英语短文 有关自我价值

Self Value
Those of us who are on a spiritual path are, strangely enough, the first most likely to turn down offerings of money. You often hear comments that connect money to being un-spiritual. When money is tied in with something spiritual, it seems to arouse suspicion and questions of integrity.

This is an ongoing battle with spiritual people. We don’t want money to be an issue.

But it is. The world runs this way. And no matter how much we’d like to protest that system, we live in it. We want to be good citizens, too. We want to pay our rent and taxes and live peacefully, just like everyone else.

Why has it become so damn hard for us?

We’re making it hard for us.

We’re judging ourselves.

We’re assuming money is somehow immoral or wrong.

This could be due to past conditioning, society’s views of lack impressed upon us, that if we have and don’t give, we lack compassion. That’s the last thing a spirit