Quotes About Abundance

In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies.

what a community can become when its members understand and share their gifts.

We know that appreciation begets abundance.

For people, the pulse of abundance felt like a gift, a profusion of food to be simply picked up from the ground.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.

The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves. I hadn't realized that I had come to the lake and said feed me, but my empty heart was fed. I had a good mother. She gives what we need without being asked.

objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts.

all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.

Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all.

Let us pile up our thanks like a heap of flowers on a blanket. We will each take a corner and toss it high into the sky. And so our thanks should be as rich as the gifts of the world that shower down upon us

the Thanksgiving Address was spoken to greet the day: "Let us put our minds together as one and send greetings and thanks to our Mother Earth, who sustains our lives with her many gifts.

Had all the things in the market merely been a very low price, I probably would have scooped up as much as I could. But when everything became a gift, I felt self-restraint. I didn't want to take too much.

The market system artificially creates scarcity by blocking the flow between the source and the consumer.

Wealth meant having enough to give away, social status elevated by generosity.

If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.

It is our work, and our gratitude, that distills the sweetness

It seems hard to argue with gratitude for berries.

Hyde reminds us that in a gift economy, one's freely given gifts cannot be made into someone else's capital.

You can't listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea.

Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away. Hoarding the gift, we become constipated with wealth, bloated with possessions, too heavy to join the dance.

Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires.

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet. A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery - as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness

The end of starvation is quite delicious.