to have or to be?

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being." Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I've been to a lot of estate auctions. I've been a collector.

I've heard the same comment over and over,"How did they get so much stuff in that house?"

We are a nation of collectors, many of us base our self esteem on our ownership of things.

When we die it all gets sold off and forgotten.

You will not be remembered for what you have. You will only be remembered for what you have done, for the kind of person you chose to be. The sooner you come to grips with this simple fact the sooner you will find what you are looking for in your life.

File under personal development.