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.

money is debt
spirituality of money
- instead of horted
  - traded?
  - gift-economy
relation of sovereignty with money
- people often think is that we need first money
- how does risk relate to that
quotes on FY money
- 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

On making money

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

Don't ask 'how do I make people pay me?' ask 'how do I let people pay me?'
what is the easiest thing you can try? what's the smallest number of steps between where you are now and where someone else has a chance to pay you for something?
you probably have psychological issues about money that will cost you so long as they are unexamined
give away as much as you can for free, earn a reputation for generosity
do it with friends. set personal goals and have an accountabilibuddy to check in with regularly
revenue from sales is infinitely cooler than other kinds of money e.g. donations, investment, debt, grants, or wages
this thread earned me $30 in the last hour. I repeat my conjecture that you are probably thinking too much and testing too little.
find business peers and mentors who share some of your values and life experiences
practice thinking in terms of relationships instead of things.
stop reading this thread and go do the simplest next step on the shortest possible path to your Buy Now button

Money cannot buy anything other than what's for sale: happiness is never for sale because happiness is a state of mind.

continue at min. 48

J.D. Rockefeller, when asked how much money would make him content: “Just a little bit more”
if you are trying to be secure/at-ease with money you are going to be chronically insecure
two options is to be able to be secure/at-ease with money and also to be unsecure/no-at-ease with money
- depending on your situation both are very helpful

On making money

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