Money & Spirituality – Do They Mix?
The hoary argument that you cannot have both – spirituality and abundance – continues to proliferate and entangle the minds and experience of many seekers.
As a culture, we constantly deal with the subconscious remnants caused by the conflict between money and spirituality. We have allowed toxic ideas to pervade our unlimited essence like a virus destroying our intrinsic right to wealth and fulfillment.
Ideas such as ‘money is the root of all evil’, that ‘it’s easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven’, and that ‘if you are rich, then you must be either a crook, selfish, or hardened’ abound in the global consciousness poisoning our natural right to wealth.
Additionally, the infamous subconscious impression amongst many spiritual practitioners and seekers, ‘you cannot be spiritual and a servant of the Divine, if you charge for your talent or knowledge’ continues to be the self-imposed prison that forces many spiritual workers to thrash about in a sea of lack.
These are just an infinitesimal sampling of the money-and- spirituality-don’t-mix disease.
Indeed, if one becomes consumed with the pursuit of wealth from the external vantage point, their spiritual unification will be compromised. They may achieve wealth but at the cost of the fulfillment of their divine destiny and at the expense of personal peace.
On the other side, when one pursues spirituality as their premiere directive there is a point at which they will meet a fork in the road. They will be met with the decision to remain singularly dedicated to their personal, individual, self-seeking spiritual pursuits or expand into a