
The Abundance of Less
Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
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Adam Riley
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Andy Couturier
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An evocative study of life in rural Japan, this inspiring book for fans of Marie Kondo proves true wealth can be found by living sustainably among life’s simple but profound luxuries
The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary—yet exceptional—men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time. Drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom and culture, these pioneers describe the profound personal transformations they underwent as they escaped the stress, consumerism, busyness, and dependence on technology of modern life.
This intimate and evocative book tells of their fulfilling lives as artists, philosophers, and farmers who rely on themselves for happiness and sustenance. By inviting listeners to enter into the essence of these individuals’ days, Couturier shows us how we too can bring more meaning and richness to our own lives.
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Constantly striving to achieve one goal after another and investing more in our careers than in our actual lives have left many of us feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and disconnected from who we are. Take Sheri Riley. She rose to the top of her field and was miserable. Sure, she was successful, but she couldn't buy peace, and material possessions didn't bring her clarity. Now an empowerment speaker and life strategist, Sheri Riley shares the secret that helped her regain her sense of self and purpose.
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I did not like this book. At all!
- De Lillie en 02-08-18
De: Sheri Riley, y otros
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The Neuroscience of You
- How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
- De: Chantel Prat
- Narrado por: Chantel Prat
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us.
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Most Annoying!
- De Amazon Customer en 02-01-23
De: Chantel Prat
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Nobody's Normal
- How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- De: Roy Richard Grinker
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma - from the 18th century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.
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Educational Trudge
- De MFreddy25 en 08-31-21
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Finance for the People
- Getting a Grip on Your Finances
- De: Paco de Leon
- Narrado por: Paco de Leon
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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We are all weird about money. Whether you have a lot or a little, your feelings and beliefs about money have been shaped by a combination of silence (or even shame) around talking about money, personal experiences, family and societal expectations, and a whole big complex system rigged against many of us from the start. Begin with that baseline premise and it’s no surprise so many of us find it so difficult to save enough money, emotionally draining to deal with student loans, and nearly impossible to understand the esoteric world of investing.
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Financial emotional distress…
- De Jack Estberg en 10-20-23
De: Paco de Leon
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The Color of Everything
- A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
- De: Cory Richards
- Narrado por: Cory Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: he’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter. But it is also the story of a tumultuous life--a stirring, lyrical memoir that captures the profound musings of a brilliant and unquiet mind grappling with the meaning of success, the cost of fame, addiction, and whether it is possible to outrun your demons.
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Best book in this genre since Into Thin Air
- De E. Vaughan en 12-04-24
De: Cory Richards
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The Witching Year
- A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
- De: Diana Helmuth
- Narrado por: Diana Helmuth
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest-growing, self-directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation, trial, error, wit, and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished, proud and powerful. Diana is eager to join them. She wants to follow all the rules, memorize all the incantations, and read all the liturgy. But there’s one glaring problem.
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Not for me
- De Moria Vulcanus en 01-06-25
De: Diana Helmuth
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Stacked
- Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management
- De: Joe Saul-Sehy, Emily Guy Birken
- Narrado por: Joe Saul-Sehy, Emily Guy Birken, Julie - Ray Harrison
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Rich. Wealthy. Well-heeled. Moneyed. Affluent. Not bad — but why not get Stacked instead? If you’ve ever dreamed of a basic philosophy of money that’ll help you live bigger, be bolder, and laugh harder, you need this book. In these uncertain times, the basics matter more than ever. But for most of us, concepts such as investing, budgeting, and getting out of debt just don’t float our boats (or 150-foot yachts) — and so we put them off longer than we should.
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Great starter book to conceptualize finance
- De Rick B en 02-15-22
De: Joe Saul-Sehy, y otros
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The Serendipity Mindset
- The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
- De: Christian Busch
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In The Serendipity Mindset, Christian Busch explains that serendipity isn't about luck in the sense of simple randomness. It's about seeing links that others don't, combining these observations in unexpected and strategic ways, and learning how to detect the moments when apparently random or unconnected ideas merge to form new opportunities. Busch explores serendipity from a rational and scientific perspective and argues that there are identifiable approaches we can use to foster the conditions to let serendipity grow.
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Interesting idea but drags on and on
- De Tatyana en 02-05-23
De: Christian Busch
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Life Reimagined
- The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
- De: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
- Narrado por: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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There's no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It's a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal.
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For the wealthy
- De A Reader en 02-03-17
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Savor
- A Chef's Hunger for More
- De: Fatima Ali, Tarajia Morrell - contributor
- Narrado por: Nikhaar Kishnani, Deepa Samuel
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the Fan Favorite of Bravo’s Top Chef in season fifteen. Twenty-nine years old, she was a dynamic, boundary-breaking chef and a bright new voice for change in the food world. After the taping wrapped and before the show aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Not one to ever slow down or admit defeat, the star chef vowed to spend her final year traveling the world, eating delicious food, and making memories with her loved ones. But when her condition abruptly worsened, her plans were sidelined.
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Outstanding story & narration
- De Lynne en 09-14-24
De: Fatima Ali, y otros
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Burning Bright
- Rituals, Reiki, and Self-Care to Heal Burnout, Anxiety, and Stress
- De: Kelsey J. Patel
- Narrado por: Kelsey J. Patel
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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When Kelsey Patel was struck by searing back pain in her 20s, she had no idea that repressed emotions could manifest as intense anxiety and physical pain. Her healing came from acknowledging the disharmony in her life, which led Patel to seek out the self-care techniques and practices that helped get her body, health, and emotions back into alignment: Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique, yoga, and other practices.
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READ THIS
- De Julietta Amazon Customer en 05-24-20
De: Kelsey J. Patel
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Soil
- The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
- De: Camille T. Dungy
- Narrado por: Camille T. Dungy
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens.
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Like medicine...
- De Broderek en 06-17-23
De: Camille T. Dungy
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Running Man
- A Memoir
- De: Charlie Engle
- Narrado por: Charlie Engle
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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After a decade-long addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, Charlie Engle hit bottom with a near-fatal six-day binge that ended in a hail of bullets. As Engle got sober, he turned to running, which became his lifeline, his pastime, and his salvation. He began with marathons, and when marathons weren't far enough he began to take on ultramarathons, races that went for 35, 50, and sometimes hundreds of miles, traveling to some of the most unforgiving places on earth to race.
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Fantastic, But One Tiiiiny Thing--
- De Gillian en 11-09-16
De: Charlie Engle
The people whose life choices and experiences the author describes are extraordinary, interesting, and worthy subjects. I so wish that I - and the world at large - could hear more!
The world would be a better place if more people lived as they have.
Real people living remarkable lives!
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What a beautiful beautiful book
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Mr. Courturier has traveled and studied Japanese. He visits all these people more than once or twice. He stays with them and visits their pottery workshops and rice fields. He describes the meals they prepare from what they have grown. Really, he loves these people, so we do also. Sprinkled through the book are poems and texts by the people in the book. It seems their lives are so full with creative projects, gardening, civic projects and reading that they don't miss TV at all. One chapter in particular had so much after-dinner intellectual chatter that I was asking, "But how do they make do on so little?" but as I am educated and very lonely, I enjoyed all the good talk. The writing is beautiful, and the descriptions exquisite. The references to religion are simply Hindu or Muslim or what faith is practiced in a particular town -- no preaching! There is discussion of aesthetics in decorating the home, in batik and in ceramics.
The author and his lady have built their own house way back in the California boonies possibly near the den of "L'il Smokey" a California Black Bear rescued from a forest fire near Redding in 2008. He was rehabbed at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care in South Lake Tahoe. After watching him play with a live fish before realizing the fish was his supper, and after following his growth on the camera, I moved to Tahoe to volunteer with LTWC. The not so little Smokey grew from 8-1/2 pounds to nearly 100. He had become a celebrity, so placement of the sedated bear in a carefully selected den was a great secret. I was told they drove "2 hours past Yreka"! A couple years later, I got a psychic reading on this bear. He was doing his bear business. So Andy, be kind to the bears! Give them the cookies!
This book is for repeated listens and worth two credits I have not met such bright people often in a long lifetime!
LIVING IDEAS FOR THE VERY BRIGHT
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Great Book!
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So much to think about
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But I was stuck cycling through habits of using disposable plastics, food packaging, takeout boxes, and coffee cups, and on. I was a shining example product of hustle culture working a fast-paced demanding job that would itch my attention deficit brain—so used to floods of information via the internet—to consume endless digital content. I was living in a dead-end junk pile. And I kept making excuses after excuses as to why minimalism was impossible, that there wasn’t a spark to light up the fire, and to be surrounded by nothing, but echoey walls just wasn’t a good enough "why".
Then... I found this book. Filled with succinctly written observations and stories of artisans, farmers and friends that the author have spent over 15 years getting to know. It covers the lives of those who adapted to living their in own way, working hard to pursue their purpose while living in tandem with nature. Including stories of some who left the city and escaped lives as office workers to live a life of simplicity and meaning. The author describes it in a way where one can easily through his eyes and experience, too, how it’s like to be there with him observing their daily life rituals. To live in peaceful existence. Rich in life and abundant in food for thought. I know I will be reading/listening to it many times over. A hardcopy of this book is now a permanent fixture on my desk.
So yea, definitely life changing! At least for me.
a life changing book!
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Excellent narration, pieces of wisdom
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an amazing, eye opening book
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I will listen again and again.
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Robotic narration
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