“The normal mode of obtaining one's supply is by following some useful business or profession in which one should be happy and satisfied, doing good work and receiving a liberal compensation for it. [Inquiry] will put anyone into such a position if he does not already possess it, and then if he [inquires] each day as he should, realizing [his or her] true place, and claiming opportunities for service, his actual position, whatever it is, will be continually improving as time goes on. Of course this does not mean that one need necessarily "go [into] business," as it is called. The woman taking care of her household duties at home is just as useful a citizen as anyone in the land; and many people whose private incomes put them beyond the need of earning money, lead lives of the highest usefulness in developing literature and art, and in other activities. What is certain is that no one [engaged in honest inquiry into the truth of their being] will lead the life of an idler, however much money he may have.”
- Emmet Fox:”Sermon On The Mount” p. 105:
Note: Fox’s references above to “scientific prayer” are replaced with Byron Katie’s notion of “inquiry” which is a secular notion that, to me, appears to be perfectly synonymous with with “scientific prayer.”