What is behind the lust for money? Perhaps it’s:
- The greed to gain more and more of everything.
- The fear of being poor.
- The desire for prestige and honor in front of ones peers.
- The drive for power that comes with having money.
- The illusory comfort that says nothing bad can happen to me now.
- The feeling that wealth equals moral goodness and/or intellectual superiority.
Whatever is behind it, the danger of caring too much about money is you end up caring too little about value. I don’t mean value as in a bargain at the store. I am talking about what is of true value – relationships, creativity, art, love, mercy, compassion, trust, environment, justice, law, peace, knowledge, education and more.
Just remember, what you pay attention to is what you become. We can see the results all around us, for good and bad.
Pay attention to the good.
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