Many believe that material possessions will make them whole, so they aspire to obtain more of them throughout their lives. The same people never feel complete because they always want more. Similarly, a glutton will hoard and constantly feed on things, aiming to fill a void in their souls, a void that can never be filled. What they don't realize is these are vein attempts to attain the limitless in a finite world. Every possession or binge is but a taste of the infinite, based on the illusion that it can be possessed. It cannot be bought or eaten for once fulfillment; it can only be received. The greedy and the gluttonous are forever grasping for air when they don't even realize it isn't toxic. They don't realize that they want the infinite, just as anyone does, but that those who reject possessions find it in more constructive ways, like art or music or meditation.
The greatest problem with humans is that desires are tuned to illusion and not creation. Material attempts at reading the reaching the infinite only prove how similar an activity it is to ascetics who have renounced worldly possessions. Those who seek the infinite inward instead of outward feel no need to gather wealth; all they need is already within their possession - the natural resources that behind the world together, not the manufactured fragments that tear it apart. Thus it is proven by logic that material possessions are not the source of wisdom, only imaginary toys that infants play with on their journey to a higher self.
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