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ENC: The richer you are, the less you have…

The conventional wisdom: The more money you have, the better your life is.

Wisdom gained by experience suggests otherwise.

In the Ten Things to Teach & Know, one of the bits is that the more you have, the poorer you are. It looks like Alex, in the story below, might agree, as he labels winning $18 million in the lottery in 2000 as not a blessing, but a curse.

Here’s the story from CBS News:

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"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive..."
-- Joseph Campbell

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