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Originally Posted by dream23  Yes i live on the material plane, but i consciously day in day out try not to give into its temptations. I perceive the material world as a test from God.
You are under estimating the power money has. It is not a tool like an axe. More people have died for money than they have over an axe.
And i disagree i believe your spirituality starts to diminish the more you focus on the material world rather than the spiritual. Your talking as if you can acquire wealth like a game and then not be attached to it. Subconsciously your ego will be attached to it.
I know ppl dont think Jesus and Buddha offered much ''social value'', but heres one teaching they both agreed on;
''be in the world but not of it''.
( apologies if i have offended the Pavlina followers, but this is something that i had to express. I am merely expressing and opinion.) |
You can be in the world, and enjoy the world but still not be "of it."
You do not know what is in everyone's heart.
As I play this game I am Becoming more and more "spiritual" (or living close to God-source as I personally like to explain it). Yes, I desire to acquire more wealth: financially is not the only way to be wealthy, but it is included in my list of ways to live wealthy. You are welcome to think I am evil, but my heart is filled with more love now than it EVER has been. I am appreciating life and offering my love and services more freely because I am no longer living with the "scarcity mentality." Or the idea that somehow being poor is more "noble" than having money.
I do want a nice house on the lake. I can ENJOY and CHERISH and HONOR that house, but if I lose it in a fire I will not think I lost "all." My source is not anything on this Earthly plane, but that does not mean we cannot enjoy things here. You can enjoy things and be happy and not have it be at the expense of others. It is possible, I do it everyday!!!
I am not saying you are wrong in your beliefs as you use them in your life. Obviously you live the life you choose.
Do you personally KNOW anyone who is wealthy? I have known many wealthy families (I was a nanny for an offspring of a very wealthy New York family). They were not evil. I quite enjoyed that family, actually, and they were very generous. They opened my mind to the possibilties of living with wealth. From that point on I have steadily been dropping my old "money is evil" thinking.