Category: Meditations

Sometimes our greatest sense of abundance comes from the privilege of being able to share with someone we love.

When has sharing brought you joy?

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt

What does economic progress look like to you?

National Coming Out Day was created as a way to encourage gay, lesbian and bisexual people to “come out of the closet,” to take a step, however small, toward living openly as their full and authentic selves. Whatever your sexual orientation, there really isn’t a bad day to take the next step toward living more authentically as who you really are.

What about yourself do you keep hidden that you would really rather share openly?

Somewhere on the other side of abundance lives gluttony, a state in which we grab all that we can in a frenzy of desire, out of touch with what we really need, with what would truly make us feel satisfied.

What helps you to get in touch with your genuine needs in the moments when gluttony threatens to overtake you?

“…Love should
grow up like a wild iris, but doesn’t, it comes from
the midst of everything else, sees like the iris
of an eye, when the light is right,
feels in blindness and when there is nothing else is
tender, blinks, and opens
face up to the skies. “
—Susan Griffin

What opens your eyes to love?