Money

How important is money, really?

Over the past few years, cash has slowly disappeared from everyday life in many so-called developed countries. We pay with a card, a phone, or even a watch. We shop online, subscriptions are charged automatically, and our bank account has become little more than numbers on a screen. Convenient, of course. But something else has disappeared along the way: the direct feeling of money.

When you used to leave home with a hundred euros in your wallet and came back in the evening with twenty, you didn’t need to be a financial expert to understand what had happened. Your wallet was probably the simplest accounting system in the world. Today, money disappears almost silently. A tap here, a click there, another subscription automatically renewed… and at the end of the month we wonder where it all went. Money is becoming increasingly abstract, while strangely enough, we seem to be thinking about it more and more.

And perhaps that is why I find a certain development within what is sometimes called “spirituality” rather uncomfortable. Write 3-6-9 on your hand and money will start flowing toward you. Activate your pineal gland and abundance will follow. Use a certain frequency, visualize a million in your bank account, and apparently the universe will almost be obliged to deliver it. Sometimes even billionaires are presented as evidence that all of this works. As if Elon Musk or the Rothschilds built their fortunes because one Tuesday evening they happened to listen to the right singing bowl.

That honestly gives me the shivers.

Not because money is wrong. Money is incredibly useful. It provides freedom, possibilities, comfort, and it can remove many worries. Someone who is constantly afraid of not being able to pay the rent, buy food, or cover the energy bill has little use for romantic stories about how unimportant money is. Poverty is no more spiritual than wealth.

But something gets turned upside down when spirituality becomes a method for getting rich. Then we are using the idea of inner freedom to strengthen the very thing we were trying to become free from: the belief that there is still something outside ourselves that we must obtain before we can finally feel complete.

First it was: When I have that car, I’ll be happy.

Then: When I have enough money, I’ll be free.

And now, sometimes: When I become spiritual enough, the universe will make me rich.

The wrapping changes. The desire remains the same.

Perhaps, then, a far more interesting question is not: How can I get more money? but: What do I actually expect money to give me?

Security? Recognition? Freedom? Peace of mind? Love? The feeling that I have succeeded?

Because underneath all of that lies the question almost all of us carry with us:

What is happiness?

Perhaps happiness is not something we can possess at all. Not an amount of money. Not a condition that finally appears when everything in our lives has been perfectly arranged. Perhaps happiness is much simpler: a state of being in which, for a moment, we need nothing in order to be complete. Inner peace. Presence. The quiet joy of simply being.

And from that place, by all means, earn money. Buy a beautiful home. Travel. Build a business. Enjoy everything life has to offer. Money doesn’t need to be rejected.

We just don’t have to give it the job of making us happy.

That may simply be far too much responsibility for a piece of paper

…or these days, just a number on a screen.

With love and light,

G.