Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
A good chief gives, he does not take.
However plenty silver dollars may become, they will not be distributed as gifts among the people.
The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.
Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice.
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
Gifts make slaves.
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.
I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.
It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.
As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.
The Chiefs are generally the poorest among them, for instead of their receiving from the common People as among Christians, they are obliged to give to them; especially when any one is killed in War, they give great Presents to the next of Kin to the deceased
