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Voluntary SimplicityVOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY:
Toward a Way of Life That Is
Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

by Duane Elgin


When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. More than a dozen years later, with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane Elgin has extensively revised and updated his revolutionary book.

Voluntary Simplicity is not a book about living in poverty; it is a book about living with balance. It illuminates the pattern of changes that an increasing number of Americans are making in their everyday lives: adjustments in day-to-day living that are an active, positive response to the complex dilemmas of our time. By choosing lives of great simplicity, people have the power to develop more satisfying and soulful ways of living, and the power to change the world.

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