https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66 Fernando Aguilar en-us 2018-05-16 17:41:48 UTC 2018-05-17 13:36:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261335949 You will not be surprised to learn that materialism is increasing. Still, you may be astonished to learn just how great its growth has been. In 1966, 42 percent of UCLA freshmen said it was essential or very important to be "very well-off financially." Today, nearly three-quarters of the freshmen agree with them.]]> 2018-05-16 18:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261335949 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261338810 Nothing could be more important than to grow in our love for God, divine Spirit, and to value the timeless and spiritual, placing less and less trust in the finite and material. It is, after all, materiality that underlies mankind's suffering]]> 2018-05-16 18:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261338810 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261345962 “At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.]]> 2018-05-16 18:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261345962 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261576018 The world is always saying to us if you just buy that designer-label pair of jeans, or if you wore that expensive perfume, or if you drove a fast car, or if you got that cosmetic surgery, oh well then you would be happy, then you would be fulfilled.]]> 2018-05-17 13:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261576018 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261576599 If you can go so long without your material possessions, you’ll realize that you don´t need them to live a full and happy life. We have made ourselves believe that our luxuries are a necessity. ]]> 2018-05-17 13:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261576599 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261578600 2018-05-17 13:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261578600 1860716 https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261578997 2018-05-17 13:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1860716/ksnfzo29hr66/wish/261578997