Embodiments of the Divine! Do not fritter your days in attaining affluence with material possessions, which are often impediments in the journey of life. Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows! Money is not true wealth; it loses value, it bloats the ego and hardens the heart. If you do not allow money to circulate, it will destroy your health, as surely as bad blood will! Do not take it amiss, for, I am telling this only out of the fullness of My love for you! Worldly achievements develop conceit, separate one human from another! Your heart contracts and shrinks your sphere of awareness of the Divine! Love is expansion and expansion is Divine Life. God can be realised only through love. Without love in the heart, your heart is a desert; God will not reside therein. Sow pure Love; it will blossom as compassion and tolerance, and yield the fruit of everlasting peace (shanti).

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1970.