn, TAO, or silence or whatever you may call in your own translation to get in contact with your inner essence of being. You may manifest everything in your life. You may visualize from the place of abundance everything.
However, even if you manifest everything or something, it is not the same as being happy. Happiness is connecting with the place where life pleases itself. A place where consciousness is conscious of itself.
You are life. That is happiness. It is a very quiet place within you and you must drop all thoughts about how to get there.