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You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Your appetite for novelty and your fear of missing out sucks the joy out of you—the more you eat, the hungrier you are. The more you spend, the more vapid you feel. You lack spirit, not another fashion identity. You don’t need another aesthetic, you need stronger values.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
You're overspending because you lack values
Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".
Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
“All desire is a desire for
being.
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being.
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Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
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This is the mindset that will make you waste your life away into bags of garbage: the idea that shopping is a material issue, and overconsumption is a budgeting problem, rather than a spiritual problem.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence. This is why Marie Kondo’s “spark joy” test is great: it reframes... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters... See more