A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

savour those moments

somewhere between too little and too much

It occurs to me that perhaps the cat is a monk. By this I do not mean an

to curl up in the sun and slumber peacefully

ear reader, don’t believe the elders and philosophers. Wisdom does not come with age. Maybe it is born in th

If you have the ability, or rather the gift, of being able to see beauty in small things, then old age should hold no terrors.

I may not have contributed anything towards the progress of civilization, but neither have I robbed the world of anything. Not one tree or bush or bird or flower. Even the spider on my wall is welcome to his space.

What we should worry about is not desiring what we have not, but desiring too much, and desiring only for ourselves.

Epicurus gave us the word epicurean, denoting a love of the good things in life, and presumably he enjoyed the best of all possible worlds, or else he would not be so uncomplaining.

God bless the inventor of sleep, the clock that covers all men’s thoughts.’