What do sufficiency and wealth have to do with each other? Does our sufficiency depend on our wealth or does our wealth depend on our sense of sufficiency? Yes and yes but lets start with defining wealth. What is wealth? Is wealth defined by money or things or the mass accumulated of either? Many would say yes or those who would say no may still act as if this were true. I would argue that wealth is something more than a bunch of money or things. Wealth is whatever we give value to….food, loving relations, a healthy planet, fun experiences, time…even lint etc. Wealth is also more than just an accumulation of these valued things or experiences. It is first and foremost the flow of these experiences or things. Indeed, it is the allowance of all that life has to offer. Once we start trying to accumulate experiences or things, we limit that flow. Flow, by definition, goes up and down, in and out…it moves. Accumulation tries to force the flow only in one direction, usually up, which is contrary to life.
If we feel truly sufficient, we have no drive to accumulate. We feel secure and OK within and are not worried about the future. We simply appreciate life in the moment and its experiences and move on to the next moment. We let things come to us, we appreciate them and then we let things go from us and we trust that Universe will provide what we need or want. This doesn’t mean that we can’t have an abundance of money or things. These may come to us at various points in our lives but they may also go. We need not become fixated on accumulating them. True wealth is allowing the flow and abundance of experiences in our lives. Sufficiency provides a foundation for this allowance.
Next post I would like to talk about banking and the stock market.