Wealth
often appears through intense materialism, through states of mind that love matter, covet it, elbow others out of the way in order to possess it, omit generosity in order to accumulate it, and when it is acquired, trust it in all circumstances.
When
I began accompanying a friend who is a naturalist on long walks through the woods, I soon learned that he was seeing and hearing many more things than I.
In
the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus taught the need for self-knowledge, the knowledge of the true self, which God makes, and the knowledge of the false self, which counterfeits the true.
