17 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about materialism
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Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t have starts to look like the only thing that I do have.
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I wonder if it’s in losing everything that we realize that all we’ve lost is the ‘nothing’ that we mistakenly thought was ‘everything.
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To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
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In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.
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I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.
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Possession is a ruse and entitlement is a fallacy. Therefore, I am left with the singular fact that everything is a gift. And if I have one gift to give in exchange for these many gifts, maybe it’s the commitment to treat everything in like manner.
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Despite the illusions that I so readily embrace, whatever I hold can’t be held, for in time, time will steal it away. But time can’t hold God. Therefore, of all the things around me, my hands should be full of God and empty of everything else.
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Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.
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