A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity

Simplicity isn’t so much a life with few things and commitments in it, as a life with the right, necessary things, attuned to our flourishing. Our lives will feel – and be – simpler when we’ve probed our minds to yield up their most secret and precious insight: the knowledge of what we truly want.

it is made to seem impertinent and unprofitable to demand an explanation as to why we might want to own or read or pursue or do certain things.

the question of purpose

be attentive to the real, but less obvious, factors that define our true situation.

the emphasis would also be on retiring – as early as possible – from a host of supposedly necessary demands that, on closer inspection, are entirely unsuited to who and what we are.

‘Retirement’ is the word we should learn to use to explain quitting a host of activities otherwise deemed crucial without forfeiting our claim to be classed as honourable and dignified.

feat: it momentarily anaesthetizes all those who hear it into forgetting society’s founding pressures and most ingrained competitive values. It renders deeply desirable states of inaction that could otherwise appear simply contemptible or downright lazy.

‘retirement’.

Receptivity, appreciation and gratitude