Possession Centeredness

Money centered people often put aside family or other priorities, assuming everyone will understand that economic demands come first. When my sense of personal worth comes from my net worth, i am vulnerable to anything that will affect the net worth. But work and money per se provide no wisdom, no guidance and only a limited degree of power and security. All it takes to show the limitations of the money center is a crisis in my life or in the life of a loved one. I know one father who was leaving with his children for a promised trip to the circus when a phone call came for him to come to work instead. He declined. For the rest of their lives, his children remembered this little act