The push to become better subtly reinforces the idea that being as you are isn’t enough. What quiet pressure comes with that belief?
https://dualisticunity.com/most-self-improvement-is-just-fear-wearing-a-smarter-outfit/
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Why Self-Improvement Feels Exhausting — And What’s Actually Driving It - Dualistic Unity
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Ich habe heute nichts „geschafft“.
Und trotzdem bin ich da.
Ich bin kein Projekt. Ich bin genug.
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The Subtle Violence of Never Being Enough - Dualistic Unity
Being enough is treated as a conclusion to reach rather than a condition to notice. What shifts when arrival is no longer required?
https://dualisticunity.com/the-subtle-violence-of-never-being-enough/
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Why “Working on Yourself” Can Become a Trap - Dualistic Unity
Maybe the trap isn’t growth—but believing you must be different before life can finally be okay.
https://dualisticunity.com/why-working-on-yourself-can-become-a-trap/
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This is… provision
Provision isn’t always abundance.
Sometimes it’s just enough,
enough light to see one step ahead,
enough softness to rest your bones.
Jehovah Jireh, not as a name whispered in church,
but as a reminder that somehow, things keep showing up.
The right people, the right words, the right timing.
Even when you thought you’d run out.
It’s the reminder that you are met where you are.
That somehow, what you need keeps finding you.
Not miracles… moments.
A call,
a smile,
a quiet day that didn’t demand performance.
La misericordia vestida de cotidiano.
Gras la nan ti detay yo.
It’s not magic; it’s rhythm.
The pulse that says: you’re still held.
Even here. Even now.
It’s mercy disguised as ordinary.
A reminder that you’re still carried, still covered,
even by the unseen.
A reminder to ask for help
and having the grace to receive it.
You don’t have to deserve it.
You don’t even have to understand it.
Just notice it…
the gentle ways life still provides,
the quiet proof that you are not forgotten,
a nudge that says you don’t have to fight today.
This is… provision
The quiet proof that you’ve never walked alone,
even when it felt like you did.
written from the house of quiet · archived by archive 4 · entry #08
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Rediscovering Your Value: A Journey to Building a Foundation of Self-Worth Poem
This poem is inspired by my blog post ‘Rediscovering Your Value: A Journey to Building a Foundation of Self-Worth’. You can find the full post here:
Lesson 129: Rediscovering Your Value: A Journey to Building a Foundation of Self-Worth
You were born enough—long before the world taught you otherwise,long before comparison dimmed your lightor someone else’s voice grew louder than your own.
But…
Rediscovering Your Value: A Journey to Building a Foundation of Self-Worth Poem
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Truth moves quietly.
The Quiet Mission by Lars Bergmans-Dorr is one of those projects that speaks to the soul about building with meaning, trust, and enoughness in a world chasing “more.”
🌱 Read the story here:
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Cultivating “Enoughness”
Every once in a while, a word drops into my lap and refuses to let go. This week it was enoughness. I first used it when talking with our Enso Circle Continuing Residents about wabi-sabi and the endless challenge of cleaning and organizing a studio.
Here were those observations about the difference between “normal” intent and “wabi-sabi” mindset:
Conventional Studio Clean-Up
Striving for…
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Wisdom Wednesdays #9: The Echo of Enough
In a world that urges us to keep climbing—toward more success, more improvement, more validation—it can feel almost radical to pause and ask: What if I’m already enough?
We’re often taught that growth means never stopping, that our worth is earned through productivity, perfection, or comparison. But true wisdom, the kind that settles deep in the soul, whispers something different. It says: You…
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The true cause of our unhappiness isn’t lack — it’s confusion. Enough isn’t found in more things, but in clearer meaning, deeper gratitude, and living aligned with what truly matters.
Why Nothing Ever Feels Like Enough: The Hidden Cause of Unhappiness
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Some days I just have to allow the Not Doing Of Things.
I am being utterly “unproductive” today because I Need It.
Breathe, and eat, drink water, watch birds, read.
I am enough, I do enough, this is enough.
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Thanksgiving and Enoughness | Happier meditation
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That’s Worth It
One of the reasons that I started this blog was to leave actual imprints. The imprints that are left by my journey so far (shouting out to Sam and Dean Winchester 😉) like the ones I discuss in That’s My Disappearing Life. I have to admit that I sometimes confuse myself with my ideas on the past and the future.
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“In a time that would have us believe there is always more to strive for, more to accumulate, more enlightenment to reach – the most radical stance we can take is enoughness.
What if we quit trying to be spiritual and aspired to be human instead?
What if there is nothing to fix because we are already whole?
What if there was no time to prove ourselves, because we’re consumed with marveling at life?
What if there is no reason to hold back our gifts, because they are meant to be given?
What if every morsel, every glance, every moment and every breath is a miracle of enough? ”
- Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)
Photo by Norman Parkinson (normanparkinson.com)
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“I am learning to rest inside the word enough
its rough leathery consonants, its f of finitude.”
—Alison Luterman, from her poem “Sustain.”
Link to the whole poem: https://www.poemist.com/alison-luterman/sustain
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WORD OF THE DAY
Monday, February 21, 2022
OED Word of the Day: enoughness, n.
The quality or fact of being enough; sufficiency, adequacy.
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“As I get older and probably farther away from my youthful beauty..I feel most settled into the truth of my ‘enoughness’… I feel enough.”
- 2012, Wonderland Feb. 146
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“We begin by dissolving our limiting beliefs around our self-worth. We remap our brain concerning the rules we’ve learned around work, busyness, and money. We learn to play fluidly and listen to our body’s responses. We redefine rest as anything that charges our energetic batteries and practice it often, not just when we’re completely drained. We permit ourselves to be imperfect. We practice stillness until we can surrender to it.” -Jennifer Bauer
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Back to our Roots: How Important is Speaking Spanish for the Latinx Identity? » BoldLatina
The ‘enoughness paradigm’, as Denise Soler Cox calls it, is the idea that there are some requirements Latinxs have to fulfill to be ‘Latinx enough’ (a topic that has also come up in conversation with other interviewees of BoldLatina, such as the founders of Latinxs in Gaming). This paradigm, of course, can turn out into a victimizing situation for American-born first, second or third-generation Latinxs who, for whatever reason, don’t speak Spanish. And, as the Pew Research Center has reported, the share of Latinxs who don’t speak Spanish is growing in the US.
As Soler Cox presents it in Being Eñye, the documentary she co-directed with documentarian Henry Ansbacher, this paradigm produces a feeling of being “two people at the same time,” one that is ‘too Latinx’ for white Americans and, at the same time, ‘too American’ for Latin Americans, and that can never completely fit into any of those worlds. Where did she find she could fit in, eventually? Among those other 16 million people in her situation. So, she decided to travel around the country and find them, the ‘eñye’ generation, to collect their shared experiences.
The irony of it all, and what puts Latinxs in this ‘not enough’ paradigm is that, while so many have been shamed for not speaking Spanish, their parents have been shamed for not speaking English. And, actually, that’s the reason these Latinxs don’t speak Spanish in the first place: “They were literally deprived of learning it oftentimes because their parents were trying to protect them from racism,” Soler Cox explains.
