How the Work Book follows the Guide

Training Guide Entry

The story of the Midas touch is another example of the evils of the love of money. The story is about the unquenchable thirst for unlimited wealth. King Midas asks the gods for the power to turn everything he touches to gold. He does not realize that when given this power he ruins the ordinary things that have true value for everyday life. A twig and apple lose their value as real objects that can enrich human life when turned to gold. The irony is that he gives up things that really matter for something that corrupts rather than enriches life. The quest for money and then more money never ends. The love of money is a curse not a blessing. What if you touched a beloved pet and she turned from your best friend to a lump of cold, hard metal?

Work Book Entry

What if everything you touched turned to money? Would you be happy? King Midas had that power in the old myth and he though it ruined his life not made it better. No, you would spend your life wanting more and more so that nothing in your life had real value. Things that really matter like pets, food, water, family and friends would disappear in cold lumps of lifeless metal. If everything you touched turned to gold you could not eat a real orange, you could not even peel it.