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2327: 3 Simple Things We Can All Learn from the Quaker Testimony of Simplicity by Kyle Kowalski of Sloww

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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The Quaker Testimony of Simplicity

The quaker testimony of simplicity is a spiritual discipline. Quakers have long referred to the unnecessary accumulation of material items as cumber, and they believed it obscured their vis of both god's will and reality. It can be spiritually cleansing to disinvest oneself of unnecessary possessions or give away things you no longer truly need. We simplify our lives in order to come closer to the truth. For the quakers, living simply is about seeking to live more meaningfully.

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