#896 On Wittgenstein’s Final Years

Today, as I was reading about the final years of Ludwig Wittgenstein, I am reminded that actually we need quite little to truly live on, and what we imagine to be “essential” are actually many times in excess of what we actually truly need.

How have we allowed ourselves to be blinded to such an ungodly degree? Why aren’t we content to live simply by the laws of His decree?