Voluntary Simplicity Simple Living

"International Experts On Simple Living Explain How To Save Cash & Save The Planet By Stepping Out Of The Rat Race & Living Cheaply With Style..." Discover How To Live More With Less!   Dear friend, Consumer culture has failed to fulfill its promise of a better life and, what is even worse, it is destroying the planet as well. Why, then, do so many people spend their whole lives pursuing only money and fashionable consumer products? Is that really the way to live? Millions of people have begun discovering a new, simpler, more sustainable way to live. Are you too seeking an alternative to consumer culture? My new book, Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture, is an invitation to an alternative way of life. It explains why simple living is the most important idea on the planet and how everyone can benefit greatly from living the simple life. If you are dissatisfied with the unbalanced, materialistic lifestyle of consumer culture, then this book is for you. Discover a new way to live! Help create a new culture! Join the quiet revolution today! Imaginative individuals are needed. *NOT FOR PROFIT: All money raised from this publication is used to provide schools, communities, educational organizations, political departments, and universities, with free information on voluntary simplicity. Your support would be greatly appreciated. What is voluntary simplicity? (aka 'downshifting') Voluntary simplicity is a way of life that involves rejecting the dead end lifestyle of consumer culture and celebrating what is often just called the simple life, or downshifting. This way of life involves providing for material needs as simply and directly as possible, not wasting money and life on consumer products you don't need, and instead spending more time on things that truly inspire you and make you happy. This generally means learning to live with less money, in exchange for more time and freedom to pursue other life goals, such as social and community engagements, artistic or intellectual projects, time with family, more fulfilling employment, spiritual exploration, relaxation, pleasure seeking, love, and so on. Voluntary simplicity is based on the idea that all human beings including you are capable of living a more meaningful, freer, and happier life, while consuming no more than a fair share of nature. The message is that those who know they have enough are rich. According to this view, personal and social progress is measured not by owning bigger houses, faster cars, or finer clothing, etc., but by increases in the quality of daily living and the development of your unique potentials. As Duane Elgin has famously defined it, voluntary simplicity is a manner of living that is outwardly simple and inwardly rich,...a deliberate choice to live with less in the belief that more life will be returned to us in the process. More and more people are adopting this environmentally sustainable way of life because (1) consumer culture is causing irreversible damage to the environment; and (2) money, greed, and consumer goods are clearly not making people happy. Voluntary simplicity teaches us that very little is actually needed to be happy and to live well, making the rat race seem not so much sad as foolish. After all, true wealth is a state of mind, not a quantity of money or an accumulation of the newest consumer products. (When people lie on their deathbeds, nobody wishes they had nicer carpet or more expensive clothing. Better to learn this lesson now ) What voluntary simplicity is not... Voluntary simplicity does not, however, mean living in poverty, becoming a monk, or rejecting all the advantages of science and technology. It does not involve becoming a self righteous preacher, living in a cave, or denying yourself a happy life. And it is not some passing fad suitable only for saints or hippies. Rather, by reexamining our relationship with money, material possessions, the planet, ourselves and each other, the simple life of voluntary simplicity is about discovering the freedom and happiness that comes with knowing how much money and stuff is truly enough. And this might be a lesson that has something to say to everyone, especially those of us who are everyday exposed to thousands of corporate advertisements which insist that more is always better. Voluntary simplicity is an art of living that is aglow with the insight that just enough is plenty. Why adopt simple living? My book not only provides a comprehensive description of what voluntary simplicity means, but it also outlines exactly why we should adopt simple living and how it will benefit your life and the lives of others. The book offers four broad answers to the question of why we should adopt voluntary simplicity, which I summarize below. (1) Consumer culture distracts us from what is best in our lives so there are personal reasons for adopting voluntary simplicity. If we...

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