Intentional Living
We affirm and support the interdependent web of all life.
— Unitarian Universalist Association, Seventh Principle.
Northlake’s Intentional Living Group formed out of our hunger for another kind of life. Some of us wanted to find a way to reclaim our hours — to make time, instead of money. Some of us wanted to learn simpler, healthier ways of living, of running a home, of feeding our families. Some of us were fed up with our indebtedness, or with our consumerism, or with the way our children knew how to find their way around a mall, but couldn’t play an instrument or write a poem. Some of us felt deep regret that we didn’t know the name of the guy who lived upstairs or next door — but didn’t know how to make connection. Most of us didn’t know exactly what we wanted — but we knew we wanted another way to be.
Although we arrived at that meeting by many different routes, we all had experienced something, read something, seen something that had changed the way we thought about our lives, our place on this planet, and our relationship to the other living things which share this place with us. We all felt a moral imperative — a spiritual imperative — to be more intentional about “walking our talk”.
The links below address, in a general way, the nature of this imperative — the question of why we must give a damn.
Websites:
- Northwest Earth Institute
- Getting A Life — Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller
Recommended reading:
- Duane Elgin:
- Donella H. Headows, et al:
- Schumaker:
- Paul Hawken:
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