07-20-2010, 06:18 AM
That is indeed a very good question. Great quotes also Q.
As I was growing up, 'being rich' was associated with financial stability/wealth. Having never being driven to earn excess money and live the extravagant material accumulation lifestyle, it's fallen from my 'preferred vocabulary'. Upon reflection, this has identified a very long-term, deep rooted pattern/distortion within myself that has remained, hidden, for years.
A definition:
Today, I would use this adjective (or similar) in the sense of points 4 and 6 more than any other (as my definition of abundance is akin to Bashars), for example:
"A rich collection of colours"
Thank you norral, for a personally enlightening post.
As I was growing up, 'being rich' was associated with financial stability/wealth. Having never being driven to earn excess money and live the extravagant material accumulation lifestyle, it's fallen from my 'preferred vocabulary'. Upon reflection, this has identified a very long-term, deep rooted pattern/distortion within myself that has remained, hidden, for years.
A definition:
Quote:1. Possessing great material wealth: "Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric".
2. Having great worth or value: a rich harvest of grain.
3. Magnificent; sumptuous: a rich brocade.
4. Having an abundant supply: rich in ideas.
5. Abounding, especially in natural resources: rich land.
6. Meaningful and significant: "a rich sense of the transaction between writer and reader".
Today, I would use this adjective (or similar) in the sense of points 4 and 6 more than any other (as my definition of abundance is akin to Bashars), for example:
"A rich collection of colours"
Thank you norral, for a personally enlightening post.