Monday, May 15, 2006

PROFIT - from GUTFEELING

Also known as net income, profit is the sum remaining after all expenses have been met or deducted; synonymous with net earnings and with net profit or net loss (depending on whether the figure is positive or negative).
-Jerry White, business consultant

Profit is not a four-letter word. It’s six. And without profit, or gain, we have to close the show.

Everything in the universe runs on the profit system. If a church, synagogue, or temple wants to stay in business it needs more new souls. That can be considered the ‘profit’ on its work. No profit – No show. There are commentators today who are afraid this is happening. A church, just like a business, must downsize if it’s not keeping its members.

Most of us go to work to bring home a livelihood. If you’re smart enough to keep something of what you earned, you can say you’ve ‘shown a net profit’. I have never yet met anyone who was under-worked and overpaid. Yet I have discovered that a lot of people who earn a lot of money are in a lot of debt.

I see spirituality as the unconscious becoming conscious. The more ‘profitable’ the unconscious can become, the more assets our conscious will have.

Excerpt from Gutfeeling
Author, Peter Urs Bender

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