What is a minimalist life?
It's one that is stripped of the unnecessary, to make room for that which gives you joy.
It's a removal of clutter in all its forms, leaving you with peace and freedom and lightness.
A minimalist eschews the mindset of more, of acquiring and consuming and shopping, of bigger is better, of the burden of stuff.
A minimalist instead embraces the beauty of less, the aesthetic of spareness, a life of contentedness in what we need and what makes us truly happy.
A minimalist realizes that acquiring stuff doesn't make us happy. That earning more and having more are meaningless. That filling your life with busy-ness and freneticism isn't desirable, but something to be avoided.
- Leo Babauta
{this is what I aspire to}