“Financial freedom has little or nothing to do with the amount of money or assets you possess. If you are stockpiling money and assets believing that this makes you secure, or if you are fearful that without a stockpile you are doomed to poverty, then you are truly shackled by your fear of the future, and have made yourself a slave to your illusions about security.”

— Spotted Eagle

Spotted Eagle teaches that a stockpile of resources which is tied to our fears may bring us more conveniences, but it is incapable of truly freeing us to live joyfully. He tells us that when we place our faith in hoarded resources, we have placed our faith in the illusion that money will shield us from pain and loss. If you follow the fortunes of celebrities whose personal tragedies make headlines in the tabloids, you can clearly see that money offers us no protection from suffering.

Spotted Eagle says we are infatuated with money because of our fantasies about what it would be like to want for nothing. Intoxicated by this fantasy, we blind ourselves to the truth that material luxuries alone will never satisfy our deepest longings for the things that give life its richness, like unconditional love, joyfulness, creativity, spiritual connection and peace of mind.

If we are to have a profound experience of the essence of financial freedom, we must discard the belief that freedom is about the amount of money and assets we may possess. If we attach our perception of freedom, or the lack of it, to the amount of money and possessions we have, our happiness is destined to be dashed on the rocks of our neediness for a security that does not now and never will exist.

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