Our only realistic aim can be the attainment of this power of discrimination, this unique quality of self-knowledge and inner freedom. And if money is to be secondary in our lives, it can only mean that money serve the aim of self-knowledge.

Here, at last, we have found our question. Here we find the key to the place that money can–and must- occupy in our lives. Money must become an instrument of the search for self-knowledge. Money must become a tool in the only enterprise worth undertaking for any modern man or woman seriously wishing to find the meaning of their lives: we must use money in order to study ourselves as we are and as we can become. (From the book “ Money and the Meaning of Life)