While the Simple Abundance path is gentle, its lessons are powerful. First of all, we learn to be grateful no matter what our circumstances may be. In offering gratitude for our real lives, we discover how to change them for the better. As we embrace simplicity, we learn that less is truly more. This freedom encourages us to bring order to our affairs and daily round and cultivate harmony in our inner world. Going at our own pace, learning to recognize our limitations and personal patterns, appreciating our authentic
progress, we weave the lessons into the fabric of our daily moments until they become a part of us.
Suddenly one day we feel very much alive and the desire for more beauty in our personal quest bursts through the grey fog of what had been quiet desperation or resignation. We come to a deep awareness that creating a beautiful life is our highest calling. “It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures yet always missing its color and sheen,” the journalist Anna Louise Strong confessed in 1935. We understand her sentiments as life’s color, sheen and beauty calls to us.
Today explore ways to see your world differently. Let your eyes drink in the beauty that surrounds you. Walk to a gallery on your lunch hour and meditate upon a beautiful painting or into your backyard this afternoon to catch the season’s “certain Slant of light” that so enthralled Emily Dickinson. Gaze into the faces of those you love, set the table with care and relish the preparations you make for dinner, delighting in the presentation of your meal. Light the candles, pour wine or sparkling water in your prettiest goblets, and celebrate this new awareness. It is in the details of the Simple Abundance life that beauty is revealed, sustained, nurtured and celebrated.
While the Simple Abundance path is gentle, its lessons are powerful. First of all, we learn to be grateful no matter what our circumstances may be. In offering gratitude for our real lives, we discover how to change them for the better. As we embrace simplicity, we learn that less is truly more. This freedom encourages us to bring order to our affairs and daily round and cultivate harmony in our inner world. Going at our own pace, learning to recognize our limitations and personal patterns, appreciating our authentic
progress, we weave the lessons into the fabric of our daily moments until they become a part of us.
Suddenly one day we feel very much alive and the desire for more beauty in our personal quest bursts through the grey fog of what had been quiet desperation or resignation. We come to a deep awareness that creating a beautiful life is our highest calling. “It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures yet always missing its color and sheen,” the journalist Anna Louise Strong confessed in 1935. We understand her sentiments as life’s color, sheen and beauty calls to us.
Today explore ways to see your world differently. Let your eyes drink in the beauty that surrounds you. Walk to a gallery on your lunch hour and meditate upon a beautiful painting or into your backyard this afternoon to catch the season’s “certain Slant of light” that so enthralled Emily Dickinson. Gaze into the faces of those you love, set the table with care and relish the preparations you make for dinner, delighting in the presentation of your meal. Light the candles, pour wine or sparkling water in your prettiest goblets, and celebrate this new awareness. It is in the details of the Simple Abundance life that beauty is revealed, sustained, nurtured and celebrated.
