Simplifying our lives.

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A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran

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The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world,

and they that dwell therein. -- Psalms

 

 

You and I are trustees. Nothing belongs to us personally. The

resources of our planet have been entrusted to every one of

us together. Like good bank trustees, we are expected not to

squander these resources but to invest them wisely for our

beneficiaries: the rest of life, especially the generations

to come.

 

The trust includes not only the lives and natural resources

of the planet, but our inner resources as well. This has very

practical implications. We can lessen our potentially exhausting

impact on the earth by simplifying our desires and demands.

Simplicity is the key to trusteeship.

 

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)

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