
The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

In an aggressive consumer culture like ours, where the financial worth of everyone and everything is the dominant theme, it takes some courage to stand for something different.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
take a stand for higher human values. Money carries the power and intention we give it.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
From the very beginning, money was invented to facilitate the sharing and exchanging of goods and services among individuals and groups of people. Money still facilitates the sharing and exchange of goods and services, but somewhere along the way the power we gave money outstripped its original utilitarian role.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
CONVERSATION CREATES THE CONTEXT OF LIFE We think we live in the world. We think we live in a set of circumstances, but we don’t. We live in our conversation about the world and our conversation about the circumstances. When we’re in a conversation about fear and terror, about revenge and anger and retribution, jealousy and envy and comparison, the
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The money culture has shaped us in many ways that we would not choose in a more conscious soulful process, driving us such that we unwittingly undermine and erode those most deeply human values and highest commitments, and at times turn away from the very ones we profess to hold dear.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
Reciprocity was the social currency.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
In the mind-set of scarcity, even too much is not enough.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
than. They lived (and still do) in the experience and expression of enough, or what I call sufficiency.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.