Is Money the Root of All Evil?

Money is the root of all evil.

You sometimes hear people say negative things about money and for the most part these are the people who have none.

Some people will tell you that money can't buy you love. While this is true, it is a ridiculous statement. Love is an emotion, not a product available at the local grocery store. Do people who say this believe that you think you can actually buy love? Are they just expressing negative feelings for money because of their lack of it?

No matter what people say about money, the fact remains that is a vital part of life today. Money remains the only standardized trade for goods, services, information, personal debts and travel.

Without money you can't properly educate yourself. You can learn the things you are capable of learning or expand your awareness.

Without money you can't afford to eat the food that properly nourishes your body and gives you energy and vitality.

Without money you can't spare the time to properly exercise or have the amount of leisure to relax and put your mind at ease.

Without money you can't spend any considerable amount of time doing the things you love, and this is vital to your sanity.

Without money you can't travel and experience or understand a variety of cultures and societies.

Are all these things evil?

No they are not. In fact it would be hard to imagine having the lack of happiness in the presence of the things listed above.

The fact also remains that the good you can do on this planet is strictly limited to your presence, without substantial financial backing. I am not telling you that you shouldn't personally help people. I am saying that while you are personally help people, the money you have could be traveling the world building schools and hospitals, food banks and recycling plants. Your money could be researching the cure for diseases and making advancements in solar power and bio fuel.

Are these things evil?

I think people would be amazed how much free time they had if they weren't worried about money. Free time they could spend doing a multitude of things that would leave the planet in a better state than it was before they arrived.

Are any of these things mildly wrong? So who could call them evil?

-Brendan

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Is Money The Root Of All Evil Or Is The Absence Of Money The Root Of All Evil?

Times are changing but not too long many people still held a firm belief that money is the root of all evil. An "evil" that cannot be avoided but should not be given too much attention, and should certainly not be chased after.

Some people still believe this... Is it a coincidence that most of them have a real shortage of money?

How do you feel about money? Chances are that although you may openly say that you like money and would love to get more of it that you may have subconscious "problems" accepting abundance in your life.

You see, a lot of us were raised that you need to find a good job and earn money to support your family but that you should not "love" money. Do you "love" money? What emotion do you have at the thought of "loving" money? Does it feel wrong? If yes, you are probably carrying some baggage with you that originated in your childhood.

Assume you don't feel comfortable with the idea of loving money. How do you feel about loving your dog or cat? Would it feel wrong to say "I love my dog" or "I love my car" or "I love my job"? Probably not. So what is really wrong about loving money? Take your time to think about it.

My wife went to school in a strict Catholic school in Belgium. She has often told me how certain nuns made a point of making the children feel guilty about having so much when there were children starving in other parts of the world, especially Africa.

If I have to choose between two equally extreme statements, namely "Money is the root of all evil" or "The absence of money is the root of all evil" I would choose the latter without a second thought.

Why did I choose "The absence of money is the root of all evil"? Well, I have been poor and I have been rich...

Being rich was certainly a lot better than being poor! I remember worrying about money, having arguments with my wife about our financial situation. Was not a pleasant time...

As I said, both statements are extreme. There are also many things money can't buy but just consider for a moment the positive things that money can accomplish.

Things that would not be possible without money, such as helping needy charities. Yes, you can help charities in other ways such as doing volunteer work but you can do so much more to help them if you have money.

You can do so much more with money than without money. Think of all the good things having money can achieve. Maybe now you will be able to say "I love money"?

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Is the Love of Money the Root of All Evil?

In society, money seems to be considered a necessary "evil" and religions have often used the phrase that "the love of money is the root of all evil". But why would something inanimate like money be the root of all evil?

It's got to do with how we as people, transfer our power to this medium of exchange. We're born with no real understanding of the abundant nature we are and so from the moment we arrive, we gather data to work out how we fit in with this world.

At some point, we work out that having money enables us to experience bigger and better things. And so the innate desire for expansion, desires more money to have that freedom to experience whatever is in the heart to experience.

But then we also gain an understanding that people have done bad things at times to get more money and so we grow up with this conflicted feeling within us.

On the one hand we want more money, but on the other, we may either need to take advantage of others in some way or be seen as a person with lower morals to get it.

This line of thinking is what happens unconsciously from a young age that then shapes the way we feel about money and those that have money as we become adults. But what's the truth?

1. Money is neutral, it's neither good or bad

2. People get lost In thinking that money will give them something more than it's actually designed for (like happiness for example)

3. People then place a higher value on money than the relationships with other people

4. The people close to the ones that are caught up in the money trap then think that money is the issue and that money is what's causing that person to behave in an evil or uncivil way

5. It's the thinking and interpretation of money that has led the person to take actions that may be less than compassionate towards other people.

In summary, the purpose of money is to be a mechanism where we can exchange one thing of value for another, in an easy to use form, it's not to make us happy or otherwise. The accumulation of money can be done in honorable ways or dishonorable ways, it all depends on your beliefs around it.

And finally, rather than the love of money being the root of all evil, I would say that to be ruled by money, or anything else for that matter, is the root of all pain. It's only when you realize your true nature and that you can have whatever is in your heart to experience in a way where not only you benefit, but everyone involved benefits, can you find the freedom to live a life that is truly joyous.

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Angelo Campione is a writer and publisher of Mindfulness related articles. He has real life experience in dealing with emotional pain and now walks the path that has him live a life of Purpose, Joy and Freedom. He is passionate about helping to raise consciousness and runs an online Mindfulness Series Free of charge.

Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Have you heard this phrase? Do you believe it?

Is money the root of all evil or is  it your belief of money that is the root of your evil?

Let me explain....

I was walking with my mother today in downtown Pacific Grove, CA.  We were waiting for the animal rescue to open so that I could give up my beloved cats; but, that's another story. 

While we were walking we were looking at the small shops on Lighthouse Avenue and one of them was a 'higher end' store and my mother commented as she passed, "too rich for my blood."

To a "T" it was the exact phrase her father, bless him as he's passed away, used to say as he would walk past a store that had things he wanted but never allowed himself to afford because of his limiting beliefs and his pure disdain of rich people.  He would consistently make the comment about rich people are A** H**es and then would wander into McDonald's for a cup of coffee and a sit down chat with others who shared his beliefs.  Like minded individuals bringing into their lives others who shared their scarcity values. My grandfather's beliefs were centered around a jealousy of an enviable position he wanted so to be in yet had no idea how to create it for himself.

Back to my mother and her comment... Her words were so succinct, so in form, so much a part of his (her father's) background and thinking that I surely thought he had embodied her for that moment as she spoke those words.  It was kind of freaky to tell you the truth.

My mother is a fisherman, a canvas maker, a sail maker, a woodworker, and a very creative and ingenious woman when it comes to creating something out of nothing.  But, like her father, she has limiting beliefs about money.  Money has always been a big problem because there has never been enough and as is normal for the baby boomers, they don't spend what they don't have.  Growing up with parents raised in the Great Depression, theirs is a consistent reminder of what they don't have:  Money.

Now that I have allowed myself to be reconditioned by the words of Jeffery Combs, Ferny Ceballos, Aaron "Parky" Parkinson, Jay Kubassek, Danielle Wilson, John Jackson, Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlecwicz and Jonathan Budd, to name a few, I listen to people with a clearer ear.  I hear the derision in their voice, the intonation as they say, "well, it's ok to want money, but you'll never be happy" as if to say that money will make you unhappy.  Because to them money makes them unhappy.  They never have enough, always want more and are consistently living in the poverty mindset that consumes 97+% of our population.

You don't hear any of the above-mentioned say they're unhappy... you hear them say that they'll wake up sometimes not feeling like the million bucks they've made, but that doesn't mean they're unhappy.  It means they're HUMAN.

Money is not the evil; it's your belief in money that is your evil.   Honestly, your poverty mindset serves no one, not even yourself.  It is a mindset of victim and it's weak.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be wealthy, there's nothing wrong with creating your own destiny.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to wait for a bailout, for someone else (e.g., the government) to pick up the slack in your life only to be disillusioned by what they told you would happen and what actually happened to your MONEY...

I am not afraid to put myself on a risky, slippery slope to create my destiny.  My goal is to make money and a lot of it.  My goal is also to help others make money, and a lot of it.  My goal is to have 240 people on my team by March 31st, 2011 creating $10k a month in residual income.  That's my goal.  There's nothing wrong with making money.  There's nothing wrong with wanting a better life than what you have right now.

This doesn't negate your current lifestyle. Just because you want something better in your life doesn't mean you're not grateful for your current state of affairs; it means you want to create better for yourself. There's nothing wrong with wanting better, wanting a better life, a better bank account, a better car or a better place to live for yourself and your family (four-legged or otherwise).

If you think you don't deserve to make money you never will make it. Just like my grandfather, bless him, he created his misery within his lack of courage to take the next step to create the destiny he so wanted in his life because he truly believed that money was the root of all evil.

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Money Is Not The Root Of All Evil

People who want to excuse their lack of ambition in life often misquote this verse of the in 1Timothy6:10 which says that "The Love of money is a root of all kinds of evil". It clearly says that the love of money is the root of all evil, not money itself. Thus if you grew up with a negative notion about money being drilled into you constantly by parents, such as "money doesn't grow on trees" or "who do you I am, Rockefeller?" or again " I'm not made of money", money and its accumulation may have a negative connotation for you. Maybe you think you shouldn't even have any ambition and be content with your lot in life. On the other end you might also have developed a bad relationship with money to the point where in your case, you do your best to accumulate money any which way you can, not caring who you have to crush to get there, perhaps you don't even care about others, you just care about spending your money and for you "money doesn't buy you happiness" should apply as you're probably not fulfilled, even though you've got everything you wanted, the partner of your dreams, the nice cars, the dream house, but you are not happy. Some people do the worst things we can imagine for money and that's where the love of money comes into play and that is what is bad, when we lose consciousness of who we truly are simply because we were told that it's a sin to love and want money or simply because we are willing to do just about anything to acquire as much money as we can. Either way, it's not a healthy relationship with money and that's why in both scenarios we are not happy and fulfilled.

There is nothing wrong with ambition, on the contrary, the more people who want to accumulate money the better, because the more money is created the more money we see around us, that's again The Law Of Attraction, there is more than enough for everybody. Now if you want to get into a debate as to why there are so many poor people in the world, whether it be in underdeveloped countries or even in London and the USA, that's simply because they have not yet learned in the West at least the principles of THINK AND GROW RICH and THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH, which teaches us step by step how to create money, accumulate it and retain it. Some people have not in some cases chosen yet that they do not want to be poor any more and find out what it is they must do to be if not rich at least comfortable. As far as underdeveloped countries, that's also a whole other debate, in some areas they don't even have running water, electricity (not because they didn't pay the bill) and enough food to make one decent meal a day. Some of them do not even have a concept that there is actually a better life to be had all you have to do is wish for it and work at it following principles and the footsteps of those who have been there.

That's why money is not the root of all evil, if you were told that it was wrong to want to be rich, know that it is not, learn the rules, the principles followed by every single one of the millionaires and billionaires of today, become rich, knowing that the more money you make, the more money is created and the more people you can help wherever you decide that you want to help. If you truly believe that money is the root of all evil and won't budge on that even though you know that if you had more you'd be able to help more people, that's fine, you choose and create your life and the paths you take. However if you've always been in two minds about this, then start by accepting that money is not the root of all evil but a tool that you can control to support charity work and help improve someone else's life. Those of you who have been accumulating money already like there was no tomorrow, who seem to have it all in life and yet are not fulfilled, share some of your money with others, get actively involved in supporting missionary work and you'll see that you'll then want to make even more not for yourself but because you'll realise that you need more than the millions you have already amassed to feed all the needy on the planet just for a day. I'm not suggesting that you give all your money away although some people have done that, I'm suggesting that we all decide that we will create more because, the more we create the more people we can help, and also educate them so that they in turn can start doing the same.

To you success

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