Possessing is the act that leads us to accumulate objects or knowledge. The wealth we have to rank and strengthen our performance. There are three differences of goods, some that are said to be external, others that consist of the soul, and others in the body.

In the Mandala of Emotions possession belongs to the family of passions. Possession and delivery are two sisters with antagonistic paths in terms of enthusiasm. In delivery the subject turns to the object. In possession the object turns towards the subject. When possessive enthusiasm is overcome it transforms into its counterpart, ambition. One gives it all, the other wants it all.

Emotions are in balance or not. This depends on the mode, the occasion and the duration of the emotion. Possession when balanced leads to success, but when it is excessive or deficient, it leads to failure.

The more you own, the less you own yourself.

Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we feel.

The prodigal is the one who ruins himself for his own pleasure.

Goods should not be called those that, although possessed in abundance, do not prevent their owner from being unhappy.

Things that do not instill greatness, confidence, or security in the soul and, on the contrary, provoke arrogance, are evil.

Human beings are more concerned with having than with being.

It is lavish who has no limits on their spending, squanders money and tries to stand out without the slightest taste.

Luxury is harmful, because it multiplies the necessities of life, uses human understanding in frivolous things and gilding vices, makes virtue despicable, which is the only one that produces true goods and tastes.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.

But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things don't satisfy our longing for meaning.

The more gold, the less rest.

Save well but not so much that you don't find what's saved.

How many things we acquire because others have done it, because the majority owns them.

Ignorance only degrades when it is associated with wealth.

Of the things you have, choose the best and then consider how hard you would have searched for them if you didn't have them.

The most precious goods are highly disputed and the name selfish comes from these customs that are deplorable.

Ownership is a trap; what we think we possess actually possesses us.

He who is afraid of poverty is not worthy of being rich.

If money is your hope for independence you will never get it

When we look for the goods for the goods themselves, then we find the evils.

Jealousy appears to justify domination over what has never been possessed.

No money is more advantageously used than the one that cheats us: because we change it directly out of prudence.

Do not strive to increase your goods, but to decrease your greed.

The habit of acquiring goods with which to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

A good that is not known is not such a good, and possessing what is not appreciated is as if it were not possessed.

Wealth does not consist so much in the possession of goods as in the use made of them.

We are more sensitive to the evils that afflict this world than to the goods that adorn it.

Nobody can be sure in the possession of those goods that, in spite of himself, he can lose; Only truth and wisdom are not lost by anyone against their will.

True security lies not in the things you have but in the things you can do without.

We will encourage moderate desires if each one considers his own person and convinces himself that he cannot hoard too much for too long.

It is not the possession of the truth, but the success that comes after the search, where the seeker is enriched by it.

He who needs it as little as possible enjoys wealth particularly.

Having time is the possession of the most precious asset for those who have the will to achieve great things.

Making goods is a treasure that is saved for when it is necessary.

The property has its duties as well as its rights.

You can't have more than your heart can hold.

Things are worth what the heart of the person who owns them is worth: they are goods for those who know how to use them well, evils for those who misuse them.

The educated person carries his riches within himself.

Of all the subjective goods, the one that most directly makes us happy is a jovial mood.

As much as they take from me, much more will remain.

It is because of the possession of good and beautiful things that those who are happy are happy.

I take all my things with me.

Happiness does not lie in the possession of the created object, but in the act of creating it.

The property has its duties as well as its rights.

Those who possess enough have achieved what the rich never achieve, the end of their ambition.

Freedom, that good that makes you enjoy other goods.

The best goods, you have them in yourself.

The first of the goods, after health, is inner peace.

Good is wealth if reason commands it.

Wealth consists in the proper use of goods.

To calculate the true value of someone, to be stripped of their assets, their positions and other misleading gifts of fortune.

When the possession of goods comes into play, it is difficult to reason fairly.

Virtue lies much more in providing good than in receiving it oneself; so much more in doing good things than in not doing shameful things.

Friendship multiplies goods and distributes evils.

Your goods and your evils depend largely on those with whom you have associated.

Prudence is the highest of all goods.

He who does not possess too many goods can rightly be called happy.

The sentences of this article are distributed throughout the Oracle of the Soul.