Simplicity
This via Deanne:
“Simplicity means a return to the posture of dependence. Like children we live in a spirit of trust. What we have we receive as a gift.” — Richrard J. Foster
Wanted: Your first gut reaction to the quote.
Wanted: Your reaction upon further contemplation.
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5 comments:
Bens,
I don't know the context of that quote. However, most people who follow the ideas of voluntary simplicity support independence rather than dependence; the idea that by cutting back, minimising one's possessions and activities to those one truly values; we can be (somewhat) independent of the mainstream, worldly and consumerist values of our society.
The dependence part bothers me.
I'll keep thinking about it but I think it's going to keep bothering me.
yes, i agree.
ok, i'll think about it and get back to you...
Fear - the complecating of things as we dwell on "what could happen." Simplicity - cutting back - simplifying - distilling our thoughts from the fearful what ifs to what is...
innocent until charged guilty instead of imagining the spiders behind each door.
First gut reaction: ACK!
Upon further contemplation: It seems that the more simply we live, the less dependent, in many ways, we should have to be. (I can grow my own carrots; I can't build a TiVo.) Children aren't always so very trusting. ("But WHY can't I have it? You NEVER let me have my way!!!) And while some of what we receive is a gift, some is a result of hard work, and much is a result of a combination of the two. It seems like a rather oversimplified statement to me!
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