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From: Center for Action and Contemplation<\/strong> <meditations@cac.org<\/a>>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 07:23
Subject: Richard Rohr\u2019s Daily Meditations: Money and Soul
To: Peter Challen <peterchallen@gmail.com<\/a>><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations
Week Forty-One: From Accumulation to Abundance<\/strong>
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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Money and Soul<\/strong>
Richard Rohr articulates an opportunity for each of us to rediscover a \u201csoulful\u201d relationship with money.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0I\u2019m convinced that money and soul are united on a deep level. This truth is reappearing from the deep stream of wisdom traditions after centuries of almost total splitting and separation at the conscious level. There is\u00a0un<\/em>\u00a0r\u00edo mas profundo,\u00a0<\/em>a river beneath the river. The upper stream has always been money in all its forms, beginning with trading and bartering. The deeper stream is the spiritual meaning such exchanges must have for our lives. Money and soul have never been separate in our unconscious because they are both about human exchanges, and therefore, divine exchange, too.\u00a0\u00a0From my perspective, when money and soul are separated, religion is the major loser. Without a vision of wholeness that puts money in its soulful place, religion \u201csells out.\u201d Religion has allowed itself to lose the only ground on which awe and transcendence stand\u2014the foundation of totally gratuitous and \u201camazing grace.\u201d [1]

\u00a0Lynne Twist, founder of the Soul of Money Institute, understands the impact that our culture\u2019s disintegrated view of money has made:\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0For most of us, this relationship with money is a deeply conflicted one, and our behavior with and around money is often at odds with our most deeply held values, commitments, and ideals\u2014what I call our soul\u2026. I believe that under it all, when you get right down to it and uncover all the things we\u2019re told to believe in, … what deeply matters to human beings,\u00a0our most universal soulful commitments and core values<\/em>, is the well-being of the people we love, ourselves, and the world in which we live.\u00a0We really do want a world that works for everyone. We don\u2019t want children to go hungry. We don\u2019t want violence and war to plague the planet\u2026. We don\u2019t want torture and revenge and retribution to be instruments of government and leadership. Everyone wants a safe, secure, loving, nourishing life for themselves and the ones they love and really for everyone\u2026.\u202f\u00a0

Each of us experiences a lifelong tug-of-war between our money interests and the calling of our soul. When we\u2019re in the domain of soul, we act with integrity. We are thoughtful and generous, allowing, courageous, and committed. We recognize the value of love and friendship….\u00a0\u00a0In the grip of money, those wonderful qualities of soul seem to be less available. We become smaller…. We often grow selfish, greedy, petty, fearful, or controlling…. We see ourselves as winners or losers, powerful or helpless, and we let those labels deeply define us in ways that are inaccurate….\u00a0\u00a0In a world that seems to revolve around money, it is vital that we deepen our relationship with our soul and bring it to bear on our relationship with money\u2026. We can have our money culture both balanced and nourished by soul. [2]\u00a0\u00a0

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[1] Adapted from Richard Rohr,\u00a0What Do We Do with Money?<\/em>, unpublished notes, 2020.\u00a0
[2] Lynne Twist with Teresa Barker,\u00a0The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources\u00a0<\/em>(W. W. Norton, 2017), 11\u201312, 17\u201318, 19\u201320.\u00a0
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