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After analyzing data from over 450,000 Americans, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton concluded that happiness has a price tag. They found that once a person’s annual income reaches about $75,000, their day-to-day happiness levels off and does not increase much with higher earnings.
What they really uncovered is the limit of happiness that money can buy, but not the limit of happiness itself.
There is no ceiling over happiness in and of itself. It is infinite when we learn how to optimally balance “appetite” and “food,” i.e., when we have everything that we need and just a little bit more to aspire toward. That is when everything falls into place internally. The key is in this inner balance that we can learn to bring about, not in the size of the bank account.
Money, in our material world, serves as a tool to achieve corporeal goals. It is indeed useful, but only within this world’s boundaries. If we aim higher, toward a spiritual goal in the upper world, then we reach a different form of currency altogether. There, money transforms into a means of elevation, a means of bestowal. It is not the money that we can count here in our world, but an inner covering upon our desires that can bring us into more of a connection with others and nature. That is where genuine, lasting fulfillment lives.
In spirituality, the wealthy person is not the one who accumulates for themselves, but the one who can constantly extend outwardly in order to fulfill others, according to the extent of their connection with the force of love and bestowal dwelling in nature. That is wealth and happiness far beyond the wealth we know about in our world.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on August 27, 2024. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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