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Nov. 4th, 2009
I started my daily gratitude posts back in March [as I recall], cuz I had long been told that “finding at least one thing to be grateful for every day” was a good spiritual practice that would have unforeseen benefits, so I finally decided to try it.
I'm pausing now to take stock and report: since I began doing this, my general mood has lifted and I have had significant insights into myself and my perspectives on life [without my directing conscious effort toward these things]. I am generally in a much better internal place now, although none of the external physical circumstances of my life have improved during that time.
Joincidence?
I'm pausing now to take stock and report: since I began doing this, my general mood has lifted and I have had significant insights into myself and my perspectives on life [without my directing conscious effort toward these things]. I am generally in a much better internal place now, although none of the external physical circumstances of my life have improved during that time.
Joincidence?
from The Incas: new perspectives by Gordon Francis McEwan:
The most unusual aspect of the Inca economy was the lack of a market system and money. There was no trading class in Inca society, and the development of individual wealth acquired through commerce was not possible. Local political units were ideally to be as self-sufficient as possible in producing their own basic economic requirements. The production, distribution, and use of commodities were centrally controlled by the Inca government. Each citizen of the empire was issued the necessities of life out of the state storehouses, including food, tools, raw materials, and clothing, and needed to purchase nothing. With no shops or markets, there was no need for a standard currency or money, and there was nowhere to spend money or purchase or trade for necessities.
The largest empire in pre-Columbian America ran for centuries without money and without commerce. Makes me wonder how many other “inevitable facts” of our existence aren't?
The most unusual aspect of the Inca economy was the lack of a market system and money. There was no trading class in Inca society, and the development of individual wealth acquired through commerce was not possible. Local political units were ideally to be as self-sufficient as possible in producing their own basic economic requirements. The production, distribution, and use of commodities were centrally controlled by the Inca government. Each citizen of the empire was issued the necessities of life out of the state storehouses, including food, tools, raw materials, and clothing, and needed to purchase nothing. With no shops or markets, there was no need for a standard currency or money, and there was nowhere to spend money or purchase or trade for necessities.
The largest empire in pre-Columbian America ran for centuries without money and without commerce. Makes me wonder how many other “inevitable facts” of our existence aren't?