Duane Elgin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.
-- Duane Elgin

#Spiritual #Compassion #Luxury
Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.
-- Duane Elgin

#Mean #Simplicity #Faces
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
-- Duane Elgin

#Reality #Energy #Attention
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
-- Duane Elgin

#Simple #Essence #Simplicity
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough â€¦ and then just let go of all the rest.
-- Duane Elgin

#Letting Go #Self #Important
The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.
-- Duane Elgin

#Inspiring #Moving #Simplicity
If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?
-- Duane Elgin

#Humanity #Quality #Alternatives
Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.â€Â Or, as Plato wrote, â€œIn order to seek oneâ€™s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
-- Duane Elgin

#Plato #Order #Everyday
In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.
-- Duane Elgin

#Simple #People #Simplicity
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.
-- Duane Elgin

#Integrity #Mean #Simple
To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.
-- Duane Elgin

#Mean #Simple #Simplicity
I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.
-- Duane Elgin

#Simple #Live Simply #Conscious
It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.
-- Duane Elgin

#Moving #Simple #Simplicity
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.
-- Duane Elgin

#Spiritual #Real #Simple
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
-- Duane Elgin

#Simple #Simplicity #Mind
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.
-- Duane Elgin

#Appreciation #Mean #Simplicity
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.
-- Duane Elgin

#Pain #Loss #Giving

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