Ep. 140 – Sufficiency: There is Enough Time, Love, Money, Everything

Scarcity is the felt sense of separation.

Sufficiency is the felt sense of being held.

Enough is not something that we manifest.

It's what remains when the heart rests.

Teresa of Avila, one of my favorite saints, summarizes everything I want to say today in three words.

God alone suffices.

The mother is the ground.

Sufficiency is knowing that love is enough.

It's not about getting enough.

And I want to make very clear that this is not a talk about the law of attraction, where you believe so hard that then you expect money or time or love to show up.

It's not scarcity leading to abundance, but scarcity.

really transmuting our sense of scarcity into trust and then sufficiency.

Sufficiency is the fruit of surrender, not a technique for getting something.

We're not treating God as a cosmic vending machine, where if I surrender, God's going to give us the good stuff.

So in a way, what we're talking about here is what in the past I've called spiritual healing.

There are levels of healing, and the deepest level of healing is spiritual healing, where you're not dealing with what needs to be fixed, the illness or the lack of money or the lack of time.

You're not even dealing with the person who feels that she or he needs to be fixed.

You're dealing directly with with the illusion of separateness, with the illusion of scarcity.

So no matter how much money you have or don't have, how much time you have or don't have, how energetic your body may or may not be, can we, underneath all that, begin to receive this sense of Sufficiency, trusting that it is there.

Discovering that love is enough in an age of fear.

Finding the courage to trust in uncertain times.

My other favorite saint, in fact, my favorite of all Christian saints is Julian of Norwich.

And she lived during a very trying time.

There was a plague going on.

And during her lifetime, there were three different Catholic popes.