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

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Whistle while you work

Drawing by Ron Leishman When last did you whistle while working? When last did you hear someone else whistle while working? Somehow it bothers me that whistling has become an almost absent element in our work. The sound of a person whistling a tune while busy somewhere in the house or out in the workshop conveys something of an underlying happiness, satisfaction and contentment. An enjoyment of the work itself. The tune need not be flawless. Applying more air than sound won’t lead to disqualification, as long as the intention is there. Whistling can even be replaced by singing in all that I’ve said up to now. The same principles apply. The absence of any of these two activities bothers me because it says something about us doing the work and the type of work that we do. Can it be that our type of labour in this 21 st century is not conducive to either whistling or singing? What type of work is that then – draining, stressful, pressured? Or are our conclusions ...

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