These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 3: Pocket – Your Personal Economy.

• Week 55: Money and Happiness

• The happiness that money brings for people is basically for two contradictory reasons: either spending or saving. Look for the way that makes you happy in dealing with money, and do not exaggerate whatever way you choose.

• The way we deal with money is actually more of our destiny than it is our choice. Do not be ashamed of your destiny and face the challenges that lie in it patiently so that you can feel the greatest degree of peace and happiness.

• Money will not be even just a means to happiness if you think that all your happiness lies in it.

• The secret of happiness is greater and more complex than placing its responsibility on money alone.

• It’s not fair to blame our unhappiness on money while it didn’t even claim that it would make us happy.

• Happiness with an abundance of money is a more difficult challenge than happiness with its scarcity; at least in the latter case one wishes oneself to seize happiness when one’s financial condition improves.

• Money can indeed be a powerful cause of happiness if we realize that what we truly need is the amount that meets our basic requirements or a little more and absolutely not great wealth.

• One of the greatest challenges of happiness with money is that the more money we have, the more we need and spend, so much of what we used to consider luxury become some of our basic needs.

• The magic of money in achieving happiness lies in the fact that money is the means by which one can possess materials and even fulfill many emotional wishes. But it should be noted that the acquisition of any material and the fulfillment of any wish, no matter how expensive and valuable, are only means to feel happiness for a limited period and not the ultimate happiness.

• Away from money specifically, eternal happiness is an illusion humans insist on believing is reality and chasing it.