Money

"Money is not my god or my devil. It s a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving"
Dan Millman

If you won a million dollars tomorrow, do you think you will be a changed person? Now that you can buy anything you want, will you want different things? Probably not. We've all heard that "the love of money is the root of all evil". We have all heard that people with a lot of money are selfish. But that's not true.

If you suddenly had all the money you could use, wouldn't you use it to buy what you already wanted to buy. You would use it to produce more of the things you value, or perhaps to get rid of things you don't want. If you valued education, for ex, you might want to use it to build schools in Afghanistan. If you valued art, you might want to use it to support the arts in some way. If you valued white supremacy, you might want to use it to put black people down (and this is the kind of place where perhaps money got its bad reputation). The point is that when you have a lot of money, it tends to illuminate your values and make them very clear to the world. It tends to make you more of who you already are.

Another problem with our ideas about money is that we tend to see it as the solution to all our problems so we become desperate to have it. Sometimes we will compromise all our goodness in order to get it. In this way, the love of money often really is the root of evil. Look at all the scams out there, for example. We haven't learned yet that we all have the capability to attract money while doing things that are good for other people too. We don't need to compromise who we are. We need to know the powerful and good person we really are and celebrate that.

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