Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyThree: Your Purpose In Life Is To ‘Just Be’
Become less, so you can be more – Eckhart Tolle I am currently reading the book A New Earth By Eckhart Tolle (yes I am a bit late on the wagon), however even though the book has kept appearing and...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyFour: The Secret Of Happiness? Stop...
So what is the secret of happiness. It is not as elusive as many would make you believe – actually it really is very simple. The main principles of happiness have to do with practicing gratitude,...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentySix: Live With Mindfulness
When walking, walk. When eating, eat ~Zen proverb In the chaos and busyness of the modern world, there is great beauty that can be found in simply doing. We’re overwhelmed wildly by whatever emails,...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentySeven:Connecting With Divine...
You hear of many stories of people in their darkest hours having an ‘awakening’ ‘seeing the light’ ‘connecting to divine wisdom’ ‘finding god’ and so forth. Recovering drug and alcohol addicts, people...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyEight:Live With Sincerity And...
I have taken a short break from the simple living challenge, as I wasn’t quite clear on how to end it. I could have done some small articles on why you should take the car more, consume less and so...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyNine:Live With Gentleness & Serve...
As mentioned in my last post, I have decided to include Lao Tzu’s cardinal virtues in the 30 Simple Living Challenge. These 4 virtues are simple and illuminating; they seek to guide us in living a life...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Thirty: Make The Shift
So you have read the 29 other posts, maybe even felt a little motivated and inspired at times. Well today is the day you go from ‘wishing’ or ‘talking’ about becoming to actually ‘becoming’. Today you...
View ArticleA Guide To Minimalist Living
As most of you know, I have recently sold my trendy Sydney 3 bedroom-2 bathroom terrace house for a move to the country. A move that also happened to involve selling most of my possessions, so that I...
View ArticleSteep Your Soul With A Daily Tea Ritual
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life –...
View ArticleThe Art Of Living: How To Turn Daily Living Into An Act Of Grace
Modern day theory says that we should all strive to ‘become our purpose’. For many of us, this mainstream thinking then turns daily life into a constant act of ‘striving to become’, hours are wasted as...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner...
For a great read check out A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance [click here] written by Andy Couturier. There is a book that I am reading at the moment...
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