Be Not Content
Much spiritual advice centers around acceptance. Welcome what shows up. Be satisfied with what we have.
Seems like sound advice, right? Which makes this line from A Course in Miracles all the more surprising.
Be not content with littleness. But be sure you understand what littleness is, and why you could never be content with it.
Littleness isn't a small apartment or a modest paycheck. It's the me. A self the size of a body, with a name, a history, and an endlessly long list of things it needs before it can feel okay.
We were never meant to settle for that. Not because we deserve more, but because we are more.