What is Sufficiency?

Listen to Lynne Twist talk about Sufficiency, Scarcity, Abundance and True Happiness

According to Lynne Twist, Special Advisor to the Global Sufficiency Network

“Sufficiency is the radical surprising truth about life. Sufficiency is the state of being, the state of knowing, the state of relating to the world that there is enough. And when you lift the veil of scarcity, when you get out of the chase for more and actually pay attention to what's already there, you start to see that life meets you exactly where you are and gives you exactly what you need. It's not an amount of anything. It's a way of being, a way of seeing, a way of living.

 

In fact, there is a principle of sufficiency that I believe really says it all, and that is: If you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need it frees up oceans of energy to pay attention to and make a difference with what you already have. When you make a difference with what you have, it expands. Another way of saying that is: What you appreciate appreciates. So, when we pay attention to what we have, when we let go of trying to get more, we can live in a state of being where we see that there's enough."