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Brewing the Pagan Permaculture: Voluntary Poverty

May 27, 2012 – 9:33 pm | by witchsbrew

“Voluntary poverty”  I am using the words out loud in conversation, on the bus, in the shop, with friends…  I am affirming and trying to demonstrate the possibility of living a useful and fulfilling life–a rich spiritual and material life–by embracing poverty.  What the Occupy Movement–and yes, the Fair Trade Movement–has not accepted:  in most of the Industrial World we are the 1%.  Our lifestyle is not sustainable.  We live on a finite planet with limited resources. And try as hard as we might, we cannot afford to bring the living standards of the developing world up to our standards.

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