Are You a Financial Advisor to a Monastery?

The monastery is a microcosm of the world, he says. "You can either be spiritual or you can be wealthy, but you can't persade me both" A brother in the community refused to touch money at all for any reason because he thought it polluted the soul. He became increasingly self righteous and judgmental about his lack of wealth. The monk realized that poverty can feed your ego as much as wealth.