When is "Enough" enough?

Hi ania66, I personally don't ever want to stop receiving. In fact, I don't think we can stop receiving even if we wanted to. We can never get enough love, or air that we breathe. Something are imperative that we keep on receiving. For some reason, I don't think those things are what you are referring to. If we will ever get enough of tangible things in life? Such things as money, cars, clothes, houses,etc., I still say no, we will never get over the feel of bliss when we acquire some new, big, better item in our live. Acquiring better things in life is a blessing, in my opinion, if you have come by them honestly from hard work or services. We should not feel ashame for having more and will even get more. When we share what we have, blessing comes back twofold.

I couldn’t really understand what has rationale got to do with ‘wanting’… to want more and more is but an intrinsic part of human nature…it is something that keeps us moving against all odds, it’s a sort of inspiration. However, ‘giving’ or charity (if that is what you mean), is completely different. If you think that you give only so that you ‘receive’, it doesn’t really work out that way all the time. In many cases, you don’t receive anything in return or as per expectations and then that ‘giving’ becomes a burden…so whenever you ‘give’, do give without any expectations. BTW…I personally feel that rationale rather makes us understand our conditions better and make us ponder over the things we ‘want’…i.e., if we really want them, are these indispensable or are they mere frivolities and distractions.

I am never contented with what I have in life. In giving, there is no enough to me. I keep on giving what I could afford to people without any reasons at all. I just feel like giving food drink and stuff to my friends. In gadgets, some I couldn't afford yet, I wont use my bank account because its for future purposes. I'll never be satisfied with the things I have.

Hi ania66 I am now in my midlife that's why I don't want to stress myself too much. Although having a fourteen year daughter will do that. Anyway after all the things that have befallen our country I can say that I am much more lucky to have all the things I want in life...if not monetary but families, friends and good daughter. I just think that living your life to the fullest every minute is something to thank for. I also give and give without thinking of the consequence I guess that is me.

In this world with people full of dreams, I guess enough can never be possible for people who dreams a lot. People who aims a lot will never acknowledge the word enough. I guess I'm one of those. Aren't you?

i say enough is enough when i noticed that people are now taking advantage of me.. let's face it, some people are unscrupolous that they take advantage of the goodness extended to them.. i have nothing against giving if your real reason is simply to help, but don't you think saying "enough" is also a means of helping them?

Yes, I agree with you. When it's due to giving, to help others, there is no "Enough". We always should have "more" in giving and helping others.

Enough is enough for me would just be very simple, having enough money to pay my bills on time every time and maybe being able to take a nice vacation from work every few years. It would of course be nice to have some fabulous things but that really does not motivate me anymore. I would be satisfied now with having just enough.

I could never say when enough is enough. It's human nature I guess, we aren't contented of what we have despite the fact that everything that could make us happy is on our hands. According to Swami Sivananda, an Indian Ypga Master, "There is no end of craving.Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”

There is no enough for money and wealth but we only use enough when some one do not good to us.

Enough is a state of mind. When we mind set ourselves for a particular fact, issue or standard in a given aspect or situation of our lives that we tend to stop. We could correlate this with "satisfaction" and "perfection", in which there is no end unless we choose to stop. Thus, this is also an issue of "contentment" based on ones attitude in life. Sometimes, there are other factors that we need to consider aside from ourselves such as family, friends and other people around you. We consider them because we are bound by limitations in life. There are times when we wanted more but we need to stop, worse is we sacrifice ourselves for others because of certain reasons that are sometimes beyond our control....

With regards to giving/helping, for me "Enough" is enough when people tend to take advantage/abuse your generosity. While with regards to what you have in life, wanting/craving for something more/greater is expected. It can't be avoided as we want our lives to be better in every way. What we should know is our limitations and be contented to what and who we are for us to be happy. Cheers!