“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.” LoveLifeHumansEnjoyFamilySocietyDirectorsCapitalismScreensLive LifeStaringUncomfortableAcquireShopsShoppingCapitalistBeing HumanLiving My LifeEnjoy LifeScreenwritersHolding Hands Author:Frank Schaeffer
“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.” ThinkingKnowsEnjoyPleasureEconomyTragedyGratefulSacredGood ThingsPossessionConsumersContemplationAcquireConsumerismPossessingOverconsumptionUnspeakable Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.” YoungFallEnjoyCommonErrorsEnjoymentAcquirePrudenceProdigals Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think