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    The document discusses the concept of greed. It defines greed as an excessive desire to possess more wealth, goods or other things than necessary. Greed stems from an underlying insecurity and fear of lack or deprivation. When feeling greedy, one becomes compelled to constantly seek and acquire the desired object, risking everything else. While obtaining the object may briefly satisfy, the desire is never fully met as the underlying issues are not addressed. This can lead to cycles of harmful, addictive behaviors as the "fix" required increases over time. The document advises becoming aware of greedy tendencies without harsh judgment, and working to get control of the compulsion by finding fulfillment in what one already has.

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    The document discusses the concept of greed. It defines greed as an excessive desire to possess more wealth, goods or other things than necessary. Greed stems from an underlying insecurity and fear of lack or deprivation. When feeling greedy, one becomes compelled to constantly seek and acquire the desired object, risking everything else. While obtaining the object may briefly satisfy, the desire is never fully met as the underlying issues are not addressed. This can lead to cycles of harmful, addictive behaviors as the "fix" required increases over time. The document advises becoming aware of greedy tendencies without harsh judgment, and working to get control of the compulsion by finding fulfillment in what one already has.

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    The document discusses the concept of greed. It defines greed as an excessive desire to possess more wealth, goods or other things than necessary. Greed stems from an underlying insecurity and fear of lack or deprivation. When feeling greedy, one becomes compelled to constantly seek and acquire the desired object, risking everything else. While obtaining the object may briefly satisfy, the desire is never fully met as the underlying issues are not addressed. This can lead to cycles of harmful, addictive behaviors as the "fix" required increases over time. The document advises becoming aware of greedy tendencies without harsh judgment, and working to get control of the compulsion by finding fulfillment in what one already has.

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    The character of a person also involves how he interacts with different people who belong to

    different standard of living, gender, age, etc. This behaviour will tell the nature of that person
    and hence, show the character of that person. He who is careless in small matters generally ends
    in being careless in great affairs also, and he will certainly injure himself, and be a nuisance to all
    with whom he has any dealings. When you are rich people you are powerful, but are careless and
    dangerous because money has great influence with their actions in society. When any one person loses
    his morals and proper thinking ability, then it will directly make that person a characterless
    person. When a person uses another to gain money, power or goods, it is self-
    centered.
    We could have changed the outcome of our life by thinking about things before actually doing them,
    and listing to acquire wisdom from others. Everyone can told us valuable information and we over
    looked the information. That is why the character in the story is being careless because of his
    negligence.

    As there is a saying or phrase by William Graham If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost,
    something is lost. But, if character is lost, everything is lost. The importance of our character and
    personality transcends any other measure of success of our existence.
    2.

    By definition, greed is a compelling “need” to constantly acquire, consume or


    possess more of something than is actually necessary or justifiable. You would
    experience this subjectively as an all-consuming lust, hunger or craving for
    something (money, sex, food, power, fame, etc…). This might be triggered by
    suddenly seeing the object of your desire, or an opportunity to go after it.
    Underlying the desire, however, is a terrible insecurity, a primal fear of lack or
    deprivation, though this is likely to be more unconscious than conscious. On the
    surface there is just the compulsion to satisfy the need. When the “need” is
    being strongly felt, you become compelled to commit a great deal of time and
    energy to seeking and acquiring your thing, setting all else aside. The only clear
    course of action, it seems, is to try and satisfy this longing because, after all, it
    promises to give you that long-lost sense of security. Others might question
    your peculiar commitment and determination, given that it seems you are
    willing to risk everything over this personal obsession. But you can always find
    a way to argue the case: “This is important to me. It will make me happy. It will
    make you happy too. And if I do happen to end up with more than I need, I’ll
    just give some away… Everybody will thank me for it!” Sometimes you might
    achieve success in getting what you seek. And in those moments when the
    elusive object of your desire is actually in your hands you experience truly
    intoxicating feelings of triumph and relief. However, these gratifying moments
    are all too brief… You feel that the “win” was just not enough. In fact, there is
    no such thing as enough. Despite all your best efforts, and despite every
    success, an abiding sense of security or fulfilment is never reached. The
    overwhelming desire is literally insatiable so long as the underlying fear is never
    addressed. You may then experience frustration at the transience of such
    pleasure, especially given the investment of time and energy. (“Was it really
    worth it?”) You may experience shame and guilt over the damaging effects of
    your actions upon your relationships, reputation, financial security, etc. (“What
    was I thinking?” “I’m hurting the very people I love.” “I’m ruining my life when
    it’s all been going so well.”) You may feel overwhelming anxiety over the
    uncertain future (“I’m on a slippery slope to hell”). All of this has the effect of
    evoking fear and insecurity, and a compelling need to fill that hole, and so the
    cycle begins again. You might experience all these at some level at once, or
    have different ones in your foreground at different times. Still, it is very
    comparable to a cycle of addiction, in that the desire becomes harder and
    harder to satisfy, so the target level of a “win” or a “fix” keeps going up, which
    in turn requires more and more investment of time, energy and money. There is
    also a greater cost to self-esteem, as you become more and more “enslaved” to
    the need. And of course, a greater cost to one’s other commitments, such as
    career and relationships, which compete for the same time and energy.
    3. The Bible classifies the seven deadly sins – greed, envy, sloth, wrath,
    gluttony, pride and lust – as the characteristics of people which will lead to
    unhappiness. One particular sin evident in our world today is greed. Greed is
    defined as an excessive desire to possess wealth or goods. The greed that
    exists in our world leads people to unhappy and selfish lives. Greed is evident
    through individual people, corporate companies and in our governments.
    Greed can bring out the worst in people. It can turn people into monsters: Greed is the
    emotion of people being jealous. An example is when people want money; the greed
    will take over until they cannot take it anymore. They might go and possibly kill the
    innocent people just so they can get what they want. That is greed and selfishness.
    Greed can seriously make you lose sight of everything that one had once had or loved
    and people get what they wanted and in the people become so disappointed. Greed
    really does do a person bad. It turns people into monsters, another
    example of greed is sometimes someone gets something that someone wants and it
    drives
    them crazy enough that eventually they feel like they have to take it because they
    wanted it so they take it without them knowing and then do not tell anyone that it was
    taken. Greed is a very common emotion for people to feel everyone feels it so people
    know how it feels. Everyone has some kind of experience with the feeling of greed, in
    some form, and knows how it feels.
    We must a hold of the idea “There is no such thing as enough.” See if we can
    feel its presence in our own mind, or some variation of it. Then affirm to ourself
    how illogical and destructive it is. See if you can decide for yourself what
    “enough” is – a specific level of income, for example. Instead of giving our
    attention to things we want but don’t have, be mindful to take real pleasure in
    what we do have. In other words, don’t just tick the boxes for the things we’ve
    acquired, then focus on what’s next on the list, but relish the things that you
    already have, with our wants.

     If we are aware of having a compulsion towards greed, try, try, try not to
    judge yourself too harshly for it. Greed is one of the traps that anyone can fall
    into. It’s not as easy to embrace as, say, self-deprecation because it so
    outwardly and blatantly selfish, which is socially unacceptable, even if the
    individual doing it hates himself for it. But just hating yourself for it solves
    nothing. However, being able to come to terms with it — to say “I have this
    problem. It’s like an addiction, but I’m dealing with it. I’m getting on top of it.
    I’m bigger than this thing. And I’m going to make sure no one is ever harmed
    by it again, including me.” — that’s heading towards a solution.

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