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Plain living and high thinking make for contentment. Keeping your mind on the plane of ideas will give you more happiness than if you dwell on externals.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. —LAO-TZU
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
— Bonnie Friedman
This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
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the best things in life are not things. They are experiences. What we truly treasure springs from experiences.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Many of the best and most spiritually nourishing things in life are all too often rendered invisible by the tyrannies of time, money and force of habit.