Money is nothing more than one of the physical extensions of spiritual energy.

Money is like love in that it can flow freely within and around us or we can block it by our attitudes, beliefs and other writings on our walls.

We have a fascinating relationship with money and have many judgments about it.

Some of us think we have to work hard to get it and we believe that if others don't work hard then they must have come by their money dishonestly.

Others think that only greedy people accumulate it or that one has to step on others if one wants to get more than their "fair share."

Sometimes we judge rich people because they have too much money and then turn right around and judge poor people because they have too little.

Sometimes we resent rich people because we think they are lucky or have something we don't and then,

at the same time, resent poor people because they are "on the public dole."

Conflicts over money can destroy friendships on the one hand and cause us to "kiss up" on the other.

Money, money, money. Our attitudes about it are filled with dissonance.

It's an emotional subject because our security seems to be tied to it.

We need to "keep up with the Jones's" and yet we sometimes criticize the Jones's for what they have or how they use it.

Our own Mercedes can bring us joy and a sense of accomplishment. Someone else's Mercedes can be intimidating to us.

You know what is really interesting about our relationship with money?

It is one sided. Money has no emotions or judgments whatsoever about us even though we have many emotions and judgments about it.

Money has no idea what our attitudes are about it. Further, it doesn't care. It doesn't give one twit about the financial writing on our walls.

Our trials, tribulations, conflicts, etc. about money are all our own "inside jobs." In truth, we have no relationship with money.

Instead, we have a unilateral relationship within ourselves *about* money.

Our fiscal beliefs were written on our walls by our parents, teachers, preachers and society in general.

We read this writing constantly. It is our "truth" about money even though it is a fairy tale. It is waiting to be erased and replaced.

Our movies, books, TV, etc. are loaded with negative writings for our financial walls.

They often have a "message" about how money corrupts and how it instigates crime or destroys families.

Money doesn't do any of these things. It is how people respond to money that brings all this about.

Interestingly enough, there is plenty of evidence of the good that money can do.

It is all around us. There are b'zillions of dollars in charitable foundations in constant search of ways to spread healing throughout the world.

There is a major story in that. However, a movie titled "The BigBucks foundation that gives to the down & out" wouldn't sell well at the box office.

Touching stories of financial giving are everywhere but they don't often make it into the media.

Our perceptions about money (most of it illusory) have been written on our walls (mostly by non-experts) ever since we were two feet tall.

I call this questionable bit of wisdom the financial "nitty gritty for the itty bitty."

This programming is very expensive and most of us pay for it throughout our entire lives.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny

anything negative is erasable and replaceable, of course, but the first step is to recognize the fiscal fiction within.

Change begins with thoughts. This is true whether we want to change social structures or our own income.

money is inert and has no opinions about anything. It is completely unaware of, and doesn’t care about, our individual attitudes toward it.

You can have a positive opinion about it by USING it to finance environmental awareness with it.

You can bring about programs designed to make a shift toward change and equality for all.

You can finance spiritual growth if you want.

More money gives you more options.

Whether you choose to go the route of the greedy plunderer or the spiritual altruist is up to you.

However, as long as you equate the generation of ALL financial abundance as something negative, that TAILENDER will be a limit you place on yourself

 Living "sustainably and lightly from one’s deepest ethical principles" has nothing to do, in my experience, with how much money one has.

It only seems that way. Once you get behind that notion, however, and recognize that this link is simply a fiction written on your walls,

you take your first steps out of that confining room into the more expansive rooms that await you in the Palace of Possibilities.