Poverty and Wealth (from a metaphysical standpoint)

What is wealth?

Is wealth a circumstance determined by how much money one has?

What is the value of money?

Essentially money is nothing more than a piece of paper with ink printed on it – not much different than the thing this writing is printed on (if you actually decided to print this article). Not withstanding the fanciness of the design on money, money is actually remarkably unextraordinary. And save for the value we assign to it, money is empty of any real worth. It is only because we have decided to give money a quantitative value that money has become a valuable resource. We work to acquire it and then turn around and trade it in for the privilege of owning or possessing certain things for a time. The “money game” is a game of skill which most of us expend great effort to fare well in. In a metaphysical sense, however, what we are actually doing is going to great effort to bargain for things which are (literally) already ours. Think of it… We place an arbitrary number of values on the material things which are representative of our desire, then drive ourselves to fever endeavoring to feel like we’ve acquired the value we have set, when all the while these numbers are actually meaningless. We, being the creators of numbers, the creators of values, can claim for ourselves any of that which we have created. Every one of us is priceless. It is one of the greatest ignorances one can have about their self… to assign value to something and then deem yourself beneath the value or worth of your own setting. This is what the state of poverty really is – the undervaluing of self worth. This underestimation of self worth can only come about when you don’t have a clear and distinct understanding of who you really are (as Spirit).