Inconsumable

Transcript

The title of today’s talk is “inconsumable”.

Is that the right word? Oh, that’s the right word.

Today is the 27th of December 2021, in the year of our Lord. And to be honest with you, I don’t feel a 100 percent today. And I think like a lot of people have been feeling like this lately.

In the last few months of the last few years things seem to change a bit, there seems to be some strange energy in the air, and in this times more than ever.

I think it is important to get in touch with the deepest part of ourselves, no matter what ways we can, to what extent we can.

It’s worthwhile to look within, to take that time to aloud those settled feelings to arise. However deep we can find them, however deep we can dive in.

Sometimes in our capitalist cultures, in our consumerist cultures, we have this tendency, yes, to want to consume so many things, so many objects available to us. Many of them cheaper than ever and easily orderable, easy enough to get them delivered to our front door. Or to go out to some store and find those things fabricated, produced for us, for our enjoyment.

And we can be grateful for that.

We might fall into the habit if we let that gratitude slip, then we might think that it’s not just things that afford our consumption.

We might think that people too for our consumption, our friends, our lovers.

And when things get difficult, when they don’t serve us, we might quickly let them slide, when they no longer give us pleasure.

And in some cases we are right to do this, there is a certain, like, we shouldn’t be willing to self sacrifice, to put ourselves on the cross in order to please others. There is a balance.

There is also the question: how do we treat people? And, if we do treat others as things to be consumed what are we saying about ourselves?

If we say another is to be consumed then we are silently affirming that we ourselves are here to be consumed, that we exist for the pleasure of others.

What if there is a part of you that is not simply for pleasure?

Actually, something far beyond pleasure. Something that cannot be consumed, nor diminished, something valuable, something precious, something pure.

Yes, it is within you, when you take the time to notice. This inconsumable, it takes no effort, it takes no striving, no amount of people pleasing is necessary to find it, to aloud it, to arise within us. It’s always there.

You’re valuable, and your value doesn’t have any caveats, and doesn’t need to satisfy any person. It doesn’t even need to satisfy yourself. It cannot be diminished, it cannot be consumed, and is always within you, that inherent value.

You are valuable.