I've lived in huge mansions as well as a simple tent on the beach. I've had times in which I easily saw four and five digit incomes a week and then years of little to nothing. All in all, I can say that the happiest and most precious points in my life were when I didn't have all the money & related trimmings. While money can open many doors and opportunities for us it is not the thing that makes us feel fulfilled or "rich" . . . there's a difference between being "rich" and being "wealthy" in this case; "Rich" refers to the person that has economic abundance coupled with a sense of humanism and moral balance. "Wealthy" refers to someone that has the money and who is possessed by the trappings money gives us and yet, they are empty within and not connected with the real world (like Mitt Romney)
No, I'm not talking political favorites here; Romney is simply a victim of his environment in that he was born with a silver spoon stuck in every orifice, he's never actually known what it means to work in the trenches and be a part of the "real" world vs. a life of privilege; social, political & economic advantage. As they say in 12-step groups "You Cannot Transmit Something You Haven't Got"; a person that's not lived a life dependent on drugs, booze or whatever other substance or destructive habit out there, cannot honestly relate to or be trusted by those that have. Romney and others that come from that kind of background will never understand those of us that have never known the benefits and advantages he has and now his own kids are perpetuating.
Back to the crux of things; money alone will not give you true happiness and worse, the love of money can and usually will corrupt you and on multiple levels, destroy you if you don't learn that "all that stuff" means little to nothing. This takes us back to another argument in this forum; the reason why certain types of people involved in the Spiritual & Metaphysical worlds (Psychics) will never participate in the so-called "Testing" every skeptics thinks they should eagerly volunteer for. To the more cynical type there's an assigned import given to the left brain conquest and so they are akin to those that only see the cash and related surroundings as being the thing that matters. The Psychic types (the one's that aren't in it for the sake of commerce & fame) are akin to the common human being that finds happiness even when surviving in the most difficult times of adversity. They are humble and generally modest human beings who value and honor the simplest of things in life and are not obsessed over carnal matters.
It's quite difficult for people, especially those of the Western European mind-set, to comprehend the idea of knowing Joy when you are "without" in that our culture promotes a very Masculine sense of drive -- He That Dies with the Most Toys WINS! -- which is light years away from the truth. Buddha "won" when he walked away from all worldly possessions as have many since his time. Money must have perspective as well as respect. We must understand the obligation affixed to money and live within the parameters of such standards if we are to know inner peace and a harmonious life. Money without works is dead. . . just as faith without commitment is empty -- a false thing.Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 23 Apr 2012, 23:20
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