Alright guys, sorry about the delay. The holidays came and went and it seemed that I had next to no time to finish this post. That and procrastination is a thing.
Anyways. Last time I left off asking the question, is scarcity the thing that drives everything? Are we really in competition with everyone around us?
I’d like to believe that there’s another way, a better way. It doesn’t have to be scarcity, competition, and conflict.
The other way is Gift.
This is gonna get kinda woo woo, but bear with me.
I believe that the center of the universe isn’t scarcity, but generosity. Sure we might have very real shortages of physical resources. People live in poverty. Fossil fuels will at some point run out. There are food shortages and there are people who don’t have access to clean water. Those are real issues that need to be addressed, but I’m not talking about that. The generosity I’m talking about lies deeper than that.
The generosity I’m talking about is the generosity you see when you realize that all of this is a gift. The Universe, God, Non-Personal Ultimate Reality, use whatever noun you’re comfortable with, gave you a gift. You have today. You have air in your lungs, and it’s a gift. This is the generosity that I believe lies at the center of it all. I believe that it starts with gift.
I believe that if we start in that place, a place where generosity under girds the whole thing, it changes everything. I no longer feel the panicked need to hoard things. I’m not in competition with everyone else around me. Instead everything I have is a gift. And from that place I can truly be more generous myself. I’ve been given so much and my only response is to try to be just as generous.
So does this mean I’m going to be more giving? I don’t know. I hope so. I do know that for generosity to really matter it’s going to have to start from a place of gratitude.
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