“How do you make the money you need without compromising your ethical or spiritual values? How do you achieve, in the words immortalised by Sting ‘Spirit in a Material World’? There is no escape from the material world, short of death. We all live in it, because we all incarnated into the human context. Becoming a charity, a monk, a Findhorn Foundation member or Mother Teresa does not release you from materialism: it merely changes your relationship to it – and less than you might hope or think. Being a materialist is nothing to be ashamed of: even the Dalai Lama uses aeroplanes, and we all need to eat and clothe ourselves and have a little box to live in.”

Extract from an article by Andrew Ferguson which was first published in One Earth Magazine Issue No 15 Autumn 1994.

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