The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

Author:Lynne Twist
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

I love the dark hours of my being

in which my senses drop into the deep.

I have found in them, as in old letters,

My private life, that is already lived through,

And become wide and powerful now, like legends.

Then I know that there is room in me

For a second huge and timeless life.

The time had come for James’s second huge and timeless life.

BUDDHA’S WISDOM

Buddha told his followers that whatever they chose to give their attention, their love, their appreciation, their listening, and their affirmation to would grow in their life and in their world. He likened one’s life and the world to a garden—a garden that calls for sunlight and nourishment and water to grow. In that garden are the seeds of compassion, forgiveness, love, commitment, courage and all the qualities that affirm and inspire us. Alongside those seeds and in the same garden are the seeds of hatred, the seeds of prejudice, the seeds of vengeance, the seeds of violence, and all the other hurtful, destructive ways of being. These seeds and many more like them exist in the same garden.

The seeds that grow are the seeds we tend with our attention. Our attention is like water and sunshine, and the seeds we cultivate will grow and fill our garden. If we choose to invest our attention in the seeds of scarcity—acquisition, accumulation, greed, and all that springs from those seeds—then scarcity is what will fill the space of our life and the space of our world. If we tend the seeds of sufficiency with our attention, and use our money like water to nourish them with soulful purpose, then we will enjoy that bountiful harvest.

The Magnificent Seven and the Bangladeshis, Audrey and James couldn’t be more different. But for each of them, the power of appreciation enabled them to expand and deepen their experience of their true wealth and self. In the context of sufficiency, they each found a new freedom in their relationship with money or issues around money, and in that, a path to their own prosperity. For any of us, in the fertile soil of our appreciation, new possibility takes root, and it grows without limits in the lasting light of our attention.

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