The root of all evil

In the West, we reward ambition. From a Sufi perspective, it’s a disease. Rumi: “All of our suffering results from raw greed and from the desires of the self and its itching palate.”

The sin of the calf

Money is not the root of all evil. Love of money—plain old selfishness—is the grossly swollen tuber. The most important and least understood of the 10 Commandments is the first one.