Finding Peace in a World that Won’t Slow Down
This site is all about being a sustainable vegan. And although it’s not always possible in a world that wants us to speed up and by noisy, often the best lifestyles are those that slow down and are quieter.
Driving through busy traffic to a rushed loud supermarket to buy processed vegan food, is not really the way to live a simple sustainable life. Often it requires voting for good town planners, but a nice lifestyle would be to walk to the farmers’ market, to buy organic food from local farmers, then walk back home again to cook it (slowly) while chatting with friends, enjoying nature.
Walking in nature is a wonderful way to slow down your thoughts, and get better mental health. You can almost ‘feel God’ in those times, something that’s hard to do, stuck in the middle of a traffic jam!
Getting up early to watch the sunrise, or staying up later to watch the sunset, are two of the miracles of nature.
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important, when there is a sunset outside that you could be sitting under. C JoyBell C
You want proof there’s a God? Look outside, watch a sunset. Frank E Peretti
Breaking free from the clock (unless it’s very necessary for your job) can help to shift your focus from rigid rules to natural energy and intuition. Years ago, nobody had clocks and likely were all the better for it.
If you need to tell the time, invest in a vegan sustainable watch!
Not using a watch or clock (at least on days off) helps you to live in the present moment. Not checking your phone all the time also helps your mind to slow down, and just enjoy being in the present.
Shift from strict meal times and just eat when you’re hungry. Rest when you’re tired and sleep when your eyes start to close. This can help to restore your internal biological rhyhtms and even help cure insomnia.
That’s the great thing about entering a convent. There are things that you simply can’t do. So you don’t have to worry about them. Lars von Trier
The Fullness of Time (a journey back to nature)
The Fullness of Time is a journey into the forgotten art of marking time through sings in the world around us – from the slow sliding of sunbeams to the wheeling of the stars.
Past generations would tell time by shadows shrinking (think of a sundial), the midday glow over a mountaintop, or the crowing of the rooster in darkness (today, city dwellers move to the country then complain about the cockerel waking them up at dawn!)
Years ago, people would notice flowers that close at noon, sensed how the quality of life changes at dusk, and marked time at night, by the motion of the stars.
Yet today in our clock-bound, screen-immersed world, most of us rely on machines to mark the hours. But what riches may we gain, from reclaiming the forgotten art of sensing time, by events in the living world?
Roaming from ancient download to city streets, this book is an adventure in search of the patterns that once shaped the rhythm of our days, and an invitation to discover the simple sensory joys of truly paying attention.
