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In keeping with its title, this is a straightforward book, beautifully illustrated, well ordered, with clear directions and useful references. What is more, it is written without cant, and, most importantly, not by a zealot but by a practitioner. Only someone who has sought to practise the simple life would know its detail, the small matters that make it so. -- David Cadman Resurgence
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This is a book about simplicity - not destitution, parsimoniousness or self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an afflence in which we are starving the spirit. It is a book about the advantages of living a less cluttered, less stressful life than that which has become the norm in the overcrowded and manic-paced consuming nations. It is a book about having less and enjoying more, enjoying time to do the work you love, enjoying time to spend with your family, enjoying time to pursue creative projects, enjoying time for good eating, enjoying time just to be.
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62 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Lane has written a book that sets out to help anyone wanting to simplify their life. It has chapters that focus on 'why simplicity?', obstacles that may arise and a short but comprehensive history of simplicity through the ages as well as sections that help to show how- not with precise, detailed instructions but with an impression of what to do.
My favourite chapter is 'The sacred arts of life' which has short sections on food, homemaking (how much more satisfying a term than housekeeping!), the garden and cooking. I'd like to read a whole book just on these alone!
The book is illustrated by woodcuts of simple living e.g. the cover's hands kneading bread and these provide images to meditate on while you read. Chapters are prefaced by suitable passages or quotes, and words from the masters are interspersed throughout. A rather short bibliography is compensated for by detailed chapter notes and bibliographies which provide a 'next step' in the simplification chain.
My favourite chapter is 'The sacred arts of life' which has short sections on food, homemaking (how much more satisfying a term than housekeeping!), the garden and cooking. I'd like to read a whole book just on these alone!
The book is illustrated by woodcuts of simple living e.g. the cover's hands kneading bread and these provide images to meditate on while you read. Chapters are prefaced by suitable passages or quotes, and words from the masters are interspersed throughout. A rather short bibliography is compensated for by detailed chapter notes and bibliographies which provide a 'next step' in the simplification chain.
I have read the book several times and am now in the process of passing it on to help others to simplify.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a good introduction to the idea of a living a more simple life and includes a history of some who adhered to a more simple way of living. It does not provide much practical information on how to live more simply. The content is good- just not what i was expecting or looking for.
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed reading this book. The book gets behind the spiritual benefits of simple living and makes many references to historical figures who choose to live a simple and harmonious life.
This book is not a cookbook of things to do but instead gets one thinking and lets us decide how we go about the finer points of simplifying our own lives.
This book is not a cookbook of things to do but instead gets one thinking and lets us decide how we go about the finer points of simplifying our own lives.
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A bit disappointing
I expected from the title of the book that this would be a book giving tips for living simply but instead it was a book trying to convince me I should live simply. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Purple_Skull
Changed my life.
This book truly changed the way in which I view my whole life, in the most wonderful way. If you have ever felt dissatisfied with our consumer culture, despairing at the loss of... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Catherine Hess
Very inspiring
I have read a number of books and blogs about simple living, and this is the most enjoyable I've read. Read more
Published 7 months ago by bookworm
Timeless Simplicity
I live a fairly simple and frugal life and bought this book for more inspiration. I read it from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it, I found it inspirational and strangely... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Book worm
Dissappointing conservative rant
I ought to like this book, but I really don't. It has illustrations by Clifford Harper, whose work I really like. It is a critique of mindless materialism. Read more
Published on 25 April 2008 by Jezza
the restless children of a restless civilization
That's how John Lane describes us in his book `Timeless Simplicity: Creative living in a consumer society`. Read more
Published on 18 April 2008 by Jeremy Williams
A straight-forward book.
I find this book to be more straight-forward in presenting the ideas of voluntary simplicity. There's no new-age or hippy stuff here, just a sensible description of voluntary... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2006 by A. M. Douglas
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