Review
This is the best book I have ever read about values, money and abundance. It makes you look at . . . these things from a new perspective. (Lynne Franks – The Sunday Express )
“An inspired, utterly fascinating book….A book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.”—Jane Goodall This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money—earning it, spending it, and giving it away—can offer surprising insight …
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It one delightful, entertaining and meaningful book, Lynne Twist explains how to lead an abundant life that benefits you, your family AND the world. I read the hardcover edition more than three years and am still benefitting from it today. If this book were required reading, the world would be a place that works for everyone.
Are you in a life long struggle between money and the calling of your soul? Is money at odds with your most deeply held values, commitments, and ideals? Do you have an inner hunger to be authentic, to have a life of meaning, a life in which you can make a difference? If yes, then Lynne Twist’s “The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources” was written for you. As Deepak Chopra notes, “To anyone who wants to transform their lives and the world, I give this book my highest recommendation.”
Author Twist has found that there are striking commonalities across cultures in our basic human relationship with money and the way that relationship governs, dominates, and stresses our lives. In each culture, Twist has seen the powerful grip that money has on our lives, the wounds and hardship that it can impose, and the immense healing power of even the smallest amount of money when we use it to express our humanity – our highest ideals and our most soulful commitments and values.
“The Soul of Money” offers a way to “realign our relationship with money to be more truthful, free, and potent, enabling us to live a life of integrity and full self-expression consistent with our deepest core values, no matter what our financial circumstances. The book is not about turning away from money or simplifying expenditures, or doing budgets or financial planning, although the wisdom gained will be relevant to all those activities. This book is about living consciously, fully, and joyfully in our relationship with money, and learning to understand and embrace its flow. It is about using the unexamined portal of our relationship with money to deliver a widespread transformation in all aspects of our lives.”
Twist’s chief insight in “The Soul of Money” is that money isn’t inherently bad or good, but that used wisely, it has the power to transform both us and the world. The root of our problem with money , Twist suggests, is a fallacious mind set of scarcity, the belief that everything is in limited supply – not just money, but material goods, time, rest, exercise, power and love. It is rarely the actual amount of what you have, but how you use it, and appreciate it, that makes the difference in your prosperity. Whereas the mind set of scarcity drives competition, the mind set of sufficiency fosters collaboration; in which everyone’s unique ability to contribute is recognised, valued, and where the outcome is win-win. Twist views money as a resource that follows like water, circulating around the world and living diversed consequences in its wake. In this context, fundrising is about helping people to engage in their greatness through the effective flow of money. Money should help people to raise themselves to a level of self-sufficiency through a partnership based on mutual respect. In this way, our awareness of the healing effects of money is heightened.