Episode 21: Attachments from Scarcity

Attachments from Scarcity (previously recorded July 5th in front of virtual audience) It is so easy to allow people and circumstances to take up a tremendous amount of mental and emotional space. These people and circumstances can cloud our view of our present moments and our view of our path. They become inordinate attachments, take such a priority in our space that everything else is pushed out. Why does this happen? When we experience a sense of scarcity, desperation, fear, and disbelief, we connect ourselves to that which we believe will be the solution for this feeling. We create attachments during moments of scarcity. Yet when we are living abundantly from our true selves, we can see clearly and are able to discern what place they have in our lives. When we let go of our need to substitute false attachments for our real soul’s connections, we move from grasping in scarcity to sitting and seeing in abundance. “Only when we are able to “let go” of everything within us, all desire to see, to know, to taste and to experience the presence of God, do we truly become able to experience that presence with the overwhelming conviction and reality that revolutionize our entire inner life.” Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (Image Books: 1996, ©1969), 67.