Three recent experiences helped me start to think about A Sufficient Future: One – It occurred to me as I was doing yoga this week and making a transition from one pose to another and then my wanting a block and moving towards the block and coming back to my mat, that not only was…
How do I be all I want to be? Read all I want to read? Clean all I want to clean? Clear all I want to clear? Eat all I want to eat? Own all I want to own? I WANT . . . Are wants a weapon of scarcity? When I want I am…
I made a deal with the devil and I did not even know it, not until my husband got cancer. (I know I told you all Id write about currency. That is coming but now I’ve been thrown a curve ball by life and want to share the insights from it.) So here is the…
Sufficiency invites us not to get rid of stuff but to allow our stuff to be part of our flow, the in and out of our lives. The gifting, the exchanging, the transferring, so that our stuff, our relationships, our ideas and our love can be part of the back and forth rhythm of life.
I have just finished the Beacon Press imprint of Gandhi an Autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth (1957). Although I found M.K. Gandhi’s writing style a little irksome I am intrigued by his experiments and I wonder what, if anything, they have to do with sufficiency? What are my truths? What could my…
What of this ever-changing-ness that I so want to control? What excessiveness am I bringing to that? Like overeating because I am tired, or talking too much because I am nervous; do I over-think, over-plan, over-practice, over accumulate knowledge, friends, money or things to protect myself from the uncertainty?
Sufficiency is fleeting and I must relearn it over and over again I was born knowing I was enough and I forgot I remembered at five and yet I forgot I held it at 10 and yet I forgot I glimpsed it at 20 and yet I forgot I mastered it at 40 and still…
We got interviewed, fun! And we got asked lots of juicy questions about sufficiency and sustainability so in lieu of a new entry we want to invite you to check out: http://www.rbruer.com/a-question-were-not-trained-to-ask/. YOu can meet our colleague RIch Bruer this way too.
Telling the Truth is an act of Sufficiency. The Neutral Zone of a transition, the “gap” between events – of endings and beginnings – is some of the most fertile and open terrain of our lives, waiting for cultivation and ripe of creativity. Paradigm shifts occur in the neutral zone and start by telling the truth.
Over the past three weeks we have looked at what it takes to break free of our personal money trap: We stop letting the number in our wallet, trust fund, checking, savings and or our retirement accounts define us or our opinion of others. (part one) Understand how to be responsible about money without allowing…