Ownership applies to things; but investment extends beyond things to include the ideas that change who we are.   
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Shame is the avoidance of confrontation with Truth. Humility is the outcome of confrontation with truth.   
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Many new-age psychologists and NLP practitioners argue that the subconscious cannot interpret a negative instruction. This is not true. There is another reason, however, to avoid a face-to-face confrontation with negative thoughts.   
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Hashem could have made the world in a way that we did not need to trade with one another. But He didn’t. At least after The Sin, He built trade into the Creation.   
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The physical and metaphysical attachment of an individual to his property can only be transferred with an action (kinyan) that expresses a soul (intention)   
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The laws of ownership are both rational and divine. Through the Torah, Hashem teaches us how to think about ownership and commerce in ways that harmonize the human and the G-dly.
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Fear is a choice. We are not harmed by the things we fear, we are harmed by the fear itself
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When an agent does something for us, we don’t owe him the gratitude; we owe gratitude to his principal. When an individual does something on his own accord, we owe him the gratitude
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The way we view the world will impact the choices we make. But the opposite is also true: The choices we make impact the way we view the world 
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The choice to do something is only a value if you also have the choice not to do it. If you are motivated to do something by your survival instinct, that is not a value choice. The Torah gives us choice to ensure that what we choose to do is an expression of our beliefs and values. 
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