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

There is little that we accept so completely as the power and authority of money, and assumptions about how we should feel about it.

The kinds of connections that truly protect and preserve us are those that emerge from the context of sufficiency and the sharing, diversity, reciprocity, and partnership found there.

and it is life affirming. To recognize, lift up, and shine a light on the beauty of reciprocal relationships and interactions in our lives is to uncover vast reservoirs of existing wealth that we have taken for granted. In reciprocity there is nourishment and joy: I am there for you and you are there for me.

In our relationship with money, collaboration frees us from the obligatory chase to acquire more in order to feel we have enough, and becomes an opportunity to make a difference with what we have.

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The way money flows to you and through you to other purposes isn’t unrelated to your life. Does your money come to you through work, relationships, or perhaps existing wealth that carries the energy of nourishing, generative commitments and values? Or does it come to you through work or relationships that deplete or exploit you, other people, or th

In a you-or-me world, reciprocity and collaboration don’t fit.

No matter how much or how little money you have flowing through your life, when you direct that flow with soulful purpose, you feel wealthy. You feel vibrant and alive when you use your money in a way that represents you, not just as a response to the market economy, but also as an expression of who you are. When you let your money move to things y

Grounded in sufficiency, money’s movement in and out of our life feels natural.

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.