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“Greed and fear of scarcity are being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using.”
Yes, by it's very definition money automatically sets us up for lack, automatically creates the dual dimension of rich and poor, have and have nots, and the most sad of all - the powerful and the powerless. That which we use everyday undermines our good intentions. Me included…of course. I pay the rent, fill up the gas tank, and get food too! All with a low-grade (yet extremely common) sense of devalue. “I am less compaired to Oprah to Bill Gates to the president, etc.” On a scale of 1-10, lets see, today I'd put Oprah as a 10 and me as a 2.
I notice how I automatically function “where the rubber meets the road” at this 10-2 scale. But the idealistic (or spiritual?) part of me knows better. It knows that not only is it a 10-10 scale, but that there really isn't a scale at all. Or, if the scale is 10-10, then what use is there to even have a scale in the first place? (Sounds like a line in WTBDWK?!)
Of course what I am exploring here is me somehow coming to grips with a sense of authentic empowerment. There's a part of me that knows that even though it is normal for a human being to feel “less than” or depowered, I sense that there is a reality where it is natural for a human being to feel equal to others and empowered within ourselves!
“Within ourselves” is key I feel. For even though money empowers us TO exchange (and is external to us), like putting on some new clothes, personal empowerment has nothing to do with anything or anyone external. It is an internal fact.
I just thought of a quote by Robert Ingersoll that I'd like to paraphrase - If we are empowered, it is a fact of nature, not a matter of belief.
Mark
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