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We can deplete and take, accumulate and hold, or we can nourish, share, allocate, and spend consciously and contribute.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
In that new way of seeing, the flow of resources in our lives, rather than being something that is constantly escaping our grasp or diminishing, instead becomes a flood of nourishment and something we have the privilege of being trustees of for the moment.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
We find sufficiency and sustainable prosperity when we think of our resources as a flow that is meant to be shared, when we put our full attention on making a difference with what we have, and when we partner with others in ways
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
now to retire traditional charity as we’ve known it, and in its place create partnerships in which a shared vision
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
It could be said that a great fund-raiser is a broker for the sacred energy of money, helping people use the money that flows through their lives in the most useful way that is consistent with their aspirations and hopes for humanity.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
Leave them with an understanding that money flows in and out, that it should do that, and that it is a privilege to be able to direct the flow toward their highest commitments. Leave them with an understanding, evident in your life, that if you turn your appreciation to your inner resources, there is no lack of what you need to meet the challenge o
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a dream that is actually a dangerous trance, a dream that is on automatic pilot: the dream of acquiring and accumulating ever more in the face of limited fixed resources, a dream that all growth is good, regardless of the human and environmental costs. They may be asking us to look at what our trance or dream is doing to us and the world we live in
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the power we each have to honor our highest commitments and create opportunities for money to flow to us and through us to support that work. Their contribution of money, and ours, was not large