 Hi everybody, I've had a rough night, last night, and this might be perfect, actually, perfect opportunity to reflect on the spiritual principle of enough-ness. Okay, so how does this relate to my core values? First of all, let me explain. If you haven't seen, if you're interested in my random spiritual musings, I have another video called the Gratitude Lens, L-E-N-S Lens, and in that video I talked about these values of gratitude, lightness, eternality, nexus, and safe stage for giving and receiving love, and I'm changing the letter E from eternality to enough-ness. And the reason is because I've realized it's always been such a core principle of liberation for me, enough-ness that, yeah, it's and I, it's never enough, it seems to be reminded of it. That's the only thing that's not enough, is to be reminded of it again and again and again. And so that's what I need. Everything else is enough, except for the need to be reminded of enough. Okay, but even whatever amount I'm reminded of it is also enough, of course. Okay, so what does this mean, and how is this so liberating for me? Well, first of all, by enough-ness, you know, usually we think about material things, like, oh, it was I, whatever things I have in my life are enough, I don't need more. Whatever money I have is somehow magically going to be enough because I'm still here. You know, we might say to ourselves, and we're all at different financial situations, but it is true, isn't it? Like, yes, many of us feel like we're poor or don't have enough, and yet look at you, you're watching this video, you're probably sheltered. Okay, but even if you're not sheltered, I think always of my spiritual hero, Peace Pilgrim, I mentioned her as often as I can feel appropriate to do so, and if you have not yet heard her audiobook, it changed my life. I mean, that's part of it really added to my commitment to enough-ness, and so check out her audiobook. It's free to listen to completely. It's on the internet. It's SoundCloud has the free Peace Pilgrim audiobook, and it was life-changing for me to listen to that. I've heard that several times, and I need to go back to listen to it again. Now, she was living a life I don't think most of us are called to live, maybe, because she was homeless, and was homeless for most of her, or yeah, for pretty much all her adult life, and just walked from one end of the American continent to the other end of the American continent, and just back and forth, literally walked, just walked from one, and just slept on the sides of roads, slept on concrete, many nights slept in forests, ate berries from the bushes. That's how she survived, and she never asked for food, she never asked for money, never asked, and she never took money, actually. That was her commitment to never take or spend money, and she never even asked for food, she never begged. She just kept walking until someone noticed her, and gave her food, and gave her shelter sometimes, but otherwise she'll just sleep out in the open. She got used to sleeping in the cold, in the hot, everywhere, on concrete, many times, and in abandoned homes or whatever, not breaking in, but you know, just like open abandoned shelters, whatever. Anyway, so I keep mentioning her, because her, and she was people's, and she just helped people wherever she went, and if someone needed help, she just helped them, and people who saw her said she was the happiest person they ever met. So, her example always reminds me that no matter how little we have, there is always a way to discover enough-ness. I mean, she's an extreme ultimate example, having literally nothing to her name. She just wore a tunic, and that's it. But how does this relate to those of us who are not called to be homeless? How does this relate to a spiritual principle of liberation? All right, here's how. Every moment I realize, this is my reminder to myself and perhaps useful to you, every moment there is enough to sustain me for this moment. Now, I have, my life hasn't been that hard, right? I haven't been to jail, I haven't had to live on the streets, and yet, obviously, I've lived in city, so I've seen people who have lived on the streets or whatever, and I've talked with them. Strangely, they prefer that to living in shelters, because living in shelters, you get your stuff stolen, you get some mean people, you get anyway. So, like, even people who live, and it's like, whatever stage of life we're in, the moment we're in right now is somehow magically enough, and enough-ness disappears when we start thinking, well, I hope tomorrow I have enough, right? When we start thinking of the future, oh, we might not have enough in the future. That's when enough-ness vanishes. And when we come back here, and to this very moment, somehow like, the universe is giving me enough right now. I don't have everything I want, right? Want also vanishes enough-ness, but I have everything I need to stay alive right now. And, of course, even if we don't stay alive, if it's time for us to, our bodies to expire due to illness, due to whatever reason, well, in my worldview, in my opinion, we pop out of our bodies and see that, oh my god, the entire time, and this is back to the eternality principle, oh, the entire time I was just playing this game called the Earth Life in this avatar physical body that made it seem so real that there were so many limitations of time and energy and physical health and willpower, love, it seemed like it was limited, but actually my soul, when it's liberated, has unlimited everything. There was always, there was always enough, but of course in this game, it doesn't seem like there's enough. And yet, isn't it true, again, that this moment seems enough, this moment, if we let go of tomorrow, if we let go of even the next hour, if we let go of, oh, the next moment. So let me continue applying this to more than just physical things, material objects. It's also enough if my partner doesn't behave in the way that I think she should, that I want her to behave in this way. So for example, one day my partner wasn't feeling well, actually this principle I was reflecting on, things started happening. Like yesterday, my partner was having some emotional turmoil because of some things happening in her life, and I wanted her to feel fine because that makes me happier when she's happy. And so typically my natural and probably male mind happens to a lot of guys, try to fix the situation. Oh, what can I do to make you feel good again? And of course, I could do some things, but there are some many things I can't do to fix her emotions. And then I remember this principle of enoughness. I'm like, okay, even if she's feeling that way, that's, I lean into enoughness and say, that's okay. You might say acceptance of reality, right? That's basically what I'm talking about, acceptance and surrender to reality and say, okay, no matter how she's feeling, and no matter how I'm feeling, because I'm not happy when she's not happy. That's enough too for this moment. It's enough for her to be whoever she needs to be right now. It's enough for me to be whoever I need to be. Now I admit, I wasn't the best partner yesterday. When I wasn't happy, she wasn't happy. And I, you know, I'm sure I could have behaved even more spiritually, but that was enough for that moment. And right, again, this is also related to forgiveness, forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others. Like that's enough. It's enough. Whatever's happening right now is enough. And so let me talk about last night. I had a rough night, as I mentioned at the beginning of the video. We live in a home. We live in a home that has very little insulation because we live in a place where that's one of the benefits is it's such good weather year round that the houses don't have to be well insulated. Like a lot of the windows or several of the windows have like enough fully closed. It's just like you just bend the glass panels to be more open or less open, you know, and it's not fully closed. And so what happens is we have somewhere in our neighborhood, someone is burning something all night long, like heavy, heavy smoke. And it smelled like there was a heavy smoker inside our home smoking cigarettes. I don't know if it's cigarette anyway, but I was, I have very sensitive sense of smell. And so I was, I was having a very hard time all night trying to sleep. And I couldn't tell anybody because I didn't even know where I was coming from. And, and then I remember this principle of enoughness to say, even though, I mean, to be honest, I felt like I was being tortured. Because like with, with sound, because sometimes there's loud music in our neighborhood, I could play on earplugs. I could turn on, you know, the fan or whatever. But with smoke, I mean, we have an air filter, but it's does nothing compared to the infusion, the entire house with heavy smoke. And of course, we got up in the middle of night, 4am finally decided to tape, tape up the windows with, with plastic, you know, with our garbage bags or whatever. But anyway, the idea again is I had to surrender and say, even, even though I'm like imagining myself getting lung cancer or whatever, like imagining all the spat smoke coming, even that is enough. Even this experience of extreme unpleasantness, this very moment, I'm still able to breathe, even though the air I breathe is not good air. I mean, even right now as I'm recording this, this is the morning of, and I still very much smell it in the air, but it's not as bad as last night, thankfully. It's still enough. It's enough. Whatever I'm experiencing is somehow, again, this is so helpful that I believe I have this opinion of that it was all designed for our growth, for my growth. I somehow designed all my experiences of difficulty, struggle, suffering, or at least challenges for me to grow, to grow. And it was, as I looked back last night, physically very uncomfortable. And I was thinking about my dog and how my dog's sense of smell is even, you know, 100 times more, whatever dogs have. And I'm like, and my wife, thankfully, her sense of smell is not very good. So she wasn't suffering very much, but I was suffering greatly. My dog, I'm sure, was coughing several times throughout the night, but what can we do? Except taping up the windows. Anyway, so it's like, no matter what's happening, I grew from that experience of realizing, surrendering, it's enough. Like, the more I said, this is enough, whatever's happening right now, enough to be grateful. It's my core values, gratitude, lens begins with gratitude, always at the foundation of it. It's like, whatever I'm going through, there's something that I can find gratitude for this experience of growth, of learning, of loving, of receiving love. And there's always love being given. There's always love abundantly being given to us by God, higher self-consciousness, eternal source, whatever your favorite way of putting it is. There's always love being abundantly, abundantly throughout the entire universe, every molecule, even the smoke that I smelled, breathed in last night, at first unwillingly, was filled with love. And eventually as I realized, oh, even this is enough, and this is okay, even this is, you know, we did the best we could, and this is enough. And even this breathing in of air is love. It's enough, it's more than enough. It's grace, divine grace given to us in every moment. So I, then this principle is liberating for me because, I mean, just in the day to day, thankfully there isn't usually unpleasant smoke or emotional issues or whatever. But day to day, I'm working, my business goes up and down like everyone else's business. It's enough, it's enough, it's enough. And there's up or down, it's enough, it's enough, it's enough. And not that enoughness doesn't make us do things, right? Like there's a balance here, that old saying of trust God, but tie your camel. The idea, don't let your camel be stolen, you know, I guess maybe this came from the cultures that had camels, that rode camels. Trust God, but tie your camel. Same idea, like last night with the smoke, like, oh, okay, there's something we can do here that taught us a new skill of taping up our windows. Like, we've never done that before here, or any, or maybe once before in life we've done it, but it's like, here, okay, this is how we tape up windows. This is how we work together, collaborate together, do this. And she showed tremendous compassion because she thought of the idea and she was like taking, you know, taking initiative. My wife was taking it, I'm like so grateful, right? And then after you did that, that's all we can do for this time being and, you know, trust God, tie our camel, we're practicing both, and that's enough. And so same thing in business or in anything. It's like, do what we can. And even as we do it, we are also still practicing enoughness, practicing gratitude. As we do it, as we try to tie our camel or secure our roof, leaky roof, whatever, do that and then trust and then, you know, do more, always in trust and then always trust, even when we're not doing. It's enough. So anyway, I hope this is helpful in some way for you. Thank you for watching and I wish you a wonderful, wonderful day.