I'm sure someone will come up with a way to explain it, but I, personally, cannot. It has been a major stumbling block in my personal spiritual struggle: the desire to cast it all away while at the same time wanting and/or needing so many things that require money.
Even to go live in the world without home, money, etc. you still have to have money to survive. If I were to sell all I own and walk away now - even knowing how to survive in the wilderness - how can I? The government owns the only land that I would be able to live on and they wouldn't allow it. I'd have to buy (with MONEY) some land to live off of. And it wouldn't stop after I'd purchased the land. I'd still have taxes to pay on it annually, etc. So even on the simplistic level, it does seem impossible to achieve.
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