From The Restory - Conversations On The Journey (27)

Simple Living: Books And Sources

The Conversation

Elements From The Conversation

Books:

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad,

and if I repent of any thing it is very likely to be my good behavior.”

“We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet, how much is not done by us!”

"Simplify, simplify!"

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,

so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell

"I pray you....

your play needs no excuse.

Never excuse."

William Shakespeare

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"A rat race can only be won by rats."

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"Make it your goal to live a quiet life,

minding your own business

and working with your hands,"

1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NLT)

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"How many people have you seen who are more alive at the end of the work day than they were at the beginning? Do we come home from our ‘making a living’ activity with more life? … Where’s all the life we supposedly made at work? For many of us, isn't the truth of it closer to "making a dying"? Aren't we killing ourselves - our health, our relationships, our sense of joy and wonder - for our jobs? We are sacrificing our lives for money – but it’s happening so slowly that we barely notice.”

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Not For Sale

That was the surprise.

not the news,

not what was said,

or wasn't said,

but the discovery,

the bitter discovery,

that what I had given,

was not for sale.

My heart feels stolen,

my soul feels robbed,

they say, "We were take,

unknowingly,

without a say,

no voice in the matter."

My soul asks, "Why?

why did you do this?

didn't you hear me,

crying out, no?"

My heart cries out,

"Of course you knew,

or should have known,

there was nothing left,

nothing left to give."

It was a gift,

not a sale,

and now I know,

the last to know.

So, I take my heart,

I take my soul,

come home now,

"I can hear you."

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"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

Gandhi

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Websites & Blogs

Simple Living Toolkit

Smallish Blog

No Sidebar

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Music

Love. As simple as that.

George & Matilda

Vanuit Die Restory - Gesprekke Tussen Reisgenote (110)

Die Week Na 'n Dood Sebastien op sy gelukkigste - by water, besig om vis te vang Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Sebastien het altyd gesê, "I like old music.' Hy het. Billy Joel se Piano Man was vir baie lank die ringtone op sy foon. Dat ons só gelukkig kan wees, dankie Sebas. George & Matilda

Vanuit Die Restory / From The Restory (135)

Onlangse Oorsig / Recent Summary Foto's Van Onlangse Gebeure / Pictures Of Recent Events 'n Huis opgeknap en geverf met 'n nuwe badkamer, die koms van lente en reën, retreats, die CMR se breimarathon, aanbied en afsluiting van die Verfrissingskursus in geestelike begeleiding, bywoon van ons kleindogter Ariana se gradeplegtigheid ("Nee Oupa, dis 'n gradige plegtigheid!") voordat sy volgende jaar grootskool toe gaan. A house renovated and painted with a new bathroom, the arrival of spring and rain, retreats, the CMR's knitting marathon, presenting and finishing the Refresher course in spiritual guidance, attending our granddaughter Ariana's graduation before she goes to big school next year. Klank / Sound Die klank van sagte reën na die storm is op baie vlakke nou gepas. The sound of gentle rain after the storm is now appropriate on many levels. Met ons liefde, soos altyd. With our love, as always. George & Matilda

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Skuld as Motivering Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek ~ ❖ ~ "I am convinced that guilt and shame are never from God. They are merely the defenses of the False Self as it is shocked at its own poverty — the defenses of a little man who wants to be a big man. God leads by compassion toward the soul, never by condemnation. If God would relate to us by severity and punitiveness, God would only be giving us permission to do the same (which is tragically, due to our mistaken images of God, exactly what has happened!)." Richard Rohr ~ ❖ ~ "It is about as hard to absolve yourself of your own guilt as it is to sit in your own lap. Wrongdoing sparks guilt sparks wrongdoing ad nauseam, and we all try to disguise the grim process from both ourselves and everybody else. In order to break the circuit we need friends before whom we can put aside the disguise, trusting that when they see us for what we fully are, they won't run away screaming with, if nothing wors

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