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A Philosophy of Simple Living By Jérôme Brillaud

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A Philosophy of Simple Living By Jérôme BrillaudA Philosophy of Simple Living By Jérôme Brillaud. # A Philosophy of Simple Living By Jérôme Brillaud. Today, simple living is a rallying cry for anti-consumerists, environmentalists and anyone concerned with humanity’s effect on the planet. **A Philosophy of Simple Living** charts the ideas, motivations, and practices of simplicity from antiquity to the present day. Written in elegant, spare prose, this book will inspire all who wish to simplify their lives and convince many that a good life is a simple life. ‘This fascinating and well-written book by Jérôme Brillaud does not evangelise about simple living or tell readers how to think or live. ‘Thoughtful and beautifully written, A Philosophy of Simple Living is a rich portrait gallery of fellow humans — from Diogenes and Trappist monks to Prince Charles and advocates of Buen Vivir — attuned to the quiet activity of hearing the murmur of life.

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Simple living - Wikipedia

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Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle. Common practices of simple living include reducing the number of possessions

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Defining the Simple Life - resilience

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Since the colonial era, advocates of simple living have been professing a way of life at odds with an American environment full of bountiful resources, entrepreneurial opportunities, and increasingly powerful institutions that combine to exalt the glories of self-indulgence and war against contentment. Puritan and Quaker settlers who arrived in America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brought with them a delicately balanced social ethic stressing hard work, self-control, plain living, civic virtue, and spiritual devotion. For people living in a press of anxieties, straining desperately, often miserably after more money, more things, and more status, only to wonder in troubled moments how to get off such a treadmill, the rich tradition of simplicity still offers an enticing path to a better life. the secret of my youth [at age seventy-four] is the simple life – simple food, sound sleep, the open air, daily work, kind thoughts, love of nature, and joy and contentment in the world in which I live.

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