Cut Back Your Spending Now.

The World Of Money, Of Numbers And Stock Markets And Interest Rates And Credit Cards, Seems On The Surface About As Far As It Could Be From The World Of Spirituality, Of Seeking Meaningful Answers To The Big Questions Of Life. ... But These Two Worlds Must Flow In And Out Of Each Other, Because It Takes Both Money And Spiritual Understanding To Sustain It. Truly Speaking, What Determines Where Our Money With Its Awesome Power Will Go, And What It Will Do For Ourselves And Others? If We Listen, Those Answers Come From The Center Of Our Being, From Who We Really Are.

Everybody In America Started To Define Themselves By All These Things They Had Around Them. And All Of A Sudden It Came Tumbling Down. So The Old American Dream Has Died, And That Is A Good Thing.

Cut Back Your Spending Now.

Here's My Gift-giving Rule: Respect Your Current Financial Situation.

When It Comes To Money, If You Have It, You May Feel That You Don't Deserve It—guilt. If You Don't Have It, You May Feel That You Should Have It—guilt.