The following is taken from the introduction to the Upanishad:
Materialism reinforces a “paradigm of scarcity”: there is not enough to go around, so we are doomed to fight one another for ever-diminishing resources. Spiritual economics begins not from assumed scarcity of matter but from the verifiable infinitude of consciousness.
“Think of this One original source,” Plotinus said, “as a spring, self-generating, feeding itself to the rivers and yet not used up by them, ever at rest.”
Or, as Gandi put it, “There is enough in the world for everyone’s need; there is not enough for everyone’s greed.”
The appearance of scarcity overcomes those for whom, as the Upanishad says, “the world without alone is real.”
There is no scarcity of love, respect, meaning – the resources of consciousness. Such is the timeless wisdom of the Upanishads.
This is taken from THE UPANISHADS, introduced and translated by Eknath Easwaran, a classic of Indian Spirituality.
Namaste