## Metadata - Author: [[Siegfried E. Finser]] - Full Title: Money Can Heal - Category: #books ## Highlights - Economic value is a social phenomenon; it does not endure, but must be created anew in each transaction. Much human energy has gone into creating the illusion that it continues to exist as a constant in our social life. The only reason the illusion can persist is that we continue to create it, depend on it, and believe in it. It is one of our most cherished beliefs, the most widely held religion of our time. We human beings, between one another in a non-physical dimension I call soul, create the whole economic life of our civilization. It is probably the greatest single illusion ever created by us. No movie, play, or book offers a challenge to the fiction of our economic system. Star Wars doesn't compare to it. ([Location 818](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=818)) - When anyone speaks to me now, I hear the words, the sound of the voice and the feeling living in the thought being expressed. More than anything else, however, I hear with my inner receptivity the being of that person struggling with the real communication of the soul. The real communication is never at odds with the words, the ideas, and the feeling expressed; it is just another dimension of understanding that calls out to me. ([Location 2703](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=2703)) - Accidental, unplanned occurrences like that were happening right and left. We talked and you see our founding group was forming itself out of the intricate choreography of the world that inevitably brings together the right people for important initiatives. ([Location 2740](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=2740)) - Rudolf Steiner's social motto expresses this beautifully: “The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each one of us the whole community finds its reflection and when in the community the virtue of each one is living.” ([Location 3162](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3162)) - All meaningful endeavors in a real world require sacrifice and those willing to sacrifice qualify themselves as initiators in the name of the spirit. ([Location 3224](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3224)) - Sometimes when I am feeling particularly pleased with myself I wonder whether I am actually contributing to my Angel's development as well. Such a wonderful working together on so many levels must be mutually beneficial in some way. Perhaps this spirit partner—never wholly revealed to me, but always present as I think, feel, and act in the world—is joined to me with an intense karma that endures over more than one lifetime. ([Location 3321](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3321)) - So how do we change? Not alone, certainly. We change in the company of others, both human and invisible. We change rapidly when we invite connections with those who intersect with our biographies. Another way to put it might be to say our biographies cannot be created solo. Whoever gets involved with us becomes a co-creator of our biography. Invisible and visible partners co-create our biography with us as a work of art to be set aside one day at the end of our lives with its essences imbedded in our souls for future lifetimes. ([Location 3324](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3324)) - Gifts live on beyond the donors. They transform the world into what we can imagine it to be. It is our responsibility to cherish imaginations that are uplifting and progressive so that our giving/receiving entices the highest possible ideals into existence. ([Location 3392](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3392)) - The healing force in our culture is the moving circulation of money that touches all things, all humans, and all the visible artifacts in our cultural setting. It is we who give the movement of money its healing powers. Each one of us is a physician in residence on the earth. As has been said, “Physician, heal thyself!” So must it be said of us. We, human beings, responsible for what happens on our watch, must begin by healing ourselves and then using money to heal the world. Healing means to wake up and act responsibly. Buy and sell only what we want the world to produce. Lend to and borrow from socially constructive organizations that seek the further development of the human being and support initiative taking that is socially constructive. Give to and receive to accomplish a rich cultural life that welcomes humanity into incarnation on the earth and provides a life for each of us that enriches and encourages our whole being. ([Location 3476](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0081HNQCI&location=3476))