Richard Gregg told of fretting aloud to Mahatma Gandhi that truly to simplify, Gregg would have to give up his library. Gandhi responded, "As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, you should keep it. If you were to give it up in a mood of self-sacrifice, or out of a stern sense of duty, you would continue to want it back, and that unsatisfied want would make trouble for you."
— Stephanie Mills, Epicurean Simplicity