Presence over Profit: The Psychology of Intrinsic and Instrumental Value

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“Money has the same relationship to real wealth that words have to meaning. And as words are not the physical world, money is not real wealth. It is only an accounting of available economic energy.” –Allan Watts

Our culture is suffering from a serious psychological hang-up: that money is real, and that people ought to suffer in order to attain it.

But what happens when we stop measuring our days by degrees of profit and start experiencing them by degrees of presence? What happens when we stop measuring our work by the daily grind of a job and start experiencing it through authentic vocation? What happens when we allow community to trump commerce? What happens when money becomes merely a side-effect of doing what we love, rather than the reason why we live?

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