Publication Date: September 1, 2003

ISBN: 0-9672067-9-0
Cateogry: Body, Mind & Spirit/Self-Help
Price: U.S. $15.95
7-3/8" x 9", trade paper, 240 pages
Includes Bibliography and Index
Contents and Excerpts

You can purchase Simplicity Lessons on line from The Simple Living Network, Amazon and other online booksellers. This book is also available in many retail book stores.

Simplicity Lessons is a practical guide for those who long for a slower pace of life with more time for joyful relationships, fulfilling work, and living one's dreams. This book takes simplicity to a new level. It goes beyond providing knowledge and inspiration for living more simply. Simplicity Lessons guides the reader first to reflect, and then take action on what's most important in life.

Working on your own or as part of a simplicity study group, you will explore the major areas of your life: material possessions, money, time, work, housing, transportation, relationships, inner simplicity, health, community, and environmental sustainability. You will consider not only what simplicity looks like for you as an individual, but also what we can do to create a more simplicity-friendly society.

Simplicity Lessons is an ideal resource for college students and young adults, for people who are contemplating major changes in life, or for anyone who yearns to live more consciously and deliberately.

Advance Praise for Simplicity Lessons:

"Thank you, Linda Pierce - you've given us another eminently useful and readable book. Each lesson provides sound data for the mind, inviting reflections for the soul and a range of practical exercises perfect for the simplicity "toe dipper" and "full-body jumper" alike. The lessons also integrate the small steps we can take on our own with the long-term public policy changes that might afford everyone a more balanced, humane and meaning-rich life. While each suggestion is do-able and practical, taken together this book shows how revolutionary simplicity really is."
                    --Vicki Robin, coauthor, Your Money or Your Life, and
                           Chair, The Simplicity Forum

"It's the simple things that will change our world to be the way we know and dream that it can be. While most of us are trapped and increasingly stressed on a treadmill going nowhere, Linda Been Pierce delivers to us an antidote to the complexities that plague our daily lives. Her book offers a simple and elegant way to take back one's life and find a deeper level of contentment in the everyday."
                    --Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, CEO, Omega Institute and
                           author, TimeShifting: Creating Time to Enjoy Your Life

"Everywhere you look in our society you see people in trouble and unhappy. So many are seduced by artificial desires, emotions and egos. Naturally, then, there is calamity and confusion. But then there are a few, like Linda Pierce, who show the way out of the traps. She shows how to return to that which is simple, modest, and true. Your life will be blessed if you follow her guide."
                    --John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America
                           and The Food Revolution

"Discover a life of elegant simplicity that fits your unique circumstances, and then transform inspiration into action with this practical study guide. Simplicity Lessons is a valuable resource for anyone seeking a more satisfying and sustainable way of life."
                    --Duane Elgin, author of Voluntary Simplicity and
                           Promise Ahead

"The evidence is clear - America's high-consumption lifestyles are unhealthy for us and for the planet. We need to live more simply. But how? Linda Breen Pierce shows us the way with ideas that make it possible for us to make big personal changes. But Simplicity Lessons also extends beyond the realm of the individual to consider the impact simplicity-friendly public policies would have on our communities, our countries and the world. It's not easy to make simplicity simple, but this fine book does it."
                    --John de Graaf,
                           coauthor, Affluenza:The All-Consuming Epidemic
                           and National Coordinator, Take Back Your Time Day.

"If incomes have tripled over the last half-century, but we are less happy now than we were then, perhaps we've been pursuing the wrong goals. That in a nutshell is the message of Linda Breen Pierce's delightful and insightful new book. This is a book for America to read."
                    --Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, and
                           author of Eco-Economy

"The United States now outranks Japan as the most over-worked country in the industrial world. Now Linda Pierce points the way out of the work-spend-debt-work cycle and into a world where we have time for real life. This is a very helpful, wise and timely book."
                    --Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind, and
                           The Commercialization of Intimate Life

"If you're among the growing number of people who suspect that simplicity is the road to the good life, here's your roadmap. Linda Breen Pierce makes an appealing argument for creating a simpler life-one that has room for dreambuilding. Quite simply, Simplicity Lessons is a real treasure."
                    --Barbara J. Winter, author of Making a Living Without a Job

"For anyone who is really serious about simplifying, here is your essential book; an inspirational, step-by-step guide to liberation!"
                    --Janet Luhrs, author of The Simple Living Guide,
                           Simple Loving,
                           and editor of the journal, Simple Living Oasis