🔗 I was obsessed with money… then I found philosophy

They rush through everything. Not because they need to, but because slowing down means confronting an emptiness they’ve been running from.

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When the corporate career fell apart and I moved back in with my parents, I hit a wall. I didn’t know what to do. So I turned to books.

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Bhante Gunaratana’s Mindfulness in Plain English, written by a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who has been meditating since he was twelve years old.

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“Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments and avoidable devastation.”

Source: I was obsessed with money… then I found philosophy

Philosophy didn’t make me poorer. It made me free. And that turned out to be worth more than any number I ever chased.

Source: I was obsessed with money… then I found philosophy