Today is a quote, not my own, but from Keri Wyatt Kent's book Breathe.
"...a key aspect of simplicity is living your values. If you say that you value people over stuff, if you say that you value helping the poor, if you say you want to spend time with your family but you don't arrange the details of your life to be able to do those things, you create an inner anxiety for yourself. Thoreau wrote, 'Your priorities are what you do.'"
and later-
"Much of the violence in our lives, and hence, the stress, comes from our effort to win and to control...Success and gentleness seem to be at odds. 'A successful life has become a violent enterprise,' writes Wayne Muller. 'We make war on our bodies, pushing them beyond their limits; war on our children, because we cannot find enough time to be with them when they are hurt and afraid, and need our company; war on our spirit, because we are too preoccupied to listen to the quiet voices that seek to nourish and refresh us..."
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wonder who gave you that awesome book? hope you glean as much encouragement from it as I did.
Thank you dear Aimee...I plan on lending it to my sister after I am done. It's taking me a while to read it, but it's worth the time taken!!
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