What is wealth?
Most of us associate wealth with money, our savings, our investments, our homes or other forms of “financial capital.”
It does not allow for the HEALTH & Happiness or the quality of education, or the joy OR play.
It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages ( DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS ) or the intelligence of our spirts.
It doesn't measure our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our fellow human beings.
It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life
worthwhile.”
But did you know that the word wealth comes from the Old English words “weal” (well-being) and “th” (condition) which taken together means “the condition of well-being”? Did you also know that the word “economic” comes from the Greek oikonomia meaning “the management of the household.” When have you heard a report from economists or business analysts talk about conditions of household living and management? Instead we have become immune to strong language like the word “mortgage” which literally means in French “a pledge unto death” or what I call “a grip of death!” How we have twisted the meaning of words. Did you know that the father of accounting Lucca Paciolli, a 16th century Fransiscan monk and mathematician, never defined the word “wealth” nor did he provide a definition of “profit.” To this day accountants have no clear definition of either word.
Wealthy means abundance of joy happiness and love.
That's my take on the word.
What about you?
Thanks for the read.
Take care people of the spiritual universe.
Lance
