For this week’s meditation on how to do without, we turn to one of my favorite Russian writers, Feodor Dostoyevsky, who keenly points out…
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
I don’t know about you, but as I grow older (I’m 61 years old as I write these words in June 0f 2009) I have less and less interest in all the stuff I’ve bought, borrowed, or inherited during my years on this ball of dirt.
I mean, seriously, I could give away just about everything I own and never miss most of it for more than a few minutes.
I don’t know if that’s the slumbering mystic in me trying to get out of work so I can move to a mountain top and contemplate my navel for the rest of my days or if it’s a serious aberration of some sort that’s causing me to reject the American habit of constantly accumulating more and more stuff.
Honestly, though, I really do yearn for a day when I can live very simply with little more than the basic needs of life.
Well, let’s meditate on Dostoyevsky’s observation this coming week and see where it takes us and how we can do without.
Breathe in your stuff… hold… then breathe it out and let it go, completely.
Really let it go.
Repeat… and repeat… and repeat…
No more stuff.
Freedom.
Bliss.
We hope, eh?
Until next time, I’m still named…
