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Review
In this fascinating book Needleman looks at the relationship between the quest for money and the quest for the meaning of life. He sees the desire for more wealth as a misplaced religious act.
For Needleman, money has become the "organizing principle" of our outer world. The tyranny of money is such that it has been absorbed by almost every aspect of our lives, and thus it is the most real thing we know. But the problem is not so much the money — the problem is that there is nothing in our interior world that is as intense and vivid as our experience of money.
If we want to understand something about the meaning of our lives, we must first understand something about the deep personal meaning of money.
Needleman brings to this book an extensive knowledge in philosophy and comparative religions and includes many references to Christian and other faith traditions, mythologies, poets, historians, psychologists and others. For the Christian reader, this book cannot be read without the constant refrain of Christ’s teaching about faith and money.
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