One of the sad realities of our modern existence is that fame, wealth, and fulfilling our ego’s desires are more important than finding our true purpose and higher path of consciousness.
There is a balance we need to find between making money and finding true creative and spiritual fulfillment. It is achieved through finding our true self. We need to pay the price and look within.
We are never too old to find our true path and purpose, to awaken consciously, but we often have to reach an exhausting point where everything we have tried or done exhausts us or drains us.
Happiness is a balance between finding our true path of expression and persisting through trust in the universe until we see a reward for our efforts.
This is not easy, because the reward could take a considerable amount of time coming before it is realized, if ever. There is no guarantee that if we follow our true path of growth in awareness that material wealth is the outcome.
Our primary reward is conscious growth into the nature of reality and the healing of karmic issues. Wealth, if attained does not guarantee happiness. In most cases it creates more problems and sadness than we imagined. People not born or schooled in wealth management are not prepared to handle it and many go bankrupt in a short time.
Fear and a lack of trust in ourselves and the universe are the main reasons we sell out to the idea that wealth or money are the answer to happiness and peace of mind. The vast majority of people sell out at an early age to gain wealth in the hope it will give peace of mind.
Money does take the pressure off from the cost of daily living, but if we are motivated by fear we can pay a higher price for family, relationships and peace of mind. The motivation to live from and build a life through fear hardens our ego against inner growth and healing. This is why it is said you cannot serve both God and mammon.
Money is not bad, in face it is necessary, but when we make it our god we start down an obsessive and all consuming path of personal self destruction of ourselves and maybe others.
We may build an outer world of wealth and splendor, but within become bankrupt morally and spiritually.
Robert