global oneness project Live Simply It's hard work and kind of boring to be always accumulating so much stuff Joanna Macy - San Francisco, California - Eco-philosopher and Activist and filling your closets and filling your shelves and being very aware of the downside of that. We're more open, I think, to the spiritual teachings in all the religions to live more simply, to show some self-restraint. I bet some of you have gone to Gandhi's Ashram with so few possessions and the carefully polished wood in the windows and the rounded mud of the wall; that there is in doing with little an aesthetic and a liberation. I love what the Center for New American Dream is revealing about the good times that people are having as they're finding alternatives to buying and stocking up. www.globalonenessproject.org - Footage courtesy of the Pachamama Alliance