📿 Perennial Meditations
This series delivers guided contemplations (via the Perennial Meditations YouTube channel) inspired by the writings of Stoics, Saints, and Sages. These short contemplations are intended to help you (and me) think deeply about what it means to live an intentional life.
How to Live a Simple Life
What do we really need in life?
It’s a perennial question. The nineteenth-century American essayist Henry David Thoreau is one of the many that have pondered it.
In his classic work Walden, Thoreau wrote,
Our lives are frittered away by detail. An honest man hardly needs to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases; he may add his ten toes and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
In this meditation (or guided contemplation), I invite you to reflect on the simple life. Specifically, the question – “What does it mean to live simply?” […]
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Thank you for listening; I hope you found something useful for daily life.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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