It’s Dudley’s eleventh birthday, and he’s counted the presents
waiting for him, discovering there are just a few less than his prior birthday.
Seeing her son about to have a full-on tantrum, Petunia Dursley promises to buy
him two more presents when they take him out to celebrate, which appeases him—for
the moment. What a contrast Dudley ’s behavior
is with Harry’s, when Harry receives his few presents at his first Christmas at
Hogwarts.
How much is enough? Dudley
never had enough. Harry didn’t concern himself overmuch about this; he did the
best he could with the what-is of his life and moments. The answer to how much
is enough is as individual as we are. And enough isn’t just about quantity, but
is also about quality. Dudley received all
manner of expensive gifts that he valued differently. Many were broken quite
soon after he received them then discarded in the extra bedroom that held so
much of his toys and so forth, having received over the years more than his own
bedroom could contain. He could have shared these with Harry, but he didn’t.
Harry, on the other hand, received gifts of true value and
appreciated them as such: simple gifts that declared friendship—the biggest
gift of all, as he’d never had friends before, much less people who were kind
to him in his life (once he went to live with the Dursleys, that is); the gift of
a knitted sweater with his initial on it, created specifically for him, one
that all the Weasley children received, thereby establishing his place in their
family and hearts; and a cloak of tremendous power that once was his father’s,
which connected him to his father, mother, and heritage in deeply meaningful
ways.
Status Quo Tick-Tock promotes rampant, mindless consumerism. It
promotes wastefulness and creation of waste. It promotes feeling less if you
aren’t able to purchase and consume as much as some. In the mindset of SQTT,
unless you participate in this way, you’re deemed not very worthy or valuable,
at least not to the SQTT system. To the Earth and The One Source and celestial
beings that assist you, when you practice conscious awareness about this,
you’re like the beautiful little flower growing near or within the junkyard or
trash heap, at the start, that is. Eventually, you find yourself growing and
flourishing in a beautiful field with other flowers, grasses, and trees.
We are not supposed to go without. Going without isn’t holy, not
in a Universe of Infinite Abundance. We are meant to have enough that supports
our having experiences we want or need, but from a deeper understanding of
usage, re-usage, and recycling of the energy involved in this. We practice this
well when we appreciate deeply everything that comes to us or ever did,
especially because we understand the mystery and magic of the “tangible” coming
to us from the field of the intangible—the field of Infinite Possibility we
come from and exist within, as soon as we shed any belief that says we don’t, or
that we’re limited. If everything in the Universe is yours to use, do you have
to have it where you live, cluttering the space and gathering dust?
If you find yourself succumbing to the SQTT malady of
self-importance, pause—maybe walk in nature, or watch birds from your window,
or get up close to a flower and really look at it with a soft mind and energy.
Do something that heals you of this malady and returns you to the humbleness of
belonging to something vast and magical that has no need for self-importance,
just significance.








