Money is not what we really want. What we want is freedom, joy, creativity, love, connection, community, energy, health, contribution, peace.
– The Illusion of Money
I realize that many books about money are only about the results. I know that it might sound backward to suggest that you don’t need to chase results to experience abundance, but what if chasing results is actually the thing that’s keeping us from experiencing real abundance? What if we’re starting to understand that believing we need any specific result is just a remnant of an old paradigm that thinks the results are more important than us? The results aren’t the magic; we’re the magic. We’re the source of any result that comes into our lives, so we can stop falling in love with results and start falling in love with ourselves.
– The Illusion of Money
… life’s highest calling for you might be to relax and live in a simple, humble way that allows your presence to powerfully impact each person you come into contact with…
– The Illusion of Money
Our endless desire for money (or fear of money) is often really a desire to be safe or to be seen by the world. This book is about eliminating the need to seek safety through the illusion of money and learning to see ourselves for the perfection that we are, beginning to bring our creative power to the world in an authentic way, and allowing ourselves to receive massive, true abundance in all areas as a byproduct.
– The Illusion of Money
money is any medium (even the no-space) onto which we attribute an idea or a quality such as security or freedom in such a way that this idea/quality appears to be transferrable, exchangeable and countable
– Peter Koenig
Separate money from approval, value, or self-worth. It’s a means of exchange. It’s a way to trade your art for others’.
– https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1355922650640642051
Money is a story
– Seth Godin
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
It is an entirely emotional reorientation when money is coloured with the story of the gift peter-limberg
No amount of money enables one to feel “fuck you”. It is a mental state.
Seems like "fuck you money" means to not have to interact with the world and people, instead of getting into a dynamic relationship with them
I wonder if fuck you money is also a desire to inoculate oneself against sociopaths, who are low-trust but are verisimilitudes of high-trust peter-limberg
Something I took away from Ole: “Fuck you money” implies an excessively individualistic ideology. Where your bank account becomes a substitute for trusting relationships. daniel-kazandjan
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
– Naval
https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1321501516570726403
Money cannot buy anything other than what's for sale: happiness is never for sale because happiness is a state of mind.
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