EMBRACING SIMPLICITY

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There is a good market for simplicity these days, but one can't help wondering if it is really simplicity that is being promoted. Books and magazines that tell people how to live simply often promote a new for of consumerism. Gurus of organization equate simplicity with tidiness. The kind of simplicity that removes clutter from the soul has more to do with poverty of spirit and a contemplative attitude than with orderliness and a taste for the classic. Spiritual simplicity, like material simplicity, depends on the skill of knowing when to let go of what is useful to make room for what is essential. It doesn't take the deprivation of material poverty, but it does take something akin to poverty of spirit. (JANE KOPAS)

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