Allen Klein - The Joy of Simplicity: Insights to Unclutter and Uncomplicate Your Life

Praise for Allen Klein and His Books I am always looking for ideas that help people enrich their lives. This book does just that. I highly recommend you read itit will feed your soul, life your spirits, and help you live a fuller, richer, and more joy-filled life. SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy), author of Juicy Living Allen Klein is a noble and vital force watching over the human condition. Jerry Lewis, actor/comedian I have come to know that sometimes the simplest words can make a major difference in how people perceive and interact with their world. This book can make that same difference to you.

Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul Allen Kleins purpose is to make us feel inspired again, to bask in laughter and revel in joy. OMTimes A wonderful collection of timeless inspiration and powerful insights. Randy Gage, author of Prosperity Mind This powerful collection of quotes serves as a great reminder of simple truths and timeless wisdom that can alter our lives in a profound way. This book is guaranteed to inspire all who read it. Mike Robbins, author of Focus on the Good Stuff This book will wake you up and show you how this day may truly be the best day of your life. Kristine Carlson, coauthor of the Dont Sweat the Small Stuff series Allens writing will lift your spirit and inspire you.

Gloria Horsley, president and cofounder of Open to Hope Quotes ARE fuel for the soul, and Allen has packed enough fuel in this book to shine a light of positivity and hope that will glow for eternity. G. Brian Benson, author of Habits for Success Let Allen Klein inspire you and help you embrace and celebrate the joy in your life and in the life that surrounds you. Carole Brody Fleet, author of Happily Ever After The Joy
of Simplicity Also by Allen Klein: The Light en Up Book Positive Thoughts for Troub ling Times Embracing Life After Loss You Cant R uin My Day Secrets Kids KnowThat Adults Ou ghta Learn Change Your Life! A Little Book of Big Ideas Having the Time of Your Life The Art of Livin g Joyfully Always Look on the B right Side Wor ds of Love Mom s the Word Inspiration for a Lifetime The Courag e to Laugh The Healing Powe r of Humor Learning to Laugh When You Feel L ike Crying L.A.U.G.H.: Using Humor and Play to Help Cl ients Cope The Joy
of Simplicity Allen Klein Bestselling author of The Healing Powe r of Humor Foreword by David Kundt z, S.Th.D. Bestselling author of Quiet Mind: One Minute M indfulness Coral Gables Copyright 2020 Allen Klein Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc. Cover, Layout & Design: Morgane Leoni Mango is an active supporter of authors rights to free speech and artistic expression in their books.

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BISAC category code REF019000, REFERENCE / Quotations Printed in the United States of America For my friends Kevin and Will, whose lives were simple, yet rich.

Our life is frittered away by detail simplify, simplify. Henry Dav id Thoreau Contents I was particularly pleased when Allen asked me to write the foreword for The Joy of Simplicity because the subject matter is closely related to the books I have written. While we each take a different approach to writing, we are both on a path to help readers live a simpler, more mindful, and joyful life. What is so wonderful about this book is that Allen does so in an easy-to-read, readily digestib le format. I think you would agree with me that there is truly an enormous amount of wisdom available to people today. For the first time in human experience we can, with relative ease, access practically all the accumulated knowledge in the history of humankind.

Thats the good news. The bad? Who has the timeor even the inclination and skillsto go in sea rch of it? Thats where Allen Klein comes in; hes done so much of the wo rk for us. Allens considerable talents and training in the arts and communications make him the perfect researcher of wisdomespecially the practical kind that gives you help and insight into the ins and outs of todays challenges of living, as the subtitle says, an uncluttered and uncomplicated life. This is so because he recognizes the salient and the noble and can distinguish those categories from the ephemeral and misleading. He has the rare talent that clearly separates the wheat from the chaff. In addition, he has organized this wisdom into convenient categories that will help you in your own search for living a simpler more satisf ying life.

So, whether you decide to read it from beginning to end, enjoy one gem per day, or simply open at random and see what you get, youll always come away saying, Thank s, Allen! David Kundtz , S.Th.D.,
author of the bestseller Quiet Mind: One Minute M indfulness While writing this book, I was extremely busy. My speaking schedule was full, I was working on several other projects, and I was about to become the president of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Here I was, compiling information about how to make your life simpler and mine was getting more complicated every day. Then I started to take the advice of the quotations I was gathering. What I found was that their words helped me slow down, prioritize what was most important, and actually get more done in a calmer, more relaxed fram e of mind. It has been said that we teach what we need to learn.

Obviously, I needed to hear about the wisdom of simplicity. I learned a lot from this book. I hope y ou do too. A llen Klein
San Fra ncisco, CA
www.alle nklein.com The only thing we really have is the present. It has been said that yesterday is gone and tomorrow isnt here yet. Many of us dont acknowledge that.

We obsess over things that happened a long time ago. Or we fantasize about what might happen in t he future. Part of the problem of being present is that our world is overcrowded with things that distract us from being in the moment. We are inundated with emails, phone calls, and text messages, along with social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Insta gram, etc. At work or at home, we are often multitasking. No wonder many of us stress out.

We are asking our minds and bodies to do several things at once. And it just doesnt work well. It not only is inefficient, but it also robs us of fully enjoying what is before us. The quotation in this section by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh is perhaps the best advice we can have about being present. What he says is, when you wash dishes, wash dishes. In other words, feel the warm water, see the bubbling soap suds, smell the dishwashing liquid, and stop thinking about what happened at work today or what we will do after the dishes are done.

Along with that inspiring quotation, there are many more here to gently remind us about the importance of living in t he moment. Paradise is w here I am. Voltaire One of the ultimate objectives of attaining inner simplicity
is to learn to live happily in the prese nt moment. Elaine St. James We do not remember days, we remembe r moments. Ces are Pavese Life is a succession of moments.