Say goodbye to greed and adopt 'just enough' as the new route to prosperity.
It is simple to come up with aphorisms about money, frets Steven Harrison in ‘Doing Nothing: Coming to the end of the spiritual search’ (www.wisdomtreeindia.com).
“Books are sold by the millions that teach people how to be ‘money machines,’ how to ‘attract money,’ how to be a ‘money magnet’ and so forth. The authors of these books prove their point by their own example, by selling the books. They do not understand money, they understand greed.”
Greed is the answer for our individual wants, separated from the world around us, the author observes. If we want to satisfy our greed and compulsions, we must abandon the quiet, where enough is sufficient, and we must adopt the world of thought of division, where we can manipulate reality, bending it to our material desires. “We hope that we can acquire more and more, until we are full. Then we will be done, then we will have it all. But, we can never be full, we can only consume.”
Instead, why not discover ‘just enough’ as an alternative to ‘prosperity consciousness,’ Harrison invites. Enough is a response to our life, not to our greed, self-centredness, cravings, and compulsions, he describes. “We actually have enough and need nothing more than just enough. Our actual requirements are really just to be still, to love, to relate…”
Fascinating study.
It is simple to come up with aphorisms about money, frets Steven Harrison in ‘Doing Nothing: Coming to the end of the spiritual search’ (www.wisdomtreeindia.com).
“Books are sold by the millions that teach people how to be ‘money machines,’ how to ‘attract money,’ how to be a ‘money magnet’ and so forth. The authors of these books prove their point by their own example, by selling the books. They do not understand money, they understand greed.”
Greed is the answer for our individual wants, separated from the world around us, the author observes. If we want to satisfy our greed and compulsions, we must abandon the quiet, where enough is sufficient, and we must adopt the world of thought of division, where we can manipulate reality, bending it to our material desires. “We hope that we can acquire more and more, until we are full. Then we will be done, then we will have it all. But, we can never be full, we can only consume.”
Instead, why not discover ‘just enough’ as an alternative to ‘prosperity consciousness,’ Harrison invites. Enough is a response to our life, not to our greed, self-centredness, cravings, and compulsions, he describes. “We actually have enough and need nothing more than just enough. Our actual requirements are really just to be still, to love, to relate…”
Fascinating study.
