Calm down -- Lose your baggage -- Learn to breathe -- Rusticate -- Drink tea -- Kindness will save us -- It's okay to be who you are -- Laugh in the face of death -- Generosity is contagious -- Walk in sacred places -- Parent yourself -- You are what you eat -- Move to the middle in all things -- There are no accidents -- Learn to be water -- Don't expect everything to always work out -- Think about death five times a day -- Simple is genius -- Look for magic -- See the world with your heart -- Check your ego -- Wake up

"Forced by circumstance and her rustic surroundings to embrace a simplified life, Leaming made room for more useful beliefs...This collection of stories, impressions, and suggestions is a little nudge, a push, a leg up into the rarefied air of paradise - of bright sunlight and beautiful views."