More vs ENOUGH from Ecclesiastes to Talmud To New Testament

More vs ENOUGH – January 22, 2012

The More fat, the More disease. The More possessions, the More worry. The More wives, the More rivalry. The More maids, the More frivolity. The More butlers, the More theft.
Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 2:8

The More you have
The More you have to maintain
Ecclesiastes 5:10

I have seen a great heartache in this world;
you hoard your wealth to guard against the future
only to lose it all in a deal gone bad
Ecclesiastes 5:12-13

If you are clever in the ways of finance
yet lack the capacity for contentment (enoughness – jds)
are you at all superior to the financially ignorant?
Is a contented pauper less than a discontented financier
Ecclesiastes 6:8

Once there was a rich man who lad lots of money and he said, ‘I willinvest my money so that I can sow, reap, plant, and fill up my silos with crops so I won’t lack anything’ So he thought, but that night he died.
Gospel of Thomas

If you are clever in the ways of finance
yet lack the capacity for contentment (enoughness – jds)
are you at all superior to the financially ignorant?
Is a contented pauper less than a discontented financier
Ecclesiastes 6:8

More, better, now becomes less, worse, later
Jim Schwartz

Money can’t buy happiness but it can’t buy you poverty either
Ellis Schwartz