Top Highlights

• Probing our disappointments, making tough decisions about priorities, becoming independent, surviving hardship, putting off a short-term pleasure for a long-term benefit: these are crucial aspects of mature living, not just unfortunate detours imposed by money.
• So, ultimately the task in life is to translate efforts and activities that are inherently worthwhile into possessions and experiences that are themselves of lasting and true value. That is the ideal money cycle. Our relationship with money becomes unhealthy when we remove it from this cycle.
• Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.
• The quality of a relationship depends on what you bring and on what the other party (in this case money) brings.