Closet-Cleaning Benefits

Cramming life with possessions, pleasures, pride, and activities when we’ve obviously reached a point where more is less indicates being in harmony with ego, not the Tao! ~ Dyer, Wayne (2007-07-31). Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Enough is enough.
Forty-plus-year-old clothes
pulled out so they can fine homes
where they’re worn rather than stored.
But wait. That one’s too good
to give away, for a donation.
Don’t we know anyone who needs it?
We can’t give that away.
But that one, it’s an ugly shirt,
put it in the pile.
We probably have close to 50 pieces
in the car trunk ready to give away…
and 200 plus we couldn’t part with,
didn’t need but needed to keep.

Enough is enough.
Stop eating when you’re full.
You don’t need the extra, will not starve,
can eat again tomorrow.
Eat. But stop eating when satiated.
Don’t fall into the trap of believing
you must have more, in believing
that more will bring you happiness.
Enough is enough.

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