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Summary: Money as Transformational Energy
Review: "The Soul of Money" is profound and magical. It not only provides a wealth of information about fund-raising and the incredible adventures Lynne Twist has experienced in her pursuit of making the world a better place, it also offers a road map for each of us to use to change our lives and transform the world. Read it and your relationship with money will change. You will be stunned by what you did not know about yourself and your attitides toward prosperty. You will be inspired and empowered to focus the rays of money's transformational energy in ways that will bring you prosperty on many levels.John Perkins, author of "The World Is As You Dream It" and "Shapeshifting"
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Summary: Money as Transformational Energy
Review: "The Soul of Money" is profound and magical. It not only provides a wealth of information about fund-raising and the incredible adventures Lynne Twist has experienced in her pursuit of making the world a better place, it also offers a road map for each of us to use to change our lives and transform the world. Read it and your relationship with money will change. You will be stunned by what you did not know about yourself and your attitides toward prosperty. You will be inspired and empowered to focus the rays of money's transformational energy in ways that will bring you prosperty on many levels. John Perkins, author of "The World Is As You Dream It" and "Shapeshifting"
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Summary: Not quite understanding what all the fuss is about...
Review: I had several people recommend this book to me and was very excited to read it. I was instead disappointed by basic concepts, a grating over-sincerity, and an annoying habit of name-dropping and self promotion. I think examining our relationship to money is very important and needs to happen more in our culture, but for me "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin and "Seven Stages of Money Maturity" by George Kinder were more insightful and immediately useful. That being said, I'm glad that Lynne Twist is doing the work she is in the world and anything that brings public attention to these issues serves a purpose.
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Summary: Insightful
Review: I thought this was a very insightful book. I would recommend it.
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Summary: A thoughtful exploration of our relationship with money
Review: In this book, Lynne Twist explores the relationship that people - rich, poor and in between - have with money. For many of us, it is a relationship fraught with anxiety and the sense of scarcity. No matter how much we have, or how many things we've bought with it, there's not enough. But through her globe-spanning experiences, Ms. Twist has found ways to replace a sense of scarcity with a more-positive understanding of sufficiency and the freedom that awareness provides. No matter what your personal financial situation, this book will be meaningful, helpful and perhaps even inspiring. Well-written and fascinating, beginning to end.
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Summary: A book to inspire and challenge
Review: Lynne Twist has written a powerful, potentially transforming book about our relationship with money. You cannot read it without being deeply moved by her experiences as a fundraiser working with the poorest of the poor and the wealthiest of the wealthy -- an extraordinary and deeply human journey into how money can flow through everyone's life in ways that empower them to stand for positive change in their lives and in our world. Reflecting on her own life journey, Lynne makes it clear that you don't have to be perfect to grow and change, that living into exalted visions imperfectly is, after all, the path of transformation. Read this book if you want to be inspired. Read this book if you want to be challenged. Read this book if you believe you can help change the world.
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Summary: A Refreshing View of Money and our Relationship to it.
Review: Money can be a wonderful slave or a terrible taskmaster.
It's not about what you have but how you use what you have.
This book gave me a new insight into looking at money differently.
Rather than just accumulate and hold onto it, how about letting it flow. This feels a lot lighter and more freeing.
I would recommend it no matter how much or how little money you have.
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Summary: Raise your money consciousness
Review: Most of us think that we understand the facts of money: money is good, lack of money is bad; having more money is better than having less money; competition and scarcity are normal because it's a jungle out there; the way to cure economic depression and hunger is to throw more money at the problem; and so on. But these aren't "facts" in the sense of objective realities; rather, they stem from attitudes towards money that are so ingrained in our culture that they rarely intrude into our consciousness. This book is an eye-opener: as a highly successful fund-raiser and representative for the Hunger Project, Lynne Twist has worked with everyone from Amazon tribal members to CEOs of multi-billion-dollar corporations. Her sensitivity and willingness to listen have given her insight into the real-life consequences of our attitudes towards money (and resources in general). The money consciousness that she propounds in this book is transformative, but it's based on a breadth of experience that makes her conclusions convincing -- for instance, she's worked in real jungles, and the "law of the jungle" is NOT the way they actually operate! Despite the many well-chosen anecdotes, this book deals primarily in generalizations. But that's appropriate: the author's purpose is to make us aware of our attitudes towards money, and suggest how changing these attitudes can transform the way we go about solving some of the world's most vexing problems. This book deserves not only to be read, but taken to heart.
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Summary: Raise your money consciousness
Review: Most of us think that we understand the facts of money: money is good, lack of money is bad; having more money is better than having less money; competition and scarcity are normal because it's a jungle out there; the way to cure economic depression and hunger is to throw more money at the problem; and so on. But these aren't "facts" in the sense of objective realities; rather, they stem from attitudes towards money that are so ingrained in our culture that they rarely intrude into our consciousness. This book is an eye-opener: as a highly successful fund-raiser and representative for the Hunger Project, Lynne Twist has worked with everyone from Amazon tribal members to CEOs of multi-billion-dollar corporations. Her sensitivity and willingness to listen have given her insight into the real-life consequences of our attitudes towards money (and resources in general). The money consciousness that she propounds in this book is transformative, but it's based on a breadth of experience that makes her conclusions convincing -- for instance, she's worked in real jungles, and the "law of the jungle" is NOT the way they actually operate! Despite the many well-chosen anecdotes, this book deals primarily in generalizations. But that's appropriate: the author's purpose is to make us aware of our attitudes towards money, and suggest how changing these attitudes can transform the way we go about solving some of the world's most vexing problems. This book deserves not only to be read, but taken to heart.
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Summary: Oliver Twist asks "more"; Lynne Twist asks "enough"!
Review: One of the best books I've read concerning personal finances. Specifically, the book urges us to direct the flow of money in our lives -- no matter the amount -- in a manner aligned with our highest personal, and human, values. Highly recommended.
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