More Is Not Better

Do you go to bed at night thinking of all the things that you didn’t do that day? Do you wake up feeling like you didn’t get enough sleep? Are you worried that there isn’t enough time or money or possible love partners in the world for you? Author Lynne Twist calls that mindset living in the myth of scarcity, and we need to break it and live instead in sufficiency which is a place of wholeness, completeness and a deep understanding of who we are. This myth of scarcity is toxic to our humanity and translates from “I don’t have enough” into “I am not enough.”

When we let go of trying to get more of what we don’t really need, it frees up energy to pay attention to what we already have. She encourages everyone to nourish, love and share what we have and it will expand. Our culture foments a chase for more which is a pathological addiction. We need to step back from thinking of scarcity and pay attention to what we have in every way – to see ourselves and others as already complete no matter what conditions we are living in.

I came away with these ideas: sharing expands, nourishing heals, abundance appears in different forms, more is not necessarily better.

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