Simplicity

Imagining a Thoreau-style life of simplicity

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A BBC journalist spent five years in a remote hillside cottage in Wales, without water, electricity, gas or people.  He has now distilled what he learned about purpose, the natural world and the advantages of staying still. ...read more

On Sufficiency

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In 2008 I was last in Sweden, a country that fascinates me, from its seemingly largely successful embracing of a political "third way", through to its national values of transparency, simplicity and a deep-rooted link to the country's rural roots which, I'm told, is still reflected in many people's surnames.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's a Swedish equivalent of kanyini and I'm also intrigued by lagom, another Swedish concept that resonates with me, as I am sure it would with many others who are striving towards gratitude and self-sufficiency.

Could having just enough be "the new black?"

On Alchemy

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Halcyon Inspired includes some of the c.3000 quotes by others that have made me feel and have made me think. 

Many of these quotes are already available on the community pages at Halcyon Future, but I will now also start to share these quotes more widely in Halcyon Inspired in order to encourage others to reflect upon and make use of the ideas - and in many cases, the timeless and profound wisdom - contained within them. 

For now, I will deliberately not comment directly on most of the quotes that I post because, although they stir much in me, I would rather leave it you, Dear Reader, to interact with the quotes in your own way.

I will therefore simply tag the quotes under the same categories that I use for all other entries.  However, I firmly believe that most value comes not from leaving ideas within their categories - on the contrary, such silo thinking actually compounds many of the world's problems - but rather, like a chemist or perhaps an alchemist, from introducing to one another ideas that have never met. 

For example, how well can acceptance co-exist with activism, complexity with simplicity, or consumption with sustainability?  Only one way to find out: let's get them together and watch novelty emerge...

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