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Showing posts with label Doing Without. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doing Without. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2016

Reading ~







Too heartbreaking to read—that final chapter. I keep putting it off.

Monday, April 12, 2010

At Table ~

Why did they teach us to take the piece that is nearest us when the food went around at table?

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

On the Autobahn ~

It is through longing, lacking, and pain that everything opens to us, I thought, as I sat in the back seat looking at the posh cars laden with vacation equipment passing us on the autobahn.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Self Restraint ~

The wise old monk's perspective said: It's not just a matter of giving something up, i.e. television. It doesn't end with making a sacrifice. We make the sacrifice for some other reason. Namely, to find ourselves. To have the quiet and rest to begin to comprehend who we are and what is going on inside ourselves.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Christmas Tree ~

Bought a Christmas tree today. All the while thinking about living simply in a society that has everything. Almost any object that one can imagine is available and can be had. Living in such a society poses its own problems: the desire to have is one, dissatisfaction not to have is another. To be satisfied with owning little is an ideal to keep striving for because it frees me from so many things that clutter up my life.