On Investments

       
A recent TV commercial featured a pleasant-looking couple sitting across a desk, talking to a cheerful advisor of some kind when a sonorous, voice-over added to the scene with the words: “We invest for what’s next.” It became obvious that this commercial had a financial message in it with the hope that viewers might come to their institution to do business. What I found important were the crisp, clear words: “We invest for what’s next,” and we do, sometimes using money and holdings, at other times with a much larger intention.

Looking ahead...

The fact is that while we have a mind for thinking, we are looking ahead, even if it is only to the demands of the day. Nearly always, though, it is more, much more. Yes, many will want to make their money grow so it can help secure their futures, but often it is human capital that we are more concerned with. So often the brooding questions lie within us: Who am I and what is mine to do? Parents all over the world, even in some of the poorest countries, want their children to be educated. They are investing in a better life for them, which, I believe, is a clear, spiritual recognition of the value of individual lives.

"What's next?"....

This view of “what’s next” never leaves. The expansiveness of self discovery never ceases, only its focus may change. As spiritual individuals the “what’s next” always lies open. Since the Infinite Flow of Being always courses through us, we will constantly find ourselves in the mode of looking ahead. We hear of some men and women who, at the end of their corporate lives or child-rearing years, turn their energies to work in a holy service as monks or sisters. They still have active lives, just turned in a different direction.

Roads to travel....

I think there will always be roads to travel, some actively chosen, some that simply come to us as ours to do. We might readily ask: “What’s next?”

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