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- Money as a Spiritual Asset
- Sri Aurobindo
there is a power that sees by identity and intuition and gives to all these things such truth and such certainty and stability as they are able to compass.
Money is Love
I did not say love is money. But I did say money is love. Where you put it, how you earn it, what you expect from it reflects more about you than anything else in your life.
Corinne McLaughlin says Money is an energy that communicates between all things material and facilitates human relationships. It’s a way to examine how well we’re applying our values—such as fairness and honesty-- in all our transactions.
I first ran into this concept in 1999 when my husband and I moved our family to Boulder. A workshop was held at a local church and the concept captured my imagination.
I grew up conflicted about money. On the one hand, my Lutheran church taught me that money was evil and it was more difficult for a rich man to enter heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
On the other, I was being told that "they" said toilet paper should be set in the roll so that the paper fed from the outside and not the inside. "They" said redheads shouldn't wear pink. And proper young girls didn't pull themselves up to the top rail of the swing set and practice spitting. All the folk making these rules- that proverbial they- were rich.
I developed the notion that rich people were rich because God smiled more favorably upon them and therefore they got to make the rules about how to live life.
Little did I know that it was in fact man's transactions that create this illusion. Where man distributes money is where the money goes, after all. And when Wall Street is the end all and be all- another phrase that popped up from my childhood- well, love of money is reflected in who dictates who is monetarily rewarded.
This has nothing to do with money.
- Warren Buffett Gurus Stock Holdings, Investment Philosophies and News -- GuruFocus.com
GuruFocus tracks the stock buys, sells and commentaries of stock investment gurus such as Warren Buffett, George Soros, the best investors. - The Tartan Online : The \'bigger is better\' myth
GM is a culture of excess, of mammoth proportions and corner-cutting engineering.
Money Gurus
This has everything to do with money gurus and what they have put before us as valuable and worthy. Big homes, big breasts, Big Macs, big corporations...
the bigger the better!
J.T. Trollman on The Tartan Online writes, "...if there’s anything in American culture that screams to be fixed, it’s the bigger is better mentality that affects not only our consumers, but our corporations too."
The fact that Google cites nearly 3 million results when I google money gurus illustrates how confused we've become about money and love.
The word guru comes from the Sanskrit Gu, darkness, and Ru, light (prakash); and literally means a preceptor who shows others knowledge (light) and destroys ignorance (darkness). (wikipedia).
How is it that we attribute money gurus the ability to bring us from darkness into the light?
Where we put our money reflects our love
There's been a lot of discussion in Hubs around my vicinity regarding school violence. Some wish to put the entire blame on parents. From my perspective, it should come as no surprise that
1. Mothers choose to work outside the home.
2. Kids feel devalued in our society.
Anyone who is a stay at home Mom OR DAD recognizes the devaluing veil that falls over the face of inquisitive strangers when your answer to that defining question, "What do you do?" shoves you into the non-entity category. My husband's favorite phrase is, "Get a job."
This comment raises my hackles and attacks my psyche each time it is uttered. And these are words from someone who loves me. If this is how someone who loves me responds to my working inside the home, others are even more harsh in their responses.
So, why would any mother or father in their right mind stay home with their little ones when they could make twice as much money and get more kudos letting someone else raise them?
Which brings me to my second point. Teachers from preschool to high school are underpaid because we do not value what it is they do. If we don't value the work of parents parenting their own children, why would we possibly value the work of others who do?
In other words, we give lip service to loving our kids. We don't put our money where our mouths are. When a college student chooses to teach or counsel or advocate for kids-- or with the elderly-- this student consciouslysteps off the upwardly mobile grid.
But you know all this
All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are trustees, not possessors. It is with them today, tomorrow it may be elsewhere. All depends on the way they discharge their trust while it is with them, in what spirit, with what consciousness in their use of it, to what purpose.
Sri Aurobindo
I am the left eye and so are you.
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Karen, I have not seen this movie. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention. I will have to find it somewhere. My friend Denise and I can watch it together- watch it and weep, lol. Isn't that what weak women do after all, hah. Ah, here it is under the title Who's Counting: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/who.html
OH, I see that it is also a book. It is referenced here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_20
Thanks again! I don't consider myself a feminist but I guess in terms of what I do for a non-living, I perhaps am.
Thanks for clarifying this distinction
Fish, you are the clarification king, so I appreciate the comment!
I have seen the truth and it was spoken by Storyteller. Thanks again
Whether you stay at home or go out to make money should always be a purely individual choice - don't let others judge you for it. I opted out of the mainstream to work out of home, and the fact that I might make more money working at a job outside the home isn't enough incentive for me to change my lifestyle. :)
Yet another great hub Storytellersrus. I'm glad you realise there are some dads too who get stuck at home. Each one's situation is a bit different and he/she has to adapt and perform a fine balancing act between the needs of the family and the desire to achieve something in the material world..
I feel money is just printed paper. Any value that it has lies in its purchasing power, nothing else. One need not give it more imporatnce than that. As they say, empty handed we come, empty handed we go.
It's so great to have company online. I hear you all and I respect your comments. Thanks so much.
I love the straightforward way you put this across. Money really is just printed paper, and yet it represents so much more. In economics I was taught the term 'opportunity cost', and I prefer to think in those terms rather than in terms of pounds and dollars. The opportunity cost of me bringing up my own children has probably been the chance of a bigger, smarter home and a bigger, smarter car, and perhaps some more exotic holiday destinations. However, I've never missed my children's milestones. I heard their first words, saw their first steps, attended nativities, school concerts and swimming galas. Everything else is just transitory, but my memories will stay with me forever, and are beyond price.
Well said, Amanda. Thanks so much for your insight, as usual.
@jaspel ... dads "stuck" at home? I take exception to that :o)
Great hub, as you can imagine I agree with most of it ... but ...
Teachers being underpaid is a myth created by the NEA ... should they be paid more for the exceptional and important work they do? Yes, but they do not live in squalor :)
jfx
housedad, that dad language is between you and jaspel! But I have to say I did wince when I read that particular choice of words jaspel :).
And yes, teachers do not live in squalor, but compared to the $42.4 million dollar severance pay earned by Carly Fiorina for POOR PERFORMANCE after Hewlett Packard's board concluded she "hadn't boosted their sagging stock or its fortunes after the company's merger with Compaq Computer", well, $42,000 a year doesn't sound like very much, haha. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teach
No offence meant there at all, Housedad! I am sorry if my choice of a word has caused any angst.
While writing that comment, I was referring to my situation in an oblique manner. Money has its use and it certainly helps smoothen the journey of life. But caring for and nurturing one's children is of far greater importance than accumulating wealth.
THANK YOU! Thank you for the plain way you said this and for saying it at all. I am so sick of being judged only by my financial worth. I think the way we look at money in the US has turned into a sickness. We need to popularize the concept of 'right livelihood' here. Not "how can I make money," but "what is my work, what am I here to do?" We're way to far into extracting profit and not enough into adding value.
Kids do what you do not what you say. If you are outside the home making money and no one is home doing ordinary things and teaching them how to cook, clean, think, read, sew, debate--then they get the message only money matters. That's why we are where we are right now. Great hub!
Money is love.
However, now money has turned human into beast where they kill each other in order to have this green paper notes. I'm not saying that money is bad, it's just that human have forgotten the love nature they have inside and the point out that money is the problem. It's insane but it's happening.
Thanks sharing this.
We are all born peniless and graduate from life peniless.
What does the seventy some odd years on average really matter in the end? Even ($100 billion X 77 years) / eternity = a very small number. The trick seems to be rich not in this life, but in the eternal life. The eternal money is love and can make you happy.
Second thought:
Thank goodness for parents, both earthly and spiritually. Just as earthly parents can give greater gifts than money to their children, we can be given much more of value from heaven. God doesn't send his kids to daycare.
Interesting hub.
I noticed you posted a comment on another hub that was about making money on e-lance. You said that it was hard to navigate (somewhat true) but the thing that stood out to me is your perception on what it is of value that you have to offer. Just the very fact that you knowhow to set up a Hub could be your ticket to making money.
Remember for every little task you know how to do online there are a thousand or more people who have no idea how to do it.
I have friends who make money on e-lance by simply typing voice recordings into text using notepad.
There is always someone out there willing to pay you for something you know how to do online that they do not. If you enjoy making hubs you could simply post an ad "Need a Hub" and offer whatever services you want with that and people will bid. The more ads you post the more likely it is you will get a job. It is easy to get a small 50-100 dollar 1 day job on e-lance within 24 hours.
Just thought I would toss that out there for you and anyone else who reads your hubs. There is plenty of money to be made. Understand with everything that you know how to do, there is someone else out there that has no clue. That makes you the expert and the authority. You just have to see it before you expect anyone else to!
Have a Super Fantastic Wonderful Day!
Scott Manesis
Blake, great to have you visit as always! How are things going for you?
Scott, you really hit the mark with this comment on this day. I have got to get on e-lance and figure this out. Things are getting tighter and tighter around here, lol! Thank SO MUCH for your encouragement.
What a great hub. Money is only a tool for the realization of a more fulfilled life not the goal. I have often heard many a successful person say that money should never flow to you but threw you. Our preoccupation with money in America certainly is disturbing but the truth is we also live in a nation where more and more those without the money are struggling just to survive. I think that we need to build a healthy money consciousness, and start to see it for what it can do not what it is. After all i don't want the money itself but the freedom it will enable me to pursue.
Good points, Scott.Life. Thanks for making me think about it a bit more.
brilliant hub! calling a spade a spade...I so enjoy reading people who are so direct and honest in their views. thank you for sharing!
Thank YOU mow!
110% true that teachers are underpaid and we do not value their work......sad but true
I certainly value their work, as (obviously) do you! I guess we can help by letting those who teach our children understand how much... Thanks for the observation, JSi.
that's very true. You have represent a very logical and reasonable view of money.
Why thank you, scheng1. I wish I could read something you have written so that I could understand more about your perspective. Let me know when you write a hub!
Karen Banes says:
5 months ago
Wonderful hub. Have you ever seen the film 'If Women Counted' by Marilyn Waring? Incredibly interesting take on the way women's work is seen as having 'no value' because it does not generate money into the economy, Examples of things that do 'count' include divorce, war and environmental disasters - all generate economic activity - but certainly not raising human beings.