How do you know how much is enough?

Question

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Have a great day!

Answer 1

What one must do to achieve satisfaction depends on the individual's personality and some people do know whenever they have done enough but continue to push themselves despite it.    

Answer 2

When u reach a point when u look ahead and see emptiness. You've achieved everything. Its contentment. Its inexplicable. You know it when u get to it.

Answer 3

when I am enough -

I find psychological craving for 'more' comes when I am not enough to myself.

The mantra /positive affirmation:-

"I am enough

I have enough

I do enough"  

helps me to sort out what is psychological from actual.

Answer 4

Logically, "enough" is when no more is necessary.

But it would depend upon what you were discussing.

One doesn't actually need some things, so none is actually necessary, and there enough is none. (Do you NEED ice-cream for example?)

Answer 5

It is enough when further advancement and actions have no benefit in any aspect. Enough can also be when an individual is pleased with the current progress and state and will accept enough as it is without striving for "highest", but just "enough" to reach the purpose. Therefore, enough is subjective and only answerable to the individual.  

Answer 6

At the moment when I start wondering if it's too much.

Answer 7

When you feel content, or when you have no choice but to accept how much you have and feel content despite, or not .

Answer 8

if one was brought up to believe too much was 'enough', 'too much' would start to be realised at the point where it becomes fatal.

Answer 9

It's in between too much and not enough.

Answer 10

I don't.

Answer 11

when you feel content and satisfied.

Answer 12

I think if it is already satisfy your need/s.

Answer 13

This is amazing to see as how soap bubbles are formed and how a water droplets when in free suspension form spherical shapes. The same is true for all cosmic objects, as all planets, their moons, and stars form into spheres to traverse through the uniformity of gravitational flux. The universe that appears to be full of randomness, chaotic regions and void is not such a desolate place after all, as planet will form like this anywhere, start will ignite similarly, and if right conditions of temperature and pressure are provided then water will behave in similar manner anywhere in the universe. There we know is nature at work in the universe, the knowledge that gives us the clearest of all clues as how on earth or anywhere else, for if life has some extra terrestrial origins, life came to be amidst all that we see is accidental and haphazardly in place.

The mind for whatever its true nature might be after all is house within the physical reality of the same universal existence. The same laws of formation, growth and decay apply to the mind as they apply to the things of general nature. This might be the greatest riddle in the mind as how human beings come to be in a certain particular way; why human nature has its resources thereby it can deviate from the course of rigidity general nature, this however this is not a matter of question that the mind is based upon the basic principles of nature like all other things. The mind might not be as simplistic as a drop of what, it however has clearest tendencies to seek fulfilment within its being. It seeks completion in its search for knowledge, through possession of things, through its beliefs, and even in its cautions and fears its seeks the sufficiency of its containment.

If we imagine the mind like the spread of light round the flame of candle than we see that the light of the sphere reach all directions simultaneously and equally intensely. We realise that if an object is placed in the way of the light a shadow is cast that become all to visible in its projection, and if there is nothing around to reflect the light the void become all too obvious. The presence of the candle is the not realised merely by the lightening of the flame but by the fact that that there are things within the sphere of its reach, the things then are the things that the candle illuminates, and by the way of its illumination I can say that come to possess, for the sake of its being to be visible.

The mind by the reasons of its very being knows when something is missing, or when something is extra in the way of its being. We come into being mot naturally they way planet, starts and droplets are formed, but we become aware of things in our life, and through them of ourselves, the way a candle does. The mind we is familiar with its being at any level of self-awareness would know when it is enough, or when it is not. I might not know what I need but if I really, as most natural, need something then the first things I would know is what I need to find. A child for instance is never taught as how to suckle but he finds the source of his food by the very dictates of his nature. And then he knows when to stop, how not to overfeed, or worry about the next time he would be hungry.  This is not human nature by nature in general that instruct us through the most primal and fundamental matters of our being, it ceases to do so, even when a need is fulfilled, the nature stays awake.

The most interesting in this matter however is our need to know, as how for instance we would know when we have known enough, but the fact is we never know. As perhaps the only time we realise that we have known enough is when our hunger for knowledge stands us at yet another avenue of knowledge, when our search takes us to the venture of some new form of knowing, when we see another door opening, only then we know that we have known enough. If we had know one day that we have had enough of all knowledge, that we need not knowing a thing more than either we would have become God or we would die. Then this is where it becomes all too obvious that what purpose our faithful beliefs serve in our life. As when we learn to have faith we learn to withdraw from the endless searches of an ever hungry mind, from its pursuits of knowing all things, we instead seek to fulfil the life that we already have come to be, what we might already have within the containments of our being.

We know how much of anything is enough when we reach a state in the mind that is all too commonly called a state of contentment, when we see that all in the mind is in harmony, and balance, that our life is complete in a special way, in a way it feel right and comfortable. We know when something is not worth the effort or pain, when we could do without something most easily. This natural and internal reason that has its roots in our instinctive nature is not for us to investigate as much as it is to be realised.

Answer 14

"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough"



Lao Tzu

Answer 15

You just know. Gut instinct.

Answer 16

enough for you or for others?

Answer 17

I think it starts when I get a feeling I am wasting my time. Then my attention knows it needs to be somewhere more important. Then I keep going back & it is a waste of time. It is time to let go. I then just let it go & stay out for awhile to see if it comes back to me....I have done this with my spiritual center & I would stop learning things for a while only to end up coming back to it even stronger. Not all things are just ended completely. But if it is a situation that has to be stopped completely I get a strong feeling about it. Sometimes even anger which I believe is a message that says "what do you need to change?". Other times something is enough when I am so stressed out. I have done this with let things happen with money & when I am stressed about it & need to quit spending or making more I can feel it by being overwhelmed. So I just take that sign & start going in another direction.

Answer 18

Usually when I've reached the point of too much.

Answer 19

When I don't wish for more....