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Finding Balance and Opportunity in Economic Crisis and Uncertain Times
March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: Kathleen Daniel
As a veteran global fund-raiser for the Hunger Project, consultant to the Nobel Women’s Initiative to leverage the influence of women Nobel Peace Laureates to advance peace, justice, and equality, and as a trustee of the Fetzer Institute, whose mission is to foster awareness of love and forgiveness and the power of letting go, Lynne Twist has long observed how our relationship to money governs, dominates, and stresses each of our lives. Her Soul of Money Institute is dedicated to helping people find peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money. The video excerpt (below) provides an empowering perspective on how to see what’s unraveling all around us: “We’re living in a time when the economic system, the money system itself, the markets are unraveling …. It’s is a very frightening time … {but it’s important to} recognize that what is unraveling is that which has no viability. What is unraveling is that which is not sustainable. … If we can see that what’s happening is a truing, is a recalibration, it helps us see how to deal with it on a personal basis. It’s a difficult time…{and} it can also be a beautiful time. Because … we can move towards thrift rather than accumulation; we can move toward appreciating what we love rather than being afraid of what we’ve lost. We can focus our attention and intention not on what we’re losing, but on what we already have that’s so valuable and nourishing to us. And we can stop clamoring for more of what we don’t really need and take care of what we have.”
For more on Lynne Twist’s perspective on the origins and purpose of money and the source of our upset about it, as well as her Unleashing the Soul of Money: Finding Sufficiency, Freedom and Purpose and Through Your Relationship with Money audio workshop, click here.
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