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Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
Slideshow and Booksigning with Author David Wann
Feb. 9th, 7:00-8:30pm, SLO Library
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David Wann, author of nine books (including coauthoring Affluenza) and
filmmaker (check out Designing a Great Neighborhood in our film
library) and overalll sustainable lifestyle activist for over 25 years
will be here on the central coast. See excerpt below from his newest
book (published by St. Martin’s Press). For more details about him
please click here .
Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann
Excerpt:
<<When Dr. Dean Ornish encouraged one of his patients to adopt a
healthier lifestyle, the patient’s response was, “I have twenty friends
in this pack of cigarettes that I can always depend on -- what can you
offer me that’s any better?” Similarly, if we make a heroic effort to
break our widespread addiction to over-consumption, what will take its
place? This book proposes that when we change a few key priorities,
many of our material wants will cease to be obsessions. It’s not just
that we won’t need the next generation of gadgets or clothes; we truly
won’t even want them. Instead of fidgety, addictive consumption, our
lives will be filled with the real wealth of sanity, health, hope,
caring, connection, participation, and purpose. All we have to do is
unplug and change our priorities.
We try to buy real wealth with money, often unsuccessfully. There’s no
price tag for some of life’s most essential values, for example, an
abundance of memorable moments completely free of stress. Real wealth
is the calmness and contentedness that comes with feeling good,
physically; the sense of well being that makes anything seem like an
event. Real wealth is finding the rhythm of natural cycles and jumping
in. It’s understanding how the world works and substituting information
and brilliant design for resources.>>
Contact Dave Wann at davewann@comcast.net.
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