May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
Interpretation
Income provides individuals with the ability to make choices, which is essential for maintaining their dignity.
This quote by Jacqueline Novogratz emphasizes the intrinsic connection between financial resources and personal autonomy. When individuals have access to income, they are empowered to make decisions that affect their lives, contributing to their sense of dignity and worth. The ability to choose is presented as a crucial element of a fulfilling life, highlighting the social and moral implications of economic opportunities.
In practice
In a speech about economic development, one might cite this quote to emphasize the importance of financial independence.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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