I completely agree with what you've said here @thespacebetween. But I feel there is a subtlety in this that we need to really look at- and that is the difference between the very "New Age" thinking that everything is a reflection of ourselves/thoughts/desires- which quickly turns into the blame game of, as you said above "tell a homeless person they just aren't thinking positively enough" - and it's cousin "YOU are creating this reality", and the realization of the PROGRAMMING that is the CAUSE of "have not" mentality. We live in a "HAVE NOT" society that is programmed, very deliberately, for LACK. This is not a "choice" we make, it is a choice that is made for us by someone else.
As I said in a comment above, when we recognize this programming and realize that we actually CAN move beyond it.... that is the start of something amazing and new. And yes, even the homeless person, when s/he is given a hand up, regardless of social/political/religious programming, can move beyond this LACK . There are countless stories of "homeless" people making radical changes for their communities, doing amazing things to help others. In my opinions, these are the ones that are breaking the programming, and DOING something to create CHANGE. How? Because they change the way they think.

And THIS is the massive switchover in thinking, from concentrating on the foundation of "lack" (or negativity), to thinking about "abundance" (in whatever way that means to that individual) or "Positive" "optimistic" thinking.
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