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As the complexity of my life grew, I discovered a gem: The key to Happiness is a simpler living, when life becomes all about finding joys in the simple pleasures of life, being content with solitude, quiet, contemplation, the awe of the daily sunrise and sunset, savouring the moment, the centrality of family and friends, the anchors that have kept me afloat in often stormy and challenging seas.
The wisdom and the healing power of simplicity: The day I discovered the wisdom of William Morris
William Morris, photographed by Frederick Hollyer in 1884. Photograph: © National Portrait Gallery, London
Nota bene
I had heard about William Morris, but I knew next to nothing about who he was. I can vaguely remember years and years ago visiting an old house in Coventry. I commented on an old-looking, but amazingly beautiful wallpaper in the hall and the landing. Our guide told me it was by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts Movement, you know! That was it!
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As I was reading about this fascinating book, I could not believe my eyes, how much and how deeply it was resonating with me, my life, my journey, pain, healing, finding joy, appreciating mother nature, finding solace in poetry and much more. This is why I am so happy for the opportunity of sharing this with you, the reader and visitor of this website. So come along and let us journey together, you, me and Esther Rutter.
But, first, I must note why and how Rutter's book and journey so much resonates with me. To this end I can do no better than sharing the following links with you. Please have a look and you will discover amply for yourselves:
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Small is beautiful is the antidote to the vandalism and vulgarity of neoliberalism, the ideology that has always championed greed and envy, amongst other human vices.
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“If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures. If whole societies become infected by these vices, they may indeed achieve astonishing things but they become increasingly incapable of solving the most elementary problems of everyday existence.”
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