The Paradox of Abundant Living in A Scarce World

Issue #11 October 21st 2019

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” ~Truman Capote

I spend a lot of time talking throughout the day and also a lot of time listening, consuming, and trying to “think”. It is probably why the quote above by Capote stood out to me as something to kick off this Monday’s issue.

When it comes to living a wealthy life we often find ourselves running into the law of polarity as it relates to focusing on either the abundant or scarcity side of reality. In the Upanishads, (ancient Hindu sacred treatises that were written in Sanskrit between 800-200 B.C.) it was said that,

“From abundance, he took abundance, and still abundance remained.” ~The Upanishads

Juxtapose this sacred truth with the physical reality that 2000 to 2500 years later India under British rule was hit by recurrent famine from 1760 AD to till 1943 AD, and you have a true example of scarcity. As per British sources, th…