The Man Who Quit Money

Well, 2019 is starting off good with three books read so far this year ! I just wrapped up reading The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen.  A guy raised with fundamentalist deep religious roots goes on a lifelong quest to find life, to live sanely and happily, without spending money! It is one of those books that has you thinking after you finish it.  He digs deep into companionship, community, purpose, and spiritual purpose.  He finds himself returning to the liberal mecca of Moab, Utah quite often and living in caves.

Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the book:

Page 118 - Tao Te Ching:
Creating without claiming, 
Doing without taking credit, 
Guiding without interfering, 
This is Primal Virtue.

Page 125
"He was less interested in reaching some desintation- a river or an overlook or arch- than in the experience of traveling through the moonscape, visualizing steps and ramps on a sheer slickrock dome, squeezing into forbidden slots and wondering if there was an exit.  He sought to become an element of the landscape."

Page 148 (Describing the group of alternative life seekers in Moab, Utah)
" And what sort of people chose to dwell there?  Quality people who didn't want the responsibility of ownership. The usual muster of river guides, seasonal waiters, Indians, environmental activists, and drunks."

Page 161
"Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Faith = taking a chance. "