The secret of spiritual and material balance

Main subjects

SpiritAVAlexander VolchekSpiritual development and the spiritual pathBalancing the spiritual and the materialFearTruth

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00In this episode
• 00:35The central fear: “If I turn to spirituality, I will lose money”
• 01:45Where the divide between money and spirituality begins
• 06:25What spirituality is
• 07:45Money as a result of spiritual causes
• 09:35How to measure a person’s spiritual development
• 21:48What to do: practical steps for money and spirituality

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 03:16

  “I am pursuing spiritual development, and now I wonder: will there be no money in my life, or can I somehow bring money into it? I am afraid that if I start focusing on money, I will no longer pursue a spiritual life or spiritual development. I will have no spiritual development.”…

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• 03:57

  I had a partner who was very wealthy, a billionaire, and even then I devoted a great deal of time and attention to spiritual development.

  Alexander Volchek

• 04:18

  At one point they said, “What does your partner think about this?” I said, “What difference does it make what my partner thinks? Why does that matter?” It mattered to them because this person had a billion dollars.

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• 05:53

  So, again, some people see a direct consequence: if I intensify my spiritual development, I will have more money.

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• 07:45

  So if the world is spiritual and the material is part of it, and money, too, is a consequence of the manifestation of the spiritual world—a consequence within the spiritual world—we have to understand that the reasons some people have money, the reasons some have money, are always spiritual…

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• 09:19

  What is the error in thinking when someone says, “I do good things, and I have money”?

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• 11:12

  If we use this concept at all, we use concepts such as other lives, incarnations, spiritual beings, God, archangels, angels, whatever it may be.

  Alexander Volchek

• 15:07

  People are told that this person comes from a line of Brahmins stretching back eight hundred and sixty-seven incarnations, or something like that, and they already believe it all. They are already on their knees, even the most unbelieving people, complete atheists.

  Alexander Volchek

• 20:02

  Dima, on this question of measuring spirituality, it is crucial to understand something basic and tell yourself—and I mean the people watching this video and those around us—“As a human being, in most cases I cannot identify another person’s spiritual nature or level of development, because I have nothing to go on.”

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• 23:26

  But if you know that everything has a spiritual cause and allow for that, observe it from the sidelines. Do not try to manage something you do not understand.

  Alexander Volchek