Ebook: Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity

Introduction: beginning a path to plain living -- Keeping to plainness by choosing inward simplicity, simple living -- Beginning with ourselves and our work, time, integrity, plain speech, money and resources -- Plain living day by day in committed relationships, parenting and mentoring, aging, humor, joy, and gratitude -- Unexpected songs for times of fear, suffering, despair, death, grief, hope -- Opening our hearts through longing, seeking, God, faith, prayer, scripture -- Discovering a spiritual path to plain living through contemplative listening, everyday musticism, leadings, discernment -- Growing together in community, decision-making, struggle and conflict resolution, reconciliation and forgiveness -- Let us see what love can do in practicing nonviolence, seeking equality for all, listening to the earth, spirit-led service.