When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom. Mark Boyle More Quotes by Mark Boyle More Quotes From Mark Boyle We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet. Mark Boyle planets destruction obsession If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. Mark Boyle tables-and-chairs drinking water One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time. Mark Boyle beautiful giving way Art should be waged like war. Mark Boyle should war art The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them. Mark Boyle house letting-go thinking I think it's wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one's needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it's only one way. Mark Boyle way needs thinking In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive. Mark Boyle cash environment people I think every single thing we do is political. Even if you go to the shops and buy a packet of biscuits, then you're buying into the system, willingly or not. I think we're conditioned into thinking political systems as being either communism or capitalism. I think there are a lot more options available. We just haven't explored them. Mark Boyle political buying thinking We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true. Mark Boyle found opposites needs I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people. Mark Boyle communication keys thinking I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it. Mark Boyle order needs thinking I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach. Mark Boyle coaches would-be thinking
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