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Traveling
There is something liberating about minimizing your life to one carry-on and one personal item with all your liquid toilettries in 3 oz bottles in a 1 quart clear plastic bag. This is the point where you whittle down the creature comforts to only the essential items. This is how you determine what you actually need versus what you only think you need.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I read somewhere that the more philosphical Greeks wore their togas for very utilitarian reasons. They wore it as a garment, then used the same toga as a blanket to sleep under, then maybe as a towel after they bathed; and who knows what other clever uses a Greek could find for his Toga. Their purpose was to do away with as much of the requirements of day to day life as they could for the simple purpose of having the time to think, argue, philosophize etc.
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosopshers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.”-Thoreau