Deepali

“We live in a world our minds build rather than actually perceiving the endless details of what is happening.”
― Daniel Goleman, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

“It's like pollution, it feels like visual mental pollution," she said. "Let's say you go to The Gap online and you look for a pair of trousers. It's not just that The Gap will follow you around on your browser for the next week. It's that those pairs of trousers that you've thought you might want -- and then decided you didn't want -- are stalking you. You're literally being chased through the internet by products that you are trying not to buy. They're trying to wear you down and make you buy them.”
― J. B. Mackinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping

“Indifference to growth is heresy among Western capitalists. Yet no-growth business makes up a large part of the economy already. No one expects their local family-run restaurant to endlessly enlarge. That same model is common among the longest-lived businesses, said Tetsuya O'Hara, a product innovation consultant who has worked with Gap Inc. and Patagonia....Japan is a hotbed for them (long lived-businesses) with nearly thirty-five thousand companies that are more than a century old, and dozens that have endured for more than five hundred years.”
― J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

“Fortunately, ideas already exist for how to achieve every aspect of deconsumer society that appears in this book. Lifespan labeling can encourage product durability: new tax regimes and regulations can favour repair over disposability, job-sharing programs and shorter work days or work weeks can keep people employed in a slower, smaller economy. Redistribution of wealth can reverse income inequality, or prevent it from worsening in a lower-consuming world.”
― J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves