A beautiful message, that is much needed, as we move forward into a world where we all need to become more empowered. Thank you for your response xxxxx

This is sheer magic.  And such an important plank in the way I choose to live.

EVERYthing seems to pivot around the idea of 'not enough".  Malls closed for Covid & shopping is tough?  never mind - we'll convince you that you're not enough and sell you a myriad of zoom classes, courses and distractions instead.  Urgh.  

I don't reblog many posts, but this one is a YES!  ***feels like Simon Cowell suddenly. 🤣

I really just want to scream to the world "enough". Can we just stop now please?

Also, you identified a lotta programs running in those "even thoughs". I see zero pointing fodder there! 😀

Yowch. It's early but I'm pretty sure I just read a buncha bitter sounding single mom stuff and she made us *all* sound like assholes.

This is a very powerful message, thank you for sharing it. As a woman, you have unique insight on how patriarchy makes us all feel inadequate to fit the equasion. From my perspective, if men felt deeply like they were enough, we wouldn't feel the need to control women.

I want to break free from this control and to celebrate the power of women.

I want to agree. Life would be easier if I could. But, I'm unable to embrace the idea that we are all enough, and I don't find radical self-love to be brave if you're a piece of shit; then it is cowardly, and an excuse not to try and better yourself.

I wonder if capitalism is truly predicated on the idea that we're not enough. To me it seems to be based upon an erroneous and destructive definition of what being enough is. We are taught to measure success through the accumulation of material possessions, the power we wield over others, or the amount of followers we have on instagram.

I believe the true measure of success is how much better you are today than you were yesterday. And of course, the word better here needs to be defined, for the average soul would too define that as having more as opposed to being more. I think a measure of improvement, is being happier in spite of not having; being less of a piece of shit in spite of the bullshit you have to deal with daily.

I just think it a dangerous idea, that we are all enough. I'm not opposed to us being forgiving towards ourselves in regards to our short-comings, but I think that forgiveness is only warranted when our mistakes are seen as lessons, rather than acceptable traits that we need not overcome. As an example, do you think the rapist or the murderer is enough? I am not sure that I do, or can.

It's hard and tricky to embrace self-love. I've come to realize that whenever I have no romantic partner I feel this huge void, this not-enoughness. Then I think of all the people I don't find suitable to be my partners and I'm saying to them: you're not enough. I also think: I deserve to be with someone that I'm attracted to in every way I desire because I love myself and I am good enough to receive this. 

I also see that is too rational. 

I am enough whether there is a partner or not. I am enough when I breathe with the intention of filling my body with precious air that is Love itself. And you explained it so well:

>There's no 'not enough' - simply is-ness - a beautiful, vibrating, achingly vital beingness that defies all attempts to make it something that can be profitted from, downtrodden, abused, ignored, used, sold, belittled, judged.

Thanks for this beautiful post, much Love your way 💚

This is such an important lesson and a hard one to learn. "Good" men, and Inuse the term loosely, cannot understand that society's pressures on women are little changed over centuries. The Husband is a case in point and when an example (other than _moi_ jumps up and bites him, he is surprised. It's no wonder so many seemingly normal women who have had seemingly _normal_ upbringings and life experience are, if one scratches the surface, are really wounded and scarred. 

This is hard and object lesson that is never done.

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I totally get this, we live in a world where we are forever chasing an "er" or oth"er" ;p

Ever since I bumped into a video by Marisa Peers and her "I Am Enough" talk, I have been drumming it into my daughter - I even stuck it up on her mirror as suggested by Ms Peers :D

>The entire capitalist model is built in YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH. 

Many in the capitalist model may well play this to their advantage, but we risk trying to find something to blame for our feelings of not enoughness, when it's a built in part of us with our need for acceptance and inclusion, the social creatures that we are. It starts as children, before they even know the desire to have "stuff" and hits us hard when we reach our teens. Then it takes years and years to figure out that we overcome it by realising we don't need to prove ourselves to the world and we can slowly start to accept ourselves for who we are. 

As always a wonderful post @riverflows. Good to see you still hammering out the great content. :)

# Enoughness...

https://youtu.be/R37zGA7OBO4

I forever telling someone who I knows is not perfect but beyond amazing in my eyes that he doesn't have to be perfect. It is so hard though for most to accept that. Perfection is a myth and if it were possible it would be the death of creativity. 

Fabulous write.

I like this post because it highlights all the paradigms that often limit and make people unhappy. Maybe what you say @riverflows of the capitalist system is true; But what I am clear about is that the socialist model (which is generally the nemesis of the capitalist and is sold as the eighth wonder of the world), is not better, but quite the opposite, it gives even more unhappiness and misery to the people. I know we are not on a political tirade, I just wanted to make that comment, with all due respect. On the other hand, beyond an approach based on the mode of production, I consider self-acceptance, self-love, loving oneself beyond all conditions is necessary. Of course, this love does not imply complacency and stop improving, but accepting ourselves with our pros and cons, and trying every day to be the most optimal version of ourselves.


Este post me gusta porque pone en evidencia todos los paradigmas que muchas veces limitan y hacen infeliz a la gente. Quizás lo que dices @riverflows del sistema capitalista sea cierto; pero lo que sí tengo claro es que el modelo socialista (que por lo general es la némesis del capitalista y se vende como la octava maravilla del mundo), no es mejor, sino todo lo contrario, le da aún más infelicidad y miseria a la gente. Sé que no estamos en una diatriba política, sólo quería hacer ese comentario, con todo respeto. Por otra parte, más allá de un enfoque basado en el modo de producción, considero es necesaria la autoaceptación, el amor propio, el quererse a sí mismo más allá de toda condición. Claro, este quererse no implica una autocomplacencia y el dejar de mejorar, sino aceptarnos con nuestros pros y nuestros contras, y tratar cada día de ser la versión más óptima de nosotros mismos.