Mark 10:25 Impossible!

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle 

than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Think of someone gobbling up food in a concentration camp; 

with one hand he brings the food to his mouth, with the other he protects it from 

neighbors who will grab it from him the moment he lowers his guard. 

There you have the perfect image of the attached person.

So an attachment by its very nature makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil 

and is always threatening to shatter your peace. 

So how can you expect an attached person 

to enter that ocean of happiness called the kingdom of God?

If you learn to enjoy the scent of a thousand flowers 

you will not cling to one or suffer when you cannot get it. 

If you have a thousand favorite dishes, 

the loss of one will go unnoticed and leave your happiness unimpaired. 

But it is precisely your attachments that prevent you 

from developing a wider and more varied taste for things and people.

Attachments can only thrive in the darkness of illusion. 

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of joy 

not because he wants to be bad but because he chooses to be blind.

From The Way to Love