Notes & Highlights for The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

We start to believe the profit-driven commercial and cultural messages that suggest money can buy happiness, and we begin to look outside of ourselves to be fulfilled. Intuitively, we know it isn’t so, but the money culture shouts down the wiser inner voice, and we feel compelled to seek even the most transient relief and comforts that money can bu

It can be a current or currency of love—a conduit for commitment—or a carrier of hurt or harm. We can be flooded with money and drown in its excess, and when we dam it up unnecessarily, we keep it out of circulation to the detriment of others.

When we talk about success in life, money is almost always the first, and sometimes the only, measure we use for it.