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Bitesize Inspiration: Simplicity with Joan Chittister

  There has been so much written about how to live well and how to live a simple life over the centuries. Some of our best sources of inspiration come from spiritual and religious texts - people who, centuries ago, had time to contemplate and meditate such existential questions. This week's inspiration comes from a contemporary spiritual writer - Joan Chittester . Chittester belongs to the order of Benedictine sisters and has written so much on spirituality, how to live well, religion, social issues and more. Recently I started reading her book, Becoming Fully Human, from which I have taken this week's quote. I hope it speaks it to as much as it did to me at this time.  I have made a lot of changes recently in my life and I am striving hard for a more simple life. I think what was missing though was this thought of Chittister's. I was making many physical and situational changes but not really addressing my own heart and reaction to the myriad of things that life brings. Th...