Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Suze OrmanRead
When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.
Interpretation
Giving should come from genuine compassion and a sense of duty rather than convenience.
This quote by Suze Orman emphasizes the importance of making heartfelt contributions to others rather than merely doing what is convenient. It suggests that true generosity stems from our core values and moral convictions, urging us to give selflessly and authentically, regardless of ease or personal gain.
In practice
In a speech about community involvement, I can use this quote to encourage individuals to engage more deeply with charitable activities.
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.
We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
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