Recently we experienced a large ($300,000, our life savings) financial loss due to the unethical and probably illegal behavior of our financial advisor. Through meditation and given my current impression of reality, I realize that this loss is both meaningless and sacred. If I was “of” this world I would consider this of huge importance and that it called for various actions in retaliation and attempts to get the money back. I would feel fear and anger and probably cause a great deal of chaos. Alternatively, being “in the world but not of it’, as stated in my book, I could feel love, faith and compassion. I have done what I can to get my money back ,while also feeling that “the universe is unfolding as it should” (Ehrmann). The sacred part is that I acted out of love and feel nothing but love and compassion for the man that caused this.
