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Purging thy self of desires

BehindTheScenes · 2010-09-19 00:15:29

Hi all, I'm looking to purge myself of the desire/lust for material possessions. Does anyone know of anything written about this subject? Thanks.

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19-09-2010 1:15am

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BehindTheScenes

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Hi all,

I'm looking to purge myself of the desire/lust for material possessions. Does anyone know of anything written about this subject?

Thanks.

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#2 19-09-2010 1:47am
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Alain de Botton wrote an interesting book called 'status anxiety' may be worth a read. He is also on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERfoDIU2Yw

The ancient cynics were big into simple living and self-sufficency....Diogenes lived in a barrel like a dog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism

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#3 19-09-2010 8:28am
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Gavin Flood, The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition. Cambridge, 2004

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealog of Morals. Vintage, 1989

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