Temptations

[Shin'Ar]

Therefore whoever is free of sin may cast the first stone. I'll pick it up and take it home ^.~

You and Lynn both hit on some keen points, but overall this is not just about the methods we choose to designate a value to any item, or whether true spirituality can be found in the rich as well as the poor, or even if riches can be a burden to attaining spirituality. These are all good points for consideration, but my OP was meant to point out, that regardless of those matters, the human tendency is to self satisfy a 'self' that is a temporary identity, even to the ignorance of the evolving true, permanent identity.

The human tendency is to please a delusional self that does not even really exist, as though this delusional self will somehow continue in other incarnations.

I used Siren's quote because she hits on a matter close to my own situation being married to a devoutly catholic wife. She often used to say to me, ' I will pray for you' as she left for church, implying a need to have my sins forgiven.

And I would respond by saying 'pray for yourself my dear, you are the one who thinks you are sinning, and yet continues to do so anyway. I do not acknowledge sin, so I have not sinned.'