"St. Francis: that is already a great deal . . . But since his time money has become spriritual - an element that soars and ventures far beyond the category of tangible possessions, something almost independent of its possessor, an atmosphere beyond any possible contrast.
The task now is to find a new poverty as counterpart to this new type of 'wealth,' all of which has now retreated far into the realm of the invisible.
We can always pretend, through external imitation, that we are poor; but real poverty must be born anew in the soul, and there will probably be nothing Franciscan about it."
Rilke qtd in Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat, p 115
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