Not abundance as a bank balance or profit, but abundance as life working the way it\u2019s meant to.<\/p>\n
The First Lesson Is Small
\nTake a single seed.<\/p>\n
Hold it in your hand. It\u2019s unremarkable. Easy to overlook, lose or discard.
\nBut, place it in the ground, give it water and care, and something extraordinary happens.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t just become one thing - it's not a one-for-one relationship.<\/p>\n
It becomes food <\/strong>for the body. The Earth doesn\u2019t count carefully and say, \u201cThat\u2019s enough.\u201d Scarcity is not what happens naturally. Rain doesn\u2019t fall with instructions attached.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t ask who deserves it. It falls, soaks in, fills creeks, feeds roots, cools the air, brings hope and travels on.<\/p>\n One rainfall becomes many things, in many places, for many lives.<\/p>\n Abundance flows. Healthy soil isn\u2019t exhausted by use. When leaves return to the earth, when crops are rotated, when land is allowed to rest, the soil grows richer. More alive. More generous.<\/p>\n The land responds to respect.<\/p>\n When we treat Earth as something to strip and pollute, it withers. A forest is not chaotic. Trees grow tall, not to dominate, but to make space below. From this cooperation comes timber \u2014 strong, warm, enduring. For most of history, people built with what the land around them freely offered: timber, clay, stone, fibre, earth.<\/p>\n Natural building materials are not rare. Bees don\u2019t rush. They simply do what they were designed to do \u2014 and in doing so, they feed entire ecosystems.<\/p>\n Abundance emerges when each part plays its role without fear.<\/p>\n We are no different.<\/p>\n When knowledge is shared, it multiplies. A shared meal feeds more than bodies. We are wired for abundance.<\/strong><\/p>\n So why does it feel so distant?<\/p>\n Love is not a scarce resource.<\/p>\n It does not run out when shared. Love multiplies in the same way seeds do \u2014 quietly, naturally, and often unseen at first.<\/p>\n A mother\u2019s patience. These are not small things. They are the quiet foundations of a healthy Earth.<\/p>\n When communities are organised around fear, compliance, and pressure, love is treated as fragile or na\u00efve. But when people gather freely, love returns to its natural place \u2014 practical, grounding, and strong.<\/p>\n Local Assemblies are not built on ideology. They are built on relationships. On the simple act of people caring enough about one another to sit in the same room and talk.<\/p>\n Love is abundant when harm is removed. The Earth already knows this. Smiles cost nothing.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t require resources, approval, or training. A smile at a market stall. Smiles are one of the first signs of abundance returning.<\/p>\n When systems are heavy, rushed, or punitive, smiles disappear. Faces tighten. Eyes look away. But when pressure lifts, something remarkable happens: people soften.<\/p>\n They laugh again. Local Assemblies create space for this in ways that policies never could. Not through force or performance, but through familiarity \u2014 seeing the same faces, hearing the same voices, and slowly building trust.<\/p>\n Smiles remind us that we are not enemies. An abundant Earth is not only measured in harvests and homes. If you see more smiles in your community, abundance is already taking root.<\/p>\n Over time, something changed.<\/p>\n Systems grew that no longer served life, but controlled it. Government and the other privately owned corporations didn\u2019t just create scarcity \u2014 it enforced it.<\/p>\n Not because the Earth ran out, but because barriers were placed between people and what they share:<\/p>\n The harm we experience today is not natural. This is where the Assemblies come in.<\/p>\n Not as a grand revolution but an evolution<\/strong>. As a simple act of removal.<\/p>\n Assemblies don\u2019t manufacture abundance. We go from \u201cI\u2019m just one man\u201d or one woman, to us \u2013 united by the vision of a better, abundant Earth.<\/p>\n Assemblies bring decisions back to the places where people can see, feel, and care about the outcomes. When we end the harm, abundance doesn\u2019t need to be forced.<\/p>\n Abundance returns. Naturally.<\/strong> A Gentle Question The Assemblies are simply a place where that knowing is put back into practice.<\/p>\n Quietly. An abundant Earth is not something we must invent \u2014 it is already there, we simply need to remember. It shows itself when food grows freely, when homes are built from the gifts of the land, when love flows without condition, and when smiles return to faces that have been tight for too long. It appears wherever people gather voluntarily to listen, and care for one another. Local Assemblies are simply a place where this remembering becomes practical \u2014 where neighbours meet to put an end to harm, to steward what they share, and resolve what matters close to home. When we assemble, we quietly build a future we can be proud to bequeath to our offspring. Abundance will reveal itself in the same way a seed multiples, when people choose to come together in good faith.<\/p>\n Most of us have felt it at some point, even if we didn\u2019t have words for it. Maybe it was standing in a garden, watching something grow where yesterday there was bare soil. Maybe it was sharing a meal that somehow tasted better because it was shared. 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\nIt becomes pleasure <\/strong>for the mind.
\nIt produces many more seeds for next season, and the season after that.<\/p>\n
\nThe Earth is all about addition<\/strong>\u00a0and multiplication<\/strong>. That's abundance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nScarcity happens when growth is blocked - the way government does, by division<\/strong> and subtraction<\/strong>.<\/p>\nWatch What Water Does<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nIt doesn\u2019t demand payment before it moves.<\/p>\n
\nIt doesn\u2019t sit still.<\/p>\nNotice the Ground Beneath Your Feet<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nIt improves when it\u2019s cared for.<\/p>\n
\nWhen we treat it as something to tend, to nurture, it gives back \u2014 quietly, reliably.<\/p>\nLook to the Forest<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nIt\u2019s cooperative.<\/p>\n
\nRoots intertwine.
\nFungi carry messages and nutrients underground.<\/p>\n
\nMaterial for shelter, for tools, for homes.<\/p>\n
\nThey become rare only when access is restricted.<\/p>\nEven the Smallest Creatures Know This<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nThey don\u2019t argue over ownership.<\/p>\nAnd Then There\u2019s Us<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nWhen skills are passed on, communities become capable.
\nWhen time and attention are given freely, problems soften.<\/p>\n
\nA shared effort lightens the load.
\nA shared responsibility creates belonging.<\/p>\nLove Is Abundant<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nIt does not need permission.
\nIt does not require agreement.<\/p>\n
\nA father\u2019s steady presence.
\nA neighbour who checks in.
\nA stranger who listens without fixing.<\/p>\n
\nLove is abundant when people are no longer forced to act against their conscience.
\nLove is abundant when we remember we belong to each other.<\/p>\n
\nWe are simply remembering.<\/p>\nSmiles Are Contagious<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nThey appear naturally when people feel safe.<\/p>\n
\nA smile across a meeting table.
\nA smile that says, I see you \u2014 without words.<\/p>\n
\nThey make eye contact.
\nThey remember joy.<\/p>\n
\nThat life is not meant to be endured.
\nThat cooperation feels better than compliance.<\/p>\n
\nIt is visible in relaxed shoulders, open faces, and shared laughter.<\/p>\nWhen Something Interferes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nAccess became permission.
\nCare became compliance.
\nStewardship became extraction.<\/p>\n\n
\nIt is structural.<\/p>\nRemoving the Blockage<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nNot as another system to obey, but a way to work together to overcome obstacles.
\nAssemblies are the only way, and the proper way, to direct the corporations in what they can, and cannot do.<\/p>\n\n
\nThey make room for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThey allow land, water, timber, skills, responsibility and so much more, to be stewarded locally, together.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s how life is when allowed to just be.<\/p>\n
\nIf abundance makes sense \u2014
\nif this reads more like remembering than learning \u2014
\nperhaps that\u2019s because you already know it.<\/p>\n
\nLocally.
\nTogether.<\/p>\n![\"screenshot](\"https:\/\/terraaustralisstatesassembly.net\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-from-2025-12-24-15-38-10.png\")
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