Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Wealth this month are:

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

Where did you receive your most memorable lesson about wealth?
What was the message you received? 

 

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.” – Frederick Lewis Donaldson, Sermon, Westminster Abbey, London; March 20, 1925.

Can wealth in and of itself be a sin? Can poverty be a sin?
What experiences or messages have shaped your thoughts on this? 

 

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca

How have your thoughts on wealth and what defines wealth, shaped how you feel about money, time, generosity, etc.? Have these changed over time?

 

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. — Laertius Diogenes

How would you spend your time if it was a limitless resource?
Have your thoughts on this changed?