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"A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay 'The Joy of Quiet,' The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why would a man who seems able to go everywhere and do anything--like the international heartthrob and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Leonard Cohen--choose to spend years sitting still and going nowhere? What can Nowhere...
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In an effort to declutter-- and pare down on her expensive shopping habit-- Carver too a new approach: she vowed to survive on just 33 items from her closet for 3 months. Here she guides readers through their closets item-by-item, sifting through all the emotional baggage to locate the items that actually look and feel like you. By releasing ourselves from the cyclical nature of consumerism, we can see a clear path to make other changes that reach...
45) The plain reader
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Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Overscheduled. Sound familiar? Today's velocity of life can consume and control us . . . until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. That's where the danger lies: When we spend our lives doing things that keep us busy but don't really matter, we sacrifice the things that do.
What if your life could be different? What if you could be certain you were living the life God called you to live—and building...
What if your life could be different? What if you could be certain you were living the life God called you to live—and building...
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"In this book a noted physiologist and neuroscientist introduces the concept of simplexity, the set of solutions living organisms find that enable them to deal with information and situations, while taking into account past experiences and anticipating future ones. Such solutions are new ways of addressing problems so that actions may be taken more quickly, more elegantly, and more efficiently. In a sense, the history of living organisms may be summed...
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Descubre la verdadera libertad y felicidad que viene de comprar menos y compartir más. En 2013, las amigas Liesl Clark y Rebecca Rockefeller se dieron cuenta de la cantidad de residuos que había en sus playas locales -- desde plumas y popotes hasta juguetes y cepillos de dientes -- y decidieron hacer algo al respecto. Así nació el proyecto Buy Nothing. Lo que comenzó como un grupo experimental e hiperlocal de vecinos que compartían y juntaban...
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Disturbed by her family's comfortableness with American excess, Hatmaker writes with humor and depth about their unique social and spiritual decision to reduce material possessions and distractions in order to connect with God. Over seven months, she identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence.
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At age 30, Joshua and Ryan left their six-figure corporate jobs at age 30 to pursue more meaningful lives. 'Minimalism : essential essays' highlights essays from the first nine months of their journey into minimalism. 'Minimalism : essential essays' is an edited collection of 29 of The Minimalists' favorite essays about living a more meaningful life with less stuff. This collection also contains a special forward by Joshua and Ryan, as well as two...
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A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.--
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