"The vicious cycle of poverty, [Mother Theresa] said, has been clearly articulated and is widely known. What is less obvious and goes almost completely unacknowledged is the vicious cycle of wealth [my emphasis]. There is no recognition of the trap that wealth so often is, and of the sufferning of the wealthy: the lonliness, the isolation, the hardening of the heart, the hunger and poverty of the soul that can come with the burden of wealth. She said that I had extended little or no compassion to the strong, the powerful, and the wealthy, while they need as much compassion as anyone else on earth."
“You must open your heart to them and become their student and their teacher,” she said in her letter. “Open your compassion and include them. This is an important part of your life’s work. Do not shut them out. They also are your work.”
Lynne Twist, “The Soul of Money”
