What is a Care First World?
(excerpts from a talk given at the yearly Socially Responsible Investing conference, USA, Sept 9th 2001. For complete version. click here)

In a Care First World, we use money in service of 
our caring, our values and our passion
and in service of the well being of people and the Earth

In a Money First World, we use money at the expense 
of our caring, our values and our passion.
and at the expense of the well being of people and the Earth.

As we enter the Money First aspect of our life and culture
we move into illusion.
We look for money without looking for care, life and spirit and
we hope to find something but enter emptiness and find nothing.
This can lead to anger and frustration and can open the careless
and destructive side of our nature.

As we enter the Care First aspect of our life and culture
we move into truth.
When we aim for care, life and spirit and use money to serve that aim we enter fullness and find everything.
This leads to satisfaction and happiness and opens the caring
and constructive side of our nature.  

CARE FIRST IN WORK

When we work for money at the expense of our values, passion and caring we are not happy with the work, only happy with the money we receive and the material well being it gives us.

But when our work is the expression of our values, passion and caring we are happy with that work and happy with the money we receive. We are happy on all levels.

  When we feel that we need to take a job for money and are not expressing our real selves and not making our unique contribution to our community and Earth, we are in a sense wasting our time and often have less time, energy and willingness to care for our community and the Earth.

This is different when we do the work we love and money comes our way as we do it. Then we are happy and it is easier and more natural for us to care. We are not wasting our time and are full of purpose.                                                                                                                    

OUR SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE

In today’s economy the source of sustenance for most people is money.  For many of us money exists somewhere outside of ourselves – and we need to get it. Because it is out there, we are afraid to loose it and often do not experience a real control over what we manifest financially.

In an Economy of Love the source of our sustenance is experienced on the inside of ourselves as our connection to the Divine, which regulates our life out of a true caring for our soul’s path. Through this alignment we know that all material things that we are in need of will come our way. We trust that money manifests itself in relation to our true path of service, and know that there will always be enough. When we experience this we live in Care First and know that Care First will sustain us.

When we live with the intention of Care First, we address the issues in our life, community and world that need to be addressed socially, environmentally, economically and politically without saying “we cannot look at this because we have no money!” In Care First we make sure that we look at it, and once we know what needs doing, we manifest the flow of finance, resources and events needed.  

A CARE FIRST WORLD

We can see a real breakthrough of caring in the world. A process where money is serving the caring everywhere, because we become clear about the illusions of Money First and the power of Care First.

Money itself is not the source of our happiness. It is only a tool that we can use for our joy.  It is a movement or flow of energy that can bless the world, but we do not need to be attached to it. We can be inwardly free with it and we can serve with money. We can connect to each other through money instead of allowing it to create separation. We can create peace instead of war with it and harmony instead of conflict. Money can be a powerful tool for creating a Caring World.

In our experience Money First and Care First are the two aspects of our test with money.
When we look at Care First and Money First inside of ourselves we can see that when we live in Money First, we are tense, alone, in separation, fearfull and depressed. When we live in Care First, we are strong, vibrant, happy and most of all in harmony with ourselves.

YES CARE FIRST

Let’s consider a Care First World Vision. Can you see the golden water beginning to flow everywhere? Can you see what happens when our conflicts around money resolve? People loosing their self-protectiveness and fear around money, and working together and supporting one another with it. Can you see this new Dance, this new Release and new Horizon?

And isn’t it natural and inevitable for us all to go there? The human soul cannot bear being contracted around money, work and survival, nor live with a sense of separation for too long. It will seek love and unity.  

Each one of us can think and live Care First if we choose to. 
The application of Care First  creates a wonderful world.

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