- Learn to enjoy things without owning them.
- Spend time each day with positive thoughts and ideas.
- Own your personal limits.
- Share your talents and time with the community.
- Care for a plant, garden or other living things.
- Learn to live with ambiguity.
- Dress simply and neatly.
- Reject consumption patterns that breed oppression for other people or the earth.
- Find inexpensive ways to celebrate life.
- Exercise regularly.
- Help create an atmosphere that fosters contemplation.
- Develop a deeper appreciation for all creation.
- Let nothing distract you from your main goal – to seek God.
- Learn to eat sensibly and sensitively.
- Make recreation healthy, happy and gadget-free.
- Know the difference between significant travel and self-indulgent travel.
- Live now the way you would honestly like to live.
- Join with others in reshaping institutions in order to bring about a more just global society.
- Seek peace and pursue it.
- Become acquainted with different races and cultures.
- Choose work that is fulfilling and contributes to the well-being of others.
- Recycle whatever you can.
- Purchase goods that are durable, usable and beautiful.
- Make a yearly inventory of your clothes and possessions and develop a habit of giving things away.
- Practice conservation of natural resources.
- Speak from your heart.
~The Benedictines
A good way to live, whatever your faith. I received this code from a friend in 1989, and it has been a good way to live. I haven't always been able to follow all of it, but just in trying, I feel my life has had a soul-satisfying direction and purpose.
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