Living Deeply

True Wealth (Rowan Williams)

Wealth is well-being. And well-being, for a mature human being, is the assurance of relationships that nourish you, the assurance of a future that is relatively secure, that is somehow protected against appalling disaster and deprivation. Wealth is the capacity to put down roots where you are and be at home with yourself and your neighbors.

If you understand wealth in those terms, then wealth ceases to be about endless material growth and becomes very much about how you create the kind of social cohesiveness and trustfulness that keeps societies going.

via www.trinitywallstreet.org

 

Faith In A Consumer World (Jonathan Sacks)

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.