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  • From: "Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] . . . and the Home of the Complacent
  • Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:45:15 -0500

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."




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