Honest Living

You don't have to work for a living. You can create for a life. We have gotten our notion of livelihood terribly crosswired. Many of us believe that an honest living is one in which we struggle and toil at something we hate, and the reward for our hardship is money. This is not so. It is but a sick belief system that we have reinforced by agreement. There is another way.

Buckminster Fuller noted that "human beings are the only creatures on the planet who tell time and believe they have to earn a living." Jesus taught the same truth in a metaphor: "Behold the lilies of the field. They do not toil and neither do the sow. Yet I tell you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." The Master went on, "will your heavenly Father not take even better care of you, who are his Children?"

From Alan Cohen, "I Had it All the Time" p. 250

Image entitled "Lilies of the Field #3"
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