About Voluntary simplicity
Managers & Moderators
Description
this is a group for people who want to learn about or want to chose to live simply. we are making the conscious choice to live low on the cosumerism scale. we speak simply, we eat simply, we party simply, we travel simply. i was a part of the Chicago VS group that met monthly for fifteen years. it will be fun!
Recent Messages
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Voluntary simplicity
Slow Down
September 30, 2007
By Steve Metsch, Staff writer
It started in Italy, when Romans rose up in anger over plans to build a McDonald's, the first American fast-food restaurant in the Eterna...
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posted by RossCann
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Backing Away
I have a Partner joining my Life and need to Simplify my life by backing off my Web Commitments. I know my Priorities. Good Luck All! Art
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posted by ArthurCook
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In Defense of Desire
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There is more to desire than just suffering. There is a yearning in desire that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is s...
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posted by RossCann
Self awareness
The "Helper" Syndrome
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One of the themes of practice is the gradual movement from a self-centered life to a more life-centered one. But what about our efforts to become more life-centered...
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posted by RossCann
Meditation
Ancient Pali texts liken meditation to the process of taming a wild elephant. The procedure in those days
was to tie a newly captured animal to a post with a
good strong rope. When you do this, t...
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posted by RossCann
Healthcare
We can not reform healthcare until we reform US food production by Bob Cesca
If and when health care reform finally passes, we will
have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis.
The trea...
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posted by RossCann
Pessimism doesn't work
"Doom and Gloom" on the Left
by Randy Shaw
Beyond Chron - posted Oct. 27, 2009
San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily
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As reports emerge of the Senate's increasing support
for a publ...
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posted by RossCann
