There are 50 cards in the Mother Teresa Wisdom Deck, each with a different insight or inspiration. The cards are great to have for times when you could benefit from the wisdom of one of the wisest women ever to be on this earth (who couldn’t benefit?), or even just during a low time when you could use a new way of thinking about the world.

The wisdom of the five cards we chose to give you here is about poverty:

* A person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If he puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

* Abandonment is an awful poverty. There are poor people everywhere, but the deepest poverty is not being loved.

* There are thousands of people dying for a piece of bread. There are thousands upon thousands dying for a bit of love.

* We have no right to judge the rich. What we desire is not a class struggle, but a class encounter, in which the rich save the poor and the poor save the rich.

* Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Poverty is freedom, so that possessions don’t keep us from sharing or giving of ourselves.