Greed Part 5
November 14, 2025
Greed Part 5
A giving heart is the antidote to a greed-ridden heart.
A giving heart is not ruled by fear of scarcity but overflows with abundance that displaces that very fear.
A greedy heart is often born of deprivation. Somewhere along the way, we were denied what we needed or had something precious taken from us. The loss wounded us deeply, and we recoiled. To protect ourselves from future pain, we fixated on keeping what was ours.
Stinginess and greed arise from our disconnection from the soul quality of Sacred Benevolence. After the trauma of deprivation, the ego constructed a strategy of self-preservation: If I hold tightly to what I have, I will not suffer again. But this belief severs us from the divine flow of giving and receiving — the living current of love that sustains all souls.
When we are cut off from that flow, we feel that everything depends on our own effort … that we alone must gather, store, and defend what we have. In this isolation, the heart forgets how to bond and how to trust. Sacred Kinship, the soul’s natural way of interdependence, generosity, and shared blessing cannot flourish when giving is withheld.
Greed and stinginess may preserve one’s possessions and offer the illusion of safety, but they ultimately cause great suffering. Few people are drawn to the greedy heart; many turn away from it. And when the greedy person inevitably faces loss, they find themselves needing the very good will they withheld. In that loneliness, they experience, again, the deprivation they most feared.
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol captures this truth perfectly. Ebenezer Scrooge, the archetype of greed, suffered greatly until he became conscious of his lack of love. His frozen heart began to thaw only when he faced the pain his denial had caused. Through awakening to Benevolence, his heart was healed, he reconnected to Sacred Kinship, and he rediscovered his soul.
Spiritual practice: Notice something someone else has that you might also desire. What part of yourself might this thing symbolize? Could it be pointing to a deeper quality of your soul that is already there?
Self-inquiry: What about greed unsettles you, and why?
Prayer:
Dear God, Keep me so rooted in your overflowing love that I never act from scarcity. Amen.
