 money and spirituality. How do we think about these two concepts together? In this video I'll share with you three different views of it and I'd love to know which view resonates more with you or if you have a even a different view than these three. So the first view comes from traditional religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, maybe other religions believe this too, which is the sense that money is to be seen suspiciously and if you look at the saints of most traditional religions they are almost always poor and there's a there's a sort of putting poverty on a pedestal. Now to be honest I am sympathetic towards this view it's not my view now but I'm sympathetic towards it because I understand that money for us humans signifies security and power, prestige, pleasure because that money can get us these things especially now in the modern world and so when you put a human being in front of the possibility of getting security and prestige and pleasure and power it's easy to corrupt that human being into making decisions and doing things that are not you know really for the for the greater good right that that are more selfish. So money tends to make people selfish is the more traditional view and you know this is why there's that that old saying that money is the root of all evil which by the way is actually a misquote in the Bible 1st Timothy it actually says money is the root of all kinds of evil not the root of all evil just root of all kinds of evil that makes sense yeah money causes a lot of problems causes a lot of greed or corruption etc so that's the first view that poverty tends to be better for spirituality than than a rich person and Jesus says of course it's easier to for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God so so however you want to interpret those those verses that's the traditional view right less money tends to be more spiritual the second view is much more modern and it comes from it's been popularized by the law of attraction and Tihar of Ecker and like Joel Olstein and some some preachers but it's this idea of using spirituality quote-unquote spirituality to get more to get more money to get wealth you may have heard of the abundance mindset as this idea that if you are spiritual the spiritual practice in this view is to think abundantly and to see yourself in possession of whatever you want and so they call it spirituality right they and I think it's an unfortunate equation of calling spirituality these kinds of possession getting practices I think is really unfortunate but but I can see what they mean in that they call it spirituality because it's sort of like starting with your mind and with your emotions starting with the inner resources to manifest the outer resources and the the the the drawback of this idea that some people make the mistake of thinking well if I don't have money that must mean I'm not spiritual enough because if I were truly spiritual I truly connected to the inner resource and the ability to manifest and I could have anything I want right so anyway let me know what you think of the second view the third view which is sort of trying to find a higher or middle way maybe is that whether you are poor or rich you can be spiritual or practice your spirituality now unattached from how much is in your bank account and how many possessions you have so in other words a poor person can pursue their spirituality with integrity just as a rich person can pursue their spirituality with integrity and and with depth and so it's not about the actual quantity of money because again what's poor and what's rich right it's it's about the connection to the divine source and in your in the integrity of your spiritual path now regardless of how much money you have and so in this third view which you could probably tell is the one that I subscribed to at this time the idea is that no matter what your money situation is know that you will be taken care of by your divine caretaker however you think of that God the universe life the greater community you will be taken care of no matter what and therefore you can go as deep into your spirituality as possible so that you can find what's truly meaningful and and loving and joyful in life by practicing your spirituality no matter how much or how little money you have that's point number one point number two is if you are practicing your spirituality which is I think true spirituality is a profound sense of well-being or produces a profound sense of well-being that then allows you to serve more generously toward others and to connect more heart-to-heart with other people and when you connect heart-to- heart with other people and truly serve them in a way that's meaningful for them what becomes natural is that they reciprocate that's what we human beings do and so that is why if you are willing to truly plumb the depths to really go into your spiritual path and experience that sense of well-being and then from there you truly serve others meaningfully and connect with others generously and heart-to-heart you will tend to be taken care of you will tend to have enough and another part of I think spirituality is again finding a sense of inner well-being is gratitude for what you do have and remembering again and again moment by moment you will always be taken care of I hope this is encouraging for you and I look forward to seeing what your comments are and how you relate money and spirituality