“When the soul is ready to be born anew, the old world collapses. The money dries up, the work disappears, the relationships end. It looks like failure, but it is protection. The poverty is protecting the fragile new life until it can stand on its own.”
“We have to be willing to live for a while without what we thought we needed. The poverty that follows is not punishment; it is the soul’s way of protecting its own birth.”
“In the interval of poverty, the ego learns humility. It cannot create the new life. It can only wait, tend, and trust the process.”
“The soul cannot be born in a mind that must always be right, or in a life that must always be secure. The birth of the soul requires surrender, and surrender often looks like poverty.”
“When we are stripped of what we thought defined us, we are left face to face with the essence that cannot be stripped away. That is grace in its most terrifying form.”
“Transformation is not a linear ascent. It is a descent — a going down into the ashes until we discover that the fire was never meant to destroy us, but to reveal what cannot burn.”
“The feminine knows how to live with the empty cup. She trusts that when it is time, life will fill it again. The masculine must learn this trust, this poverty, this waiting.”
“We are all being forced to live the poverty of the soul in a culture addicted to accumulation. The challenge is to let the poverty open us rather than harden us.”
“Only when we have lost everything we thought mattered do we discover that what remains is enough. That is the paradox of the soul’s poverty — that it hides the greatest treasure.”