Money is an important tool unless we grow our own produce on a farm. In order to meet the needs of our physical body, we need things that can be bought with money, not money. As much as money is to our physical needs, love is our spiritual need.
Love is very important for our mental health. It is possible to live without money. It is impossible to live without love. We have to love something even a little. We have to eat and drink even a little. Money is a tool used to meet our physical needs. But when we try to use money to satisfy our spiritual hunger, we make a mistake. This question also arises at this point. "Love or Money?"
In my opinion, trying to meet our spiritual needs with money is like satisfying the longing for nature with a picture of nature.
Not even all the money in the world can get true love. However, we can get paintings that remind us of love.
You cannot get the love that makes a mother sleep without sleep at the beginning of her child with a fire.
The love of a couple who lovingly holds each other's hands for 50 years is not something earned with money.
The love of your spouse, who is with you in both illness and health, cannot be measured with money.
The love of a husband who meets the needs of his wife in the wheelchair is not something money can buy.
Money is a tool. Of course I love money. Of course I want more money, more abundance in my life. Money is a tool. But Love is a need.
Love is connecting hearts. Those who truly love each other, money can be used to make each other happy. But the heart earned with money is lost when the money runs out. Yet true love continues to exist even if it is not money.
Money and everything that is earned with money stays in the world with our body. But love stays with us with our soul.
I think the main thing that triggers the shopping habits of human beings is spiritual needs. Because shopping never satisfies our spiritual needs, we constantly try to satisfy this by purchasing new things.
Even advertisements are prepared for our spiritual, not physical needs. It may give temporary satisfaction, but it will never be enough.
Even our relationships are for physical satisfaction. Yet it is clear that this masks our spiritual hunger. We continue to live a life away from true love as we build our relationships to satisfy our physical needs rather than love. Because we are never satisfied, we are constantly looking for new loves (!).
We cannot find the effect of a loving lover's gaze, even if we have relationships with thousands of people throughout our life.
In our early teens, it will never be possible to find what we felt when you first took the hand of our loved one in night-time loves.
That love, excitement, shyness are only in love. Unless our hearts are open to love, it does not seem possible for us to taste true love.
Is it money? Is it love? I prefer to use money to buy flowers for the woman I love, to go on vacation together, to meet the needs of our home. Comparing the two is against the rules of logic.
A life lived without love is always incomplete. We invented money. Love is our Divine side.
There must be love in our life so that we can be truly happy. But love is more important than happiness. Knowing love is very different from feeling love.
We came to the world to learn, to know, to feel, to be.
Living life, love and happiness to the bone is really living. Of course, anyone is free to live as they wish. However, I prefer to experience love. In a world where everyone is a philosopher, I prefer to be an ordinary person who speaks wholeheartedly. Rather than being a cruel ruler with whom the world bowed in fear; I'd rather be a shepherd with a sparrow perched on his shoulder without fear.
Monarchs remain in the history books. However, myths are spread by word of mouth. Love reaches from heart to heart, from soul to soul.
I am happily married. Me and my partner sold everything we owned to afford the UK spouse visa costs at the time. Our wedding? Gay marriage is not recognised in the Philippines, so we had a small ceremony at the British Embassy in Manila. Our Filipino friends took us to a highway services where we had KFC on the way home. My partner and I were broke when we met, scrimping and saving to get flights to the Philippines.
We have been together since 2018 January, married in 2019, March. We submitted his visa application at an eye-watering cost of £3500+, selling everything we owned to get it done. The visa is valid for 2.5 years, then you get another one and then PR after 5 years (For similar fees). The visa was granted, and we have been together in the UK since.
We both work in social care, and our marriage has been that of a fairytale. We did not have a lot of money, but we have both been happy. Being stuck in the house outside of work only strengthened our marriage. When my health took a nosedive for five months in September 2020 - January 2020, he gave me care round the clock, I had a flare-up of ME/CFS that left me bed-bound until it passed. I have had this since my teens, but that was the worst flare-up.
I saw how caring he was towards others when in the Philippines, and at work. His compassion and love for others are what I fell in love with. People talk about winning the lottery. I won my 'lottery', though I believe the marriage was fated. I have no regrets, and every day I am grateful to be in a marriage where there is total communication, trust, and love. You cannot buy that; it has to come from the heart.
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