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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

I just saw this quote in an article on Viet Nam:

A Hindu master once remarked, "Quenching our desires with material gain is 
like seeking to extinguish a burning fire with butter."

Having more "things" cannot answer the question: how much is enough?

Jerry Shepperd


At 10:37 AM 6/8/2005, Gene GeRue wrote:

> > It is telling that we (as a whole) no longer find fulfillment outside of 
> > what we can buy rather than what we can do or what we can be.  One of the 
> > saws that the Nearings used in much of their writings was "Have less, be more."
>
> One of the titles waiting to be written is: Living Large on Little.


"Sometimes silence is golden; often, however, it is yellow."