Healthy poverty & simplicity

Now that school is out its seems we have a little more time on our hands. I'm even reading a new book. Its called Adventures in Simple Living (A creation-centered spirituality). Let me quote you something from the first chapter

"Emptiness , The way of leading a healthy poverty and simplicity in our lives. This is essential in becoming who we really are. We are too busy, too caught up in the fast currents of modern living (especially with its commercialism), too dependent on the television to entertain us and an array of conveniences to save us time. We then spend our time working so that we can pay for the conveniences. In doing this we are cheating ourselves of the time , the peace and the silence needed to be an unique happy person. I loved this next part,

Commitment to live a simple unwasteful life challenges us to limit our wants and to satisfy our needs with our own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and hard but satisfying work. We must dig deep in the restful longing and yearning for exercise of our creativity that prowls, mostly unsatisfied within us.

I'm sure the quote from the book has different impacts on each of us, stemming for the point we are in our lives. For me I completely understood where the writer was coming from. It is refreshing and recharging. I remember.