Simplicity 3b.1 . In so far as we are led towards true simplicity we will increasingly be called to dissent from a central thrust of the world we live in. Ceaselessly, advertising implores us to consume. Such a system works constantly against sufficiency and simplicity. It is our experience that true human fulfilment is not to be reached through the worship of money and all that it can buy.
Friends seek to resist the temptations to define our value by acquiring possessions.
All the same, we are drawn almost inexorably into spending more on some types of luxuries. It is, therefore, our conviction that developing resistance to consumerism is an essential spiritual practice today.