Monday, December 29, 2025
We’re always speaking imprecisely, more or less. The phrase “more or less” means that language falls short of absolutism. Call that wiggle room or room for interpretation or a “wait-and-see” attitude. The present moment always seems to afford us something more or less. But never stoppage in the absolute sense.
No matter how close you get, there’s always room, more or less. Try downsizing. What that means is that more and less are synonyms. Roomy. I don’t believe the world is linear, but roomy and paradoxical, like paradise. More and less circle back. That’s why Psalm 23 says, “I lack nothing.” Another way to understand this is “I lack nothing, more and/or less; with and/or without.”
When more and less become synonymous and have the same parent, what’s the issue? There’s no end to a circle. What once appeared as less returns to more. Every story has two sides. So, when you see less you imply more.
Are you wealthy? More or less. Are you healthy? More or less. Are you whole? Hold the phone.
How can you be more or less whole? Even if your body is so-called broken, are you partial? Are you less if you lose a limb, a dollar, a job, or a friend? I’m immune to partiality, that’s why I lack nothing. If I am always whole, where does lack come from? It comes from what merely appears empty, like a tomb. I don’t have full insight into the spectrum of the field of potential! But, it’s always in me because I am whole.
I’m OK with more and/or less. That story comes from me. The circle principle of wholeness, which is who I am, is even in death. There is no incomplete wholeness! That’s what lack is – “incomplete wholeness,” a one-sided story.
So, do you lack? Only if you believe in one-sided stories.