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POVERTY IS A STATE OF MIND
Sam Levinson, in his book entitled Everything But Money, says his family had plenty of everything — fights, neighbors, cockroaches, relatives — everything but money. The Levinsons were a poor family, but Mama Levinson, a woman with a good head on her shoulders, never told the children they were nearly destitute. She took a shoe box, slit a hole in the top for a money slot, and marked it “For the Poor”. All the extra pennies went into the box for those unfortunate enough to be poor, whoever and wherever they were. Mama Levinson had learned an important lesson of faith somewhere. Much of life is determined by the person you think yourself to be. If you think yourself to be poor, you are. More than anything else, poverty is a state of mind. This is a fact, as strange as it may sound. MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS ARE SIMPLY PROBLEMS OF PERSPECTIVE. Patrick Morley, in his book,…