February 4th, 2013
July 17th, 2011
Your greatest capital asset is your attention.
R. Jarow
April 7th, 2011
February 6th, 2011
Nothing better.
January 29th, 2011
my affection for hotels is so great I sleep in them in even when I am not traveling. And concierges ask me if I’d like a map, or do I want to know what the nearby amenities are, and I smile and sometimes i say something like- oh I just live about 10 minutes away actually, and they giggle. (Taken with instagram)
January 19th, 2011
Taken with instagram
December 24th, 2010
October 10th, 2010
September 11th, 2010
trembling adored: smoke
I want you to stop smoking, I really do. I want you to stop because I hate the thought of you someday not getting enough air, of you not getting enough of anything. But when we put our clothes back on and sit on the step, just barely out of the rain, and you smoke your cigarette and I smoke my…
September 5th, 2010
“This way of life is not a static condition to achieve but an ever changing balance that must be continuously and consciously made real. Simplicity in this sense is not simple. To maintain a skillful balance between the inner and outer aspects of our lives in an enormously challenging and continuously changing process. The objective is not to dogmatically live with less, but is a more demanding intention of living with balance in order to find a life of greater purpose, fulfillment, and satisfaction.”
“Poverty is involuntary and debilitating, whereas simplicity is voluntary and enabling. Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit. In voluntary poverty generates a sense of helplessness, passivity, and despair, whereas purposeful simplicity fosters a sense of personal empowerment, creative engagement, and opportunity.
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich.
By Duane Elgin
