...poet William Wordsworth complained over two hundred years ago. "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." Today many women would agree with him. We're chronically exhausted from the "getting"-- the amount of energy spent earning a living and juggling the demands of home and career. And the reality of the recession means we're paying now for the "spending" of yesterday.
But despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world.
"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur....
--an excerpt from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
It's amazing how the world never really experiences anything new -- it just keep turning. Wordsworth wrote 200+ years ago, Sarah wrote the above in 1995 and here we are again, experiencing many of the same things. The big question is, is it again? Or is it still?
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