Simplifying our lives: Insights to living fully now

What does it mean to simplify our lives? We want to boil down our lives to the essence, to what is most real about us. We feel frazzled and pulled in all directions. There is so much going on in our lives. Spouses and children and parents all demand pieces of us. Bosses and customers and clients and volunteer opportunities overrun our time. We want to know, when is there time for me? We want to simmer away all the excess and live simply, to be simply us. And yet we resonate to the call to add more gusto to our lives, to live more fully. We don't want to miss a thing. There is a way to do both. Warning: If you cannot find something here from which your life, heart or business can prosper, then it is a signal you're not truly awake. Read this more slowly than most other books. Savor the words and the thoughts. This book is to be sipped, not guzzled. When one insight catches your mind, put the book down and think about it. Probably you will only read four or five insights at a sitting. These are discoveries made in the experiment, discoveries that can lead you to your own more significant truths. Look for your own meanings. Your life is full of meaning_you need only look around. The writer's role is to help you notice. Look and see. This is a book to re-read, to come back to again and again to mine more from the same shaft. Simplifying our lives: Insights to living fully now consists mainly of short sayings and aphorisms designed to start the reader thinking about his or her own meaning and purpose, creativity, relationships, and happiness, plus a helpful introduction and an inspiring concluding chapter. This book is best read in small pieces and set down as your mind starts to find its new way.