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…
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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…
I spent much of today at the hospital, waiting. I thought about bringing my computer and I did bring the book chapter I am writing and my crochet set. I was supposed to be there for two hours. Is that enough to occupy me I wondered? More than enough actually. More than I could possibly…
An Asset Inventory is taking stock of our non-monetary or intangible assets, the resources we have internally in ourselves including: spiritual, psychological and physical, as well as the resources available to you from your family, your community, previous experience, alliances and networks. Often when we do this, we discover sources of support we were not yet aware of or parts of our life had not yet considered something to appreciate.
To break free of the money trap we start by stopping to define ourselves by the amount in our bank accounts (part one). We then understand when we are being responsible and when we are in Fantasy Land while keeping ourselves grounded in sufficiency (part two). The third and final step is to reallocate the…
Consciously moving through a transition is an act of Sufficiency. If we flow through our change – accept the end, the murky gap, and the beginning of what is new – if we allow the change and all our feelings about it, if we do not resist, but honor what occurs as our unique process and response, then we are in Sufficiency. Mourning is the action of letting go, the active rewiring in our brain and of our habits. I assert that mourning, like any part of the transition process, is an act of sufficiency. Mourning’s function is to make room for something new to arise. To do this, we investigate and unpack our associations with the person, place or thing that we are letting go of and let go of those too. What are you making room for these days?