What Makes You Come Alive?

Although we can become immobilized with fear when we try and deal with this huge iceberg, when we look more closely we see that it really isn't so frightening up close. Each one of the "problems" can really be reduced to a mind-set of "more." We have been seduced by the illusion of progress to think that we need more money to buy more stuff that is made with more cheap oil and produces more people so we can eat more and more food that makes us fat and fight more wars with more high tech weapons and create more fearful ways we can die.

A client of mine who was dealing with multiple addictions said it well. "My drug of choice is more. I seem to want more of everything. Too much is never enough." We have become a culture addicted to more stuff we're extracting from the Earth and the Earth is telling us that "enough is enough." Trying to get more and more of a limited resource just keeps us on a path of addiction.

The way out is to find what makes you come alive. When you think deeply, what makes us come alive has little to do with acquiring more stuff. For me it involves things like walking in the woods, working in the garden, spending time with my children and grandchildren, writing about the beauty of the world we can create together once we stop our crazy addiction for more. What makes you come alive? What part of this wonderful world of the future would you like to help bring into being?

Jed Diamond, Ph.D.

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