Keep the score. See the hunger under it.

Pay what you owe. Keep enough to live. That is the materialist truth of money, and it is not optional. What the reading adds is the next fact: the race for more does not close the distance from yourself.

In the reading

You want wealth. Why? Perhaps because from childhood you were told that the one who has wealth is the one who is successful. You want to be famous. Why? Because you were told that many people knowing you is your worth. You want to get ahead of others. Why? Because comparison has become the language of your life.

And when you have finished the whole race, one day you suddenly find that the destination you were running toward has, on arrival, the same emptiness within. Then the mind says, something more is needed. One more house, one more car, one more achievement, one more relationship, one more honor. And you start running again.

This cycle keeps going. A person keeps changing objects. But the machine of wanting remains the same. Therefore the problem is not that you have too little. The problem may be that you do not even know what enough is. A person who does not know himself can never be content. Because his lack is not a lack of outer objects. His lack is a distance from himself.

You are cut off, within, from your own existence. So you try to fill that empty place with outer things. But no object can fill the place within you. For a little while pleasure will come. Then the same emptiness will return. You must have seen: the thing you were restless for months to obtain loses its attraction within a few days of being obtained. Why? Because the object never touched your original problem. You did not want the object. You wanted the experience of completeness within. But you searched for it in the object. And this illusion keeps a human being circling birth after birth.

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