Acquisition – Page 9

For as long as

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs – not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression – they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material … Read more

Abundance is not a

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. Alan Cohen

People who acquire things

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. Ray Dalio

In a culture where

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and … Read more

Americans make money by

Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value. Akio Morita

Realisation is not acquisition

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage Ramana Maharshi

There is a realm

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Joy is everywhere; it

Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.
Rabindranath Tagore

The two operations of

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes