I really love this clip. Speaks to the rat race so many of us live in...trying to make enough money to buy ipods, laptops, cars, clothing, jewelry and all sorts of other things that we don't necessarily need and that don't truly make us happy. The irony is that the toll it takes on us is probably damaging to our well being, both physically and emotionally.

I found this and clipped it too, soory, did not realise you clipped it!

please don't be sorry - that doesn't bother me at all.

I am far from a crazed consumerist but I must admit, I do love my laptop, the internet & my camera.

When I first moved here the place was much smaller than it currently is and in most ways I liked those things. The internet gave space for my imagination to inspire me on.

Sometimes the downside of living in smaller places is that the deeper inner sources of nourishment can get squished. Though the upside is that nature is that much closer to escape into which is where the camera becomes my companion.

"The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least" - (author unknown)"

(A quote from one of Wilhelm's clips that I thought quite profound)

"The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least" - (author unknown)"

AGREED

All true. Something to live by rather than chat about. Deeply unpatriotic, I would think, and a worse threat to the ideology and economic system of the United States than Communism. It suggests, God defend us, that human beings have higher goals than a sick cycle of production and consumption.

Last year my family traveled to Peru, and were able to do a 1-night homestay with a farming family in the Andes. It was a great experience; and what struck me most about this family was how little they had -- almost no "possessions", just essentials for cooking and farming -- but how healthy and essentially happy they seemed.

I realize a 1-night stay is hardly an in-depth study; but it made an impression on my whole family.

multum in parvo: Much in little. ..as said by,David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

This is what the rich want to instill in the poor, so they can reduce competition. IMO at least.