The Treatment for Miserliness

Ebenezer Scrooge

The treatment for miserliness is realizing that those who achieve wealth usually do so only after exhausting themselves over long periods of time, working for it day and night. Meanwhile life passes on, and the time runs out. The culture of wanting more for the sake of more can literally occupy a person for life.

Reflect long and hard on the fact that just as people climb the heights of affluence and start to achieve what they have worn themselves out for, then death assails them without invitation. When death takes us and moves us on, our wealth stays behind for others to wrangle over and spend.

One must also realize the level of disdain shown to misers. Nobody likes a miser. Even misers loathe each other. Realizing the hatred people have for misers is enough to turn one away from their disease. [Purification of the Heart]