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Writing into abundance
Abundance is not a measurement. It’s not about having things, or acquiring ‘stuff’, Epicurus tells us, but about enjoying life, delighting in the everyday pleasures that surround us. Abundance comes in those moments when we are truly alive to the present and in how we connect with all life.
Finding the moments of abundance
I’m often taken by surprise at how much life can change with a simple shift of perspective.
When we are viewing life from a sense of overwhelm, it’s so easy to fall into the malaise of seeing everything around as in terms of what is lacking. We’re more apt to think of life as pinched and mean, and, to act from fear or projections. We saw this in the UK during the first lockdown, with strange and unnecessary shortages of basic things: toilet roll, pasta, surface cleaners… People felt or feared, rather than experienced, that there was ‘not enough’. And the sense of lack became a self-fulfilling prophesy as people panicked and over-bought these commodities. A story of ‘not enough’ became an actual scarcity that never needed to be.
But the opposite can also be true. Marcus Aurelius advised that the first thing we should think…
