The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

Tracy discovered she had a talent for interviewing and writing, and she began a freelance writing business chronicling the life stories of elderly people for their families.

the “social profit” sector,

also invite you to live a larger life—to see that when we really look at what we’ve got and let go of trying to accumulate more, we have the capacity for much greater lives than just “getting” and “having.” Everyone wants more than the good life for just themselves. They want the good life for all, and when you realize there is enough, you get in t

They lived (and still do) in the experience and expression of enough, or what I call sufficiency. Instead of seeking more, they treasure and steward thoughtfully what is already there. In fact, their efforts today are devoted to protecting what is there—the rain forest—as a resource for all of us. For the Achuar, wealth means being present to the f

They are built into the money system in which we swim, and we’ve been swimming in it so long that these shadows have become almost completely transparent to us. We have learned to consider them normal and legitimate behavior.

There is little that we accept so completely as the power and authority of money, and assumptions about how we should feel about it.

I suggest that sufficiency is precise. Enough is a place you can arrive at and dwell in. So often we think of “abundance” as the point at which we’ll know we’ve really arrived, but abundance continues to be elusive if we think we’ll find it in some excessive amount of something. True abundance does exist; it flows from sufficiency, in

When we listen, speak, and respond from the context of sufficiency, we access a new freedom and power in our relationship with money and life.

Sufficiency is a context we bring forth from within that reminds us that if we look around us and within ourselves, we will find what we need. There is always enough.