Simple living lifestyle


	Simple living lifestyle

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6-17-2009 4:00 AM

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theres a lot to be said for simplicity

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa9aa98b-320d-46ac-b00a-39e5cb9e1573/0B24435C-CAEF-4E10-8C85-C69F494ADA54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_living&oldid=296630045" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_living&oldid=296630045" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_living&oldid=296630045"><H1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><SPAN><SPAN>Simple living</SPAN><SPAN> <A href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living" title="Read 2 reviews" slt=""><IMG width="13" height="13" border="0" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chrome://stumbleupon/content/skin/smallstumble.png" /> <IMG width="10" height="10" border="0" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chrome://stumbleupon/content/skin/star.png" /><IMG width="10" height="10" border="0" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chrome://stumbleupon/content/skin/star.png" /> <IMG width="13" height="13" border="0" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chrome://stumbleupon/content/skin/smallbubble2.png" /></A><SPAN> · </SPAN><A href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/culture/ethnicity/" title="See related pages" slt="">Culture/Ethnicity</A></SPAN></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_living&oldid=296630045"><P><B>Simple living</B> (<B>voluntary simplicity</B>) is a <A title="Lifestyle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle">lifestyle</A> characterized by minimizing the "more is better" pursuit of <A title="Wealth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth">wealth</A> and <A title="Consumerism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism">consumption</A>. Adherents may choose simple living for a variety of personal reasons, such as <A title="Spirituality" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality">spirituality</A>, <A title="Health" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health">health</A>, increase in '<A title="Quality time" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_time">quality time</A>' for <A title="Family" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family">family</A> and <A title="Friends" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends">friends</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Stress (medicine)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(medicine)">stress</A> reduction, personal taste or <A title="Frugality" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugality">frugality</A>. <A title="E. F. Schumacher" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher">E. F. Schumacher</A> put it best by saying, "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_living&oldid=296630045"><P>Others cite socio-political goals aligned with the <A title="Anti-consumerism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism">anti-consumerist</A> movement, including <A class="mw-redirect" title="Conservation ethic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_ethic">conservation</A>, <A title="Social justice" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice">social justice</A> and <A title="Sustainable development" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development">sustainable development</A>. According to <A title="Duane Elgin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Elgin">Duane Elgin</A>, "we can describe voluntary simplicity as a manner of living that is outwardly more simple and inwardly more rich, a way of being in which our most authentic and alive self is brought into direct and conscious contact with living."<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A href="#cite_note-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0B24435C-CAEF-4E10-8C85-C69F494ADA54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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