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“The first jump—that’s the most difficult part. Because you’ll always have some people who say things like, ‘Why would you do that?’ or ‘How can you do that?’ or ‘If you could do that thing you want to do—write that novel or become an entrepreneur or travel the world or whatever—then everyone would be doing it.’ It’s important to remember that these naysayers are just projecting. It’s that ingrained fear we all have, a natural instinct. We tend to be afraid of bucking the status quo. But when you do take that first jump, it actually becomes terrifying to do ‘normal’ things, because you realize what a risk it is to give up your entire life just to be normal.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“There is more joy and fulfillment in pursuing less than can be found in pursuing more.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“When I got rid of the majority of my possessions, I was forced to confront my darker side, compelled to ask questions I wasn’t prepared for: When did I give so much meaning to material possessions? What is truly important in life? Why am I discontented? Who is the person I want to become? How will I define my own success?”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“Understand, every moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame, hot and burning, flickering, the fire tantalizing the drab creature with its blueish-white illumination. But when the moth flies too close to the flame, we all know what happens: it gets burned, incinerated by the very thing that drew it near. For decades now, I have played the role of the moth, lured by the flame of consumerism, pop culture’s beautiful conflagration, a firestorm of lust and greed and wanting, a haunting desire to consume that which cannot be consumed, to be fulfilled by that which can never be fulfilling. A vacant proposition, leaving me empty inside, which further fuels my desire to consume. Accepting the flame for what it is, then, is important: it is necessary and beautiful and, most of all, dangerous. Realizing this, becoming aware of the danger, is difficult to do. But this is how we wake up.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions,”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“The things you own end up owning you.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.’ ”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real value. The real value was in the words—in the act of reading—not in the physical books themselves. There’s no value in having a room full of books you don’t need—especially when other people can get value from those books.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“Ultimately most of us come to believe there’s more value in a paycheck—and all the stuff that paycheck can buy us—than there is in life itself.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“Now, before I spend money I ask myself one question: Is this worth my freedom? Like: Is this coffee worth two dollars of my freedom? Is this shirt worth thirty dollars of my freedom? Is this car worth thirty thousand dollars of my freedom? In other words, am I going to get more value from the thing I’m about to purchase, or am I going to get more value from my freedom?”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“The idea is to rid yourself of the things that only shackle you and only pile your thoughts, time and budget up with unnecessary items.”
― Tyler Logan, The Minimalist Budget: Spend Less, Save Money and Live More with Minimalism

“The conventional belief is that the more we acquire, the happier we become. In reality, there is nothing further from the truth. Imagine yourself holding a candy bar, and then imagine yourself holding 50 candy bars. With one candy bar you are able to enjoy a little sweetness in your life, but while juggling 50 candy bars in two hands, the weight, the overdose and the immobility turns those 50 candy bars into a burden that do almost nothing to add value to your time or life.”
― Tyler Logan, The Minimalist Budget: Spend Less, Save Money and Live More with Minimalism

“The idea of minimalist budgeting, however, is not to divert the money traffic to other expenditures, but rather to allocate your money to necessary expenses only, and to free yourself from consumerism.”
― Tyler Logan, The Minimalist Budget: Spend Less, Save Money and Live More with Minimalism

“Your earnings should not define your expenditures, your personal lifestyle should.”
― Tyler Logan, The Minimalist Budget: Spend Less, Save Money and Live More with Minimalism

“Don't waste your life trying to become somebody else.   Don't waste your life trying to live up to your performance expectations.   Don't waste your life imitating others.   Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations.   Don't waste your life envious of other people.   Be authentic. Be genuine. Be real. Be yourself.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Buddhism is a non-theistic belief suggesting a path of spiritual development can offer the individual insight into the true nature of reality.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The Buddha encouraged his followers to never accept what was put to them as truth by anyone else without scrutiny or skepticism. He also suggested enlightenment is within each of us. We just have to accept that we are, as we are, every one of us a Buddha.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The greatest lesson Zen can give those who seek spirituality is simply to accept that we are part of all that is within the cosmos. There is no distinction between YOU and I and WE. We are all in this together, as the same, as one. We are each other.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“If you truly desire a spiritual base to your life you must make the effort every day to commit to such.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Zen is the practice of being still, while doing what we do in our lives, so that we are focused and connected with what we are doing.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“When you are able to sit quietly and allow all the world to go about it’s business without your interaction, comment or opinion, you acknowledge that everything is fine, just the way it is.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“It is the human beings ability to perceive himself as distinct from everything around him that creates his separateness from everything and everyone else. When we remove this separateness we open our hearts and minds to compassion and understanding that we are all the same. It is through meditation that this type of insight is cultivated and finds a place within the core beliefs and personal integrity of those who practice Zen.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“It is in this state of not thinking that we learn to accept our place within the world without wanting anything from it in return.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Either we can be present in our own lives, in what we are doing here and now, focused and attentive to our immediate situation, or we can allow our mind to take us far away to irrelevant and frivolous concerns.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The universe is obviously here. You are here. Asking why to either point seems rather pointless and unnecessary.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“With practice the inner voice recognizes the calm as more nourishing than the chatter and a change starts to unfold naturally.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“The single most important thing we can do for our own sense of integrity and spirituality is simply allow ourselves to take such time as needed each day to reflect upon our lives.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“When we allow our minds to be clouded by thoughts of what others may think or say about us, or others, we immediately lose grasp of integrity we yearn to nourish. The truth is what others think is not real. It only becomes real or of value when we allow it to affect us emotionally. In the same way that our thoughts do not define who we are the thoughts of others do not define who we are.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)

“Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is also the state of being whole or complete. Personal integrity is our sense of being honest, moral and whole.”
― David Carlyle, Box Set: 4 Books On Zen Buddhism, Meditation & Spirituality: Zen Truth & Spirituality, Zen Buddhism No Buddha, Meditation For Beginners, Atheism & Spirituality ... Meditation, Life Choices Book 6)