How much is enough? Too much can be counter-productive and may endanger your life.
Learn what greed has to do with people's desire to have more and bigger things.

More, more, more. Bigger, bigger, bigger. The more-bigger mentality is in vogue. It colors the psyches of most people. Understandably, this is the desire of people who do not have enough. This attitude, rooted in greed, drives people to exploit, overconsume, oveaeat, overwork, and hoard, as they attempt to appease their consciousness of scarcity.

Behind the more-bigger obsession is a self-identity and love deficit, hatred of oneself. Believing that love for others is the way to get love, a person may pursue more and bigger things to impress others with his self-importance and worthiness to recieve their love.

Loving others without loving oneself is an attempt to satisfy the ego, a need that the person who loves himself does not have. This is pseudo-love.

Self-love is not selfishness or narcissism. It is the underpinning of a health-consciousness which enables a person to break free of the more-bigger modality. Health is not just wealth, it is more important than what is generally considered to be wealth. More millionaires than the one a friend of mine chauffeured has said to his chauffeur, "I would give away all my wealth to have health like that you enjoy."

Having more than you can enjoy often contributes to unhealth. Downsizing and taking the time spent in the acquisition and exhibition of more and bigger things to live a simple life that connects a person with nature in the raw, not nature fabricated as may be experienced while visiting Disneyland or Las Vegas extravagancies, can yield a health dividend.
Many people owe their debilitation, physical, emotional and spiritual, and their premature demise to their pursuit and acquisition of more and bigger things, Beware! Heed the label that reads, "Take 1 tablet every 6 hours. Do not exceed 6 in 24 hours." To take more is too much and could endanger your life. "When less is enough, more and bigger are too much"

Copyright 2007 by Uriah J. Fields