One of the values they have taught us is simplicity. They've said us that in a world which invites us to satisfy all our wishes, it's necessary to take away the superfluous, and to live with which is necessary.
That the rich have to live with less so the poor can live too.
The life of a human being only has sense when you use your life to help others. This is what happiness is like. We could summit this with the following words: "I was sleeping and dreaming that life was happy. I woke up and realized that life is about helping others. I started to help others and realized that helping is happiness!!!!"
We've also talked about superfluous things that are luxuries. anything that is more than we need. It isn't useful or necessary.
Commercials and propaganda have changed wishes and necessities. The wish to posses, which is a tendency with which we were born, worsened by propaganda and that's why there are people who live super fluently. They consume a lot, while we are in a situation in which we are destroying earth.
They've told us that the convenient is something that could be useful in our lives but isn't elemental. Like having a house at the beach, and like travelling by plane while you could travel by train, etc.
The necessary on the other hand are things that serve our primary needs, like housing, food, education, clothes, health, etc.
Simplicity convinces us to posses only what we need, and that someone who has less isn't poor when he doesn't want more.
Finally the indispensable is anything we can't do without, like water (and there are people who don't have water), food (there are people who eat very little and sometimes nothing), and elemental medical attention.
We have learned that when we live simple and believe in human quality, we are protecting our life, because when the life of the majority of the people is threatened, our life is threatened too.
What we need is great passion in anything we do, because we can't succeed in life, nor change the direction of our own life without a great passion.
In our life we have to help other people, in agreement with our age, and we have to live only with what we need, we have to give love to others, and we have to share generously. A simple life begins with giving love to others and with being conscious of the beauty of the world around us. That's how we will be able to learn austerity, equilibrity, simplicity and beauty.
Happiness isn't only about money, people who are free of the wish to possess as much as possible will be happy.
Being poor isn't a strength but a lack. Generosity, compassion, solidarity and freedom are strengths.
When I give I will have less, but I will feel much better. Being simple is being human, humble and near to others.