The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

Money used this way connects us to the whole of life, rather than money becoming an instrument that separates and fragments us from each other. That kind of prosperity is available to everyone, whether they are people with massive resources or people with moderate or fewer resources. Using money as a direct expression of one’s deepest sense of self

I challenge you to use your money, every dollar, every penny, every purchase, every stock and every bond, to voice this transformation. I challenge you to use the money that flows through your life—and it does flow through all of our lives—to express the truth and context of sufficiency. I challenge you to move the resources that flow through your

So I offer this as an every-man-and-woman, every-day, possible way of engaging in this arena of money, this flow that runs through every relationship, whether it is with our mother or father, husband, wife, aunts, cousins, friends, employer, employee. Money is never really absent, and we can use it as a mirror for understanding who we are and what

also invite you to live a larger life—to see that when we really look at what we’ve got and let go of trying to accumulate more, we have the capacity for much greater lives than just “getting” and “having.” Everyone wants more than the good life for just themselves. They want the good life for all, and when you realize there is enough, you get in t

even its state of voracious greed, as a kind of evolutionary phase. It is such a fitting metaphor for our time.

What we buy, what we invest in, what we purchase for others, what we choose to finance and contribute to can make our world. The principles of sufficiency connect us with deep truths and soulful values that we can use to seed a future of satisfaction and freedom and selfhood in the face of a driving mythology of scarcity and lack.

Lining money up with our soul, with our deepest dreams and highest aspirations, is the source of our prosperity, rather than simply having more of it to work with.

As a colleague of mine has said, the job of our time is to hospice the death of the old unsustainable systems and structures and to midwife the birth of new sustainable systems and new ways of being. To hospice those systems that have reached their limits and are unsustainable is not to kill them, but with some compassion and love, to witness their

Seeing my children as my “elders in universe time” was a surprising and inspiring thought.