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RICHES ARE YOUR RIGHT
This is a book full of powerful affirmations for Health; Wealth, Relationships, and Self-Expression. The idea behind these techniques is pretty simple. Most of us grow up learning to put ourselves down for any real or imagined error. We grow up believing certain things about ourselves or comparing ourselves negatively to others. The use of positive affirmations is a technique to change that negative self-talk into something more positive. Since we've spent many years on the negative image it's unreasonable to expect an instant effect from affirmations, but if we stick to it for a few days, with honesty, trust, and belief, then results will start to happen.
234 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 7, 2009
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Joseph Murphy
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Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.
Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.
In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.
Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.
Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.
In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.
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February 5, 2026
I read a soft copy of Riches Are Your Right largely because the title was impossible to ignore. Who doesn’t want to understand the idea that wealth and abundance might be a rightful part of life rather than something to struggle endlessly for?
Early on, I found myself conflicted. Dr. Murphy’s interpretation of scripture often diverges sharply from traditional Christian teaching. His approach leans heavily on metaphor and metaphysical symbolism, suggesting that many biblical writers were speaking in coded language rather than literal terms. For readers deeply rooted in orthodox theology, this can feel unsettling and, at times, controversial. I admit I questioned how confidently one could claim insight into the original intent of biblical authors.
Still, curiosity won. I chose not to disengage simply because the framework challenged familiar beliefs.
Read properly, this is not a theological manual but a philosophy of mindset and subconscious alignment. Dr. Murphy’s central argument is that our subconscious beliefs — especially about money, worth, and success — quietly shape our outcomes. He supports this with anecdotal accounts from clients and patients he worked with, illustrating how internal narratives can either block or invite abundance.
One story that stayed with me, particularly as an author, involved a talented writer who struggled financially despite her skill. Her issue, Murphy suggested, was not ability but belief: she subconsciously viewed money as something unclean and believed her work should not be done for financial reward. Through affirmations and mental re-conditioning, she reframed money as fair exchange — compensation for value that uplifts and serves others — and her circumstances reportedly changed.
Whether one accepts every claim or not, the book raises an important question: how many of our financial limitations are reinforced not by lack of opportunity, but by inherited attitudes toward money itself?
This book works best when read with discernment — not as literal doctrine, but as a reflective guide on the power of belief, self-talk, and internal alignment. It will resonate strongly with readers open to metaphysical thinking and personal responsibility, and may provoke healthy tension for those grounded in more traditional frameworks.
Either way, it invites introspection — and that alone makes it worth reading.
In other words, “What we permit ourselves to believe quietly shapes the life we experience publicly.”
Early on, I found myself conflicted. Dr. Murphy’s interpretation of scripture often diverges sharply from traditional Christian teaching. His approach leans heavily on metaphor and metaphysical symbolism, suggesting that many biblical writers were speaking in coded language rather than literal terms. For readers deeply rooted in orthodox theology, this can feel unsettling and, at times, controversial. I admit I questioned how confidently one could claim insight into the original intent of biblical authors.
Still, curiosity won. I chose not to disengage simply because the framework challenged familiar beliefs.
Read properly, this is not a theological manual but a philosophy of mindset and subconscious alignment. Dr. Murphy’s central argument is that our subconscious beliefs — especially about money, worth, and success — quietly shape our outcomes. He supports this with anecdotal accounts from clients and patients he worked with, illustrating how internal narratives can either block or invite abundance.
One story that stayed with me, particularly as an author, involved a talented writer who struggled financially despite her skill. Her issue, Murphy suggested, was not ability but belief: she subconsciously viewed money as something unclean and believed her work should not be done for financial reward. Through affirmations and mental re-conditioning, she reframed money as fair exchange — compensation for value that uplifts and serves others — and her circumstances reportedly changed.
Whether one accepts every claim or not, the book raises an important question: how many of our financial limitations are reinforced not by lack of opportunity, but by inherited attitudes toward money itself?
This book works best when read with discernment — not as literal doctrine, but as a reflective guide on the power of belief, self-talk, and internal alignment. It will resonate strongly with readers open to metaphysical thinking and personal responsibility, and may provoke healthy tension for those grounded in more traditional frameworks.
Either way, it invites introspection — and that alone makes it worth reading.
In other words, “What we permit ourselves to believe quietly shapes the life we experience publicly.”
April 14, 2022
Dr. Murphy did it again! Every work in his backlog is superb! Riches are your Right literally feels like the Bill of Rights but for Divine Law and Order. This book, to me, is just as important as knowing your rights and should be in everyone's pocket. Riches are your Right is required reading for life.
December 30, 2021
The power of positive affirmations and tapping into your personal power, comes to light in this book. The book itself is an affirmation that speaks abundance of richness in love, self-expression, confidence, wealth, divine-consciousness and health.
October 24, 2022
A book that I would keep as my personal spiritual guide for the rest of my life.There are many anecdotes that inspire faith and courage in the weakest hearts. I would recommend it to anyone who seeks a kind and true greater power and to anyone who wishes to make the best of their lives .
May 26, 2021
Powerful self-help guide
February 16, 2022
To practice the principles in this book requires a lot of courage and determination. Practicing the principles in this book turns into spiritual beings with success and results.
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