Deliberately Organizing Your Life

“Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and outer condition. It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter, of many possessions irrelevant to the chief purpose of life. It means an ordering and guiding of our energy and our desires, a partial restraint in some directions in order to secure greater abundance of life in other directions. It involves a deliberate organization of life for a purpose.“

— Richard Gregg, 1936
Quaker lawyer and writer

Today’s Invitation

Notice when restraint in some directions secures greater abundance in others.

This Week’s Query

What simple things give you joy?

Share your response!

Author

Richard Gregg

Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885–1974) was an American Quaker social philosopher said to be "the first American to develop a substantial theory of nonviolent resistance" based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and so influenced the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr., Aldous Huxley, civil-rights theorist Bayard Rustin, the pacifist and socialist reformer Jessie Wallace Hughan, and the Peace Pledge Union.
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