The Lie of Scarcity

I don’t identify with the lie.

I am not the beliefs I was taught, I am not the mistakes that I’ve made, I am not the sum of my conditioning, I’m not even my trauma. I am however, the individual who can meet myself in each of these realities. I am the Being that is constantly learning and growing and evolving and healing.

Everything that I’ve learned about oppressive paradigms is as a result of participating in those paradigms. If you live on this Earth most likely you’re participating in these paradigms, too. Self-betrayal, projecting onto others and not seeing their humanity, perpetuating scarcity, internalized oppression, relating through violence and control; these are all survival strategies that I inherited. To pretend otherwise is to fail to see how interconnected we all are.

When we’re taught to identify with the lie - with a set of problematic and harmful beliefs and behaviors- then we’re likely to double down when those beliefs and behaviors are brought to our attention. *We* feel threatened, when in actuality the only thing being threatened is the lie. If I view myself as inseparable from what I have been taught to believe - then it’s going to be impossible to change my mind. Or if I do change my mind, I’m likely to be judgmental and harsh towards anybody who reminds me of how “wrong” I’ve been. Because to see them in their humanity, vulnerability, and imperfection — is to see and hold space for myself in my own humanity, vulnerability, and imperfection.

If I relate to the world from a place of shared humanity and the belief of our shared intrinsic worthiness? Well that would be really fucking destabilizing to the lie. So it’s not an accident that we’re taught to view growth as unreliable and threatening - doing so keeps us stuck in the same ways of relating.

It’s simple; if we don’t have the space to be the humans who inherited these wounds? Then we aren’t giving ourselves the space to be the humans who hold and heal from these wounds.

Love cost us nothing… but love.

The Lie is sure to give us all

A crystal clear instruction

That if we self correct and grow

We’ll meet our own destruction

Ain’t that something?

Love costs us nothing

But Love.