Voluntary Simplicity Circle Thursday - Mar. 12, 2009 – Compassionate Simplicity

When: Mar. 12th, 2009 - 7 pm to 9 pm
Where: 28 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison Ave. - red door, ring the bell for the gallery) in Manhattan
Cost: Free
Who: open to all interested persons.

What is a voluntary simplicity circle? In our voluntary simplicity circle, we help each other work toward personal transformation and make better connections to community resources through this interactive dialog. The objective is to provide a supportive environment for individuals who are actively making changes in their lives, within the framework of voluntary simplicity.

This year, we are going to be going through Duane Elgin’s list of different types of simplicity.

On Mar. 12th, we are going to talk about Compassionate Simplicity:

Compassionate Simplicity: Simplicity means to feel such a strong sense of kinship with others that, as Gandhi said, we “choose to live simply so that others may simply live.” A compassionate simplicity means feeling a bond with the community of life and being drawn toward a path of reconciliation—with other species and future generations as well as, for example, between those with great differences of wealth and opportunity. A compassionate simplicity is a path of cooperation and fairness that seeks a future of mutually assured development for all.

See here for more about the format of our Voluntary Simplicity Circle.

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Hope to see you there!
Kirsten