ON ABUNDANCE

ON ABUNDANCE

Abundance is not the money you have in your bank account, the trophies on your shelf, the letters after your name, the list of goals reached, the number of people you know, your perfect body, your adoring fans.It is your connection to each breath, how sensitiveyou are to every flicker of sensation and emotion in the body.

It is the delight with which you savour each unique moment, the joy with which you greet each new day. It is knowing yourself as presence, the power that creates and moves worlds. It is your open heart, how deeply moved you are by love every day, your willingness to embrace, to hold what needs to be held. It is the freshness of each morning unencumbered by memory or false hope.It is the feeling of the afternoon breeze on your cheeks, the sun warming your face. It is meeting others in the field of honesty and vulnerability, connecting beyond the story, sharing what is alive.

It is your rootedness in the present moment,knowing that you are always Home, no matter what happens, no matter what is gained or what is lost. It is touching life at the point of creation, never looking back, feeling the belly rise and fall, thanking each breath.

It is falling to your knees in awe, laughing at the stories they tell, sinking more deeply into rest. It issimplicity. It is kindness. It is you, before every sunrise, fresh, open, ready... and awake.You are rich, friend! You are rich!

- Jeff Foster