The Enemy Within

There is enough in the world to fulfill everyone’s needs, but not enough to fulfill everyone’s greed. In some parts of the world, people are dying from severe undernourishment, while in other parts of the world people are dying from obesity.  -Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

Is there enough to go round? Immediately we encounter a serious difficulty: What is “enough”? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues “economic growth” as the highest of all values and therefore has no concept of “enough.” There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: “Halt! We have enough”? There is none.*-E.F. Schumacher                               

Perhaps instead of saying that the world cannot feed so many people and that those poor people are doomed (or that we need to “thin out their numbers”) we should do something about it.  We could start by donating some of our abundant wealth. There is enough food in the world, let us make sure it gets to those in need.Famine - Too Many Mouths to Feed?   Marcus Roberts | 25 Aug 2011 |

It is a fact that no matter how much sense gratification a person gets, he will never be satisfied. Material food, material things, material sense gratification cannot satisfy the atma (spirit soul). Just as the body needs material food, so the spirit soul needs spiritual food. To try to satisfy one’s spiritual craving with material things leads to endless consumption, greed, envy, violence, and war. Western people have as much sense gratification as one could ever want, yet they are not satisfied. Why? Because they are spiritually empty.  -Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation