Rethinking Money and Enough
Money seems to rule modern life, yet it is only a human invention. It was created to make exchange easier, but over time people began treating it as if it were more powerful than life itself. Jobs, relationships, health, and even the planet are often pushed aside in service of financial gain. That distortion leaves many people, rich and poor alike, feeling trapped, anxious, and disconnected from what matters most.
Lynne Twist came to this understanding through decades of work in philanthropy, hunger relief, and environmental activism. She spent years bringing wealthy donors into contact with communities living with very little. Again and again, she saw the same pattern. Money created fear, stress, and separation, no matter how much of it a person had. Yet she also saw that when money was linked to a person’s deepest values, it became healing and life-giving.
Her own family life sharpened that lesson. During a period of rising financial success, she and her husband were swept into the familiar cycle of bigger homes, nicer cars, and more expensive experiences. They told themselves they were building a good life for their children, but a closer look showed that work and consumption were replacing presence and connection. The more they gained, the less satisfied they felt. That restlessness started to lift only when she gave herself fully to work that served other people.
Money does not have to dominate a life. It can become a tool for expressing love, purpose, and responsibility. The change begins when people stop asking how to get more and start asking what money is for. Once that question becomes central, financial life moves from fear and control toward integrity and freedom.
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