If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Kay Redfield Jamison

The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.

Duane Elgin

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Shunryu Suzuki

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

You have control over you and that is the only person you can change. When you realize this you will save yourself a lot of frustration.

Catherine Pulsifer

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi