Create a Wonderful Life

I'm sharing this passage from William Henry Channing. since his words best reflect my own way of seeing:

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than

luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not

respectable, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;

to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;

to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry

never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,

grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing was an American transcendentalist like Emerson, and his good friend Henry David Thoreau + so many others who saw through the veil separating us from nature's glad tidings. And he taught the real wealth in life is not to make a million dollars but to live a life of modest means and not get in over your head with the caste system that teaches people to get in debt to spire to more and more material accumulations and that we are separate from each other and nature.

By living simply you can focus your energy on what Emerson is getting at here, sharing your enthusiasm for life with the world: