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You must go within or you go without. ~Friendship with God

Most people want a lot of “things” in the material world such as a beautiful home, a hot car, the perfect partner, and so on. Material well-being, we come to realize in C.D.A., always follows spiritual progress, never precedes it. The principles teach us that when our priorities lay with our spirituality and our integrity, all else falls into place. Many of us have thought that if we had abundance in material possessions, we would naturally be spiritual. But if we are not spiritual without them, what makes us think that gaining material possessions will add one wit to our spiritual progress? It is spiritual substance not material wealth that will cause the increase. Acquiring spiritual substance is cultivated by going within. The manner in which we cultivate our inner garden will ripen on the outside. We reap, as a by-product of the inner cultivation, all that we ever desired without.

When I seek inner spirituality over materiality,

material gain usually follows.

We have found it absolutely necessary to separate the material from the spiritual, allowing nothing to divert us from our spiritual goal.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 91