Money and the Meaning of Life Author:Jacob Needleman If money were more important to us, writes philosopher Jacob Needleman, we would understand how it influences everything in our lives. "Love and hatred, eating and sleeping, safety and danger, work and rest, marriage, children, fear, loneliness...Think of where we go, how we travel, with whom we associate...The money factor is there, wrapped aro... more »und or lodged inside everything." Money is the raw material out of which we build our lives. But because we don't take money more seriously, we have come to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
This remarkable new book is written as a quest that aims to make us finely aware and richly responsible. Drawing on the seminars he gives around the world, Needleman raises a number of questions about how money influences our emotional and spiritual lives. In reading this book, we become his students. We learn how to confront our embarrassment--or bravado--over money; we puzzle out the cultural hold money has on us. Needleman explains, for example, how money came to haunt us, from the invention of coins in Biblical times,(when money was created to rescue the community good, not for self-gain)through to its hypnotic appeal in our money-obsessed era.« less