“The universe has more than enough business and wealth for everyone—way more than enough.”
“I d rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.”
“Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.”
“The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.”
“Earning money from, and supporting, a system that keeps these people in poverty in the first place and then gives them some of the profits in the form of strings-attached aid or World Bank and IMF loans is no more ridiculous than Shell or Esso giving Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth £10,000 to help clear up the destruction that they inevitably cause. Would it not be better not to cause the destruction in the first place?”
“Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.”
“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it’s not just me.”
“The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One s focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’!”
“People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!”
“Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.”
“We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.”
“It s easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference”
“To make people feel special you don t have to pay money but rather pay attention.”
“Is it not necessary to eat? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? They are necessary. In the same way, money is also required. Just as one does not have to think about going to the toilet; it happens automatically, in the same way, money comes without you having to think about it.”
“Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one’s responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.”
“There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”
“Tafuta kitu cha kufanya katika maisha yako unachokiamini zaidi kuliko pesa, kutoa sauti kwa ajili ya watu wasioweza kusikika kwa mfano, na ukishakipata kuwa kiongozi na mkarimu kwa wengine. Kutoa sauti kwa ajili ya watu wasioweza kusikika inaweza kuwa ndiyo nafasi yako uliyopangiwa na Mungu uitumie kwa manufaa ya wengine, si kwa manufaa yako, nafasi za wengine zitatumika kwa manufaa yako. Kuna vitu vingi ambavyo mtu anaweza kufanya; chagua kimoja kinacholeta maana zaidi katika maisha yako na ukifanye hicho, kwa nguvu zako zote.”