Under Construction - MHWA Retreat

"Money doesn't buy happiness!" Money can purchase contentment, but not happiness. After 72 years of struggling for everything I have, and now realizing that I can't take it with me when my soul and body part company; I'm sure that money doesn't buy happiness. Happiness is a spiritual attribute, which we develop while our bodies and souls work together on this material plan.

There is nothing wrong with have material things, as long as one doesn't become attached to them. A person can lose material things in numerous ways, if an individual is attached to the things they are going to become depressed and unhappy. I always like to remember the following quote from Paris Talks:


I'm not to the point where 'Abdu'l-Baha was when he gave that talk in Paris on November 22, 1911. I'm still attempting to become detached from the things that I have collected over the years. I'm working on detachment and spirituality through prayer, meditation, bringing myself to account, and reading the sacred writing.

Footnotes
1  Part One: 35 - Pain and Sorrow