“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” —Erich Fromm
“Greed is the disease of discontentment.” —Miguel Ruiz
“Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.” —Andy Stanley
Is enough ever enough? Society’s obsession with excess is like an uncontrolled cancer…infecting, disabling, and destroying us from the core. This sad, sick need for more “things” is the metastasization of a collective crippling inadequacy, falsely convincing us that more toys, cars, and vacations mean the Swiss cheese holes of our disintegrating self-esteem will suddenly, magically be made whole.
On an inexhaustible quest to collect and possess, the plastered porcelain smiles and lifeless eyes tell a story of meaningless mundanity presented as aspiration, not the satisfied rewards earned from pouring passion into purpose.
Yet, we adjust the blinders, focus that familiar tunnel vision, and ignore the fact that being a king who sits on top of a mountain of shit is not a symbol of any powerful ascendancy. It’s a sad reflection of the countless sagging, sore shoulders it took to propel him to the peak.
Native Americans believed that a single member of the group absconding off with the spoils of the hunt—hoarding resources without sharing anything with the rest of the tribe—signaled a form of mental illness. An individual thinking that he or she was more worthy or important than the community was unfathomable.
Now, this abhorrent behavior is praised and idolized, without even a hint of ironic recognition.
Medical professionals constantly report and warn of a national mental health crisis and the implications and dangers of its unabated growth.
Looks like we may have to widen the parameters of that research.
Solitary Alignment 