Book description
With the arrival of the 21st century we have encountered a mental and
material explosion in the Western world: we have near-unlimited
information at our fingertips, we can have children who are healthy and
safe, and we have wealth and possessions beyond what most of the world
can dream of. However, this is not a boast. We are more stressed than we
have ever been: the majority of us are profoundly unhappy. Despite the
potential of prosperity, our fears are undiminished: we are stuck with
cars and computers and houses and mobiles and hundreds of other tiny
apparent â needsâ that, when all combined, build to something
unsustainable. Though we are surrounded by what we want, our desire to
keep and still get more creates a pressure that we cannot tolerate. But
we do not need to â keep up with the Jonesesâ . The flip side of our
societyâ s growth is that we can choose what to accept, and what not to
accept: what to keep, and what to lose, joyfully and consciously. With
this handbook of simplicity, Leo Babauta shows us: â ¢ why less is
powerful â ¢ how to know what you want, and what you need â ¢ how to
choose what is essential, and clear out the rest With The Power of Less,
you will be able to start a complete shift from wanting everything to
needing nothing, be able to live your life simply without compromise,
and discover that though we cannot have everything we want, we can
obtain anything we will ever need. With this book, you will find how to
go through life not carefully, but carefreely.
