Soul Food: Week of May 8, 2022
- davd soul
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min read
“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values
Sunday: How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus
Monday: The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Washington Irving in “The Creole Village”
Tuesday: The dollar is “daily becoming more & more an object of worship”. Washington Irving in midst of financial panic one year later
Wednesday: The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold. Ben Jonson in Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
Thursday: Be fearful when others are greedy. Warren Buffet
Friday: Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies … the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms … for life … love … knowledge … has marked the upward surge of mankind. Gordon Gekko
Saturday: Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world … of its own values. Karl Marx
Davd Soul
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