Category: Money
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The Art of Wasting Potential
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power … If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn’t use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That’s why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities. Marie-Louise von Franz…
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When the Economy No Longer Serves Humanity…Create a New One
The economy was created to serve humanity, humanity was not created to serve the economy.
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A Friend in Need
They say a friend in need is a friend indeedOr is it a friend in deedMeaning a friend is one who acts as oneWhen another friend’s in need Or maybe it’s the former oneWe’re friends when we’re in wantBut otherwise we give no others thoughtJust to make it blunt But perhaps it is more gray…
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If Time Is Money, They’re Both Lies
For my class in Christian Ethics some years ago, I had to read the book, The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber. It is one of those books from the early part of the 20th Century ( I’m talking 1904-5) that can depress a thinking person because it shows that…
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How Certain Material “Miracles” Become Distractions
Nothing used to annoy me more than the preachers of the Prosperity Gospel. I felt like they were turning Christ’s message of faith into something you could find on an infomercial. It seemed like money and “blessings” were the only things on their minds and like any other pyramid system it was the people on…
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Get Rich or Try Dying
Picture this. You’re watching a commercial for luxury cruise travel. It shows happy rich people clinking together champagne glasses, dancing, and dining on the finest foods. The ad implores you not to settle for less. After all, when you travel, you deserve the best. You start trying to project the image of yourself into the…
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There Is No Loss
Today on our way home from CT we decided to stop into the Mohegan Sun Casino. Now this might sound weird, but whenever I go to a casino I take it as an opportunity to consciously watch my thoughts as they relate to money and to learn life lessons. Oh money you deceiver, you maker…
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