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==A Collective Possession==
Money is a force and should not be an individual possession, no more than air, water or fire.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/undated-1958-4#p1</ref> <center>~</center>
Money does not belong to anybody. Money is a collective possession which should be used only by those who have an integral, comprehensive and universal vision. I would add something to that: not only integral and comprehensive, but essentially ''true''
as well; a vision which can tell the difference between a use which is in accord with the universal progress, and a use which could be termed fanciful. But these are details, for even the mistakes, even, from a certain standpoint, the waste, help the general progress: these are lessons learned the hard way.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/early-talks#p113</ref>
...money is a force and belongs to nobody, but it must be used by the most disinterested and clearsighted person (or persons) in the country.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/january-31-1970#p13</ref>
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The conflict about money is what might be called a "conflict of ownership", but the truth is that money belongs to no one. This idea of possessing money has warped everything. Money should not be a "possession": like power it is a means of action which is given to you, but you must use it according to... what we can call the "will of the Giver", that is, in an impersonal and enlightened way. If you are a good instrument for diffusing and utilising money, then it comes to you, and it comes to you in proportion to your capacity to use it as it is meant to be used. That is the true mechanism.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/early-talks#p102</ref>
==Misconceptions about Money==