WHAT IS SIMPLE LIVING?

Here are a few powerful recommendations to live absolutely simple

VOICEOFSHARK
7 min readMay 20, 2022
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The term “simple residing” receives thrown around lots nowadays.

It’s become a huge trend with books, YouTube channels and podcasts all committed to simplicity. And paradoxically it’s also come to be a huge industry with online retreats designed to provide you with a much less complicated existence.

But simple residing as a reaction towards materialism is as old as antiquity — even though it’s now wrapped in a brand new package deal.

Religious leaders from Buddha to Muhammed have encouraged easier lifestyles dedicated to self-expertise and correct deeds.

And literary thinkers have left behind the excesses of their age to reconnect with existence’s essence, from Henry David Thoreau and his sojourn to Walden Pond to Leo Tolstoy and his admiration for a rural existence.

The Greek logician Diogenes used his easy lifestyle to criticize the corrupt society of his day. More lately, the Bohemians of Paris lived for artwork above the pursuit of cloth possessions.

So what exactly is straightforward residing?
It’s now not a strict lifestyle that everybody follows identically.

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