We can't buy spirit with matter, they are mathematically incompatible.
Of course in the real world if you don't fulfill your basic needs(food, shelter, security) it is very difficult to spend time to grow the inner spirit because we are deeply involved in the material world.
The real success to me is to find the real self because materiality leads to false-self and isolation(an ideal-self).
To find (look forever) the real self, we must fight to see the real inner being, free of education and the moral judgment of the Super Ego, the real persona you would be without the influences of the process of socialization.
There are two paths to find it, the warrior and the hermit.
The warrior can get there faster but the risks are high, and the hermit that has a long but safe way, the choice remains connected to what type of person you see you are.
Nice post, and keep fighting to find your path to the inner microcosmos that has the same rules of the macrocosmic.