Reading Archive (Simplicity)
What You See Is What You Get
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to...
Each Thing's Way
Trouble is caused by people who think they are smart enough to improve things. First they try. When there is resistance, they push. Then...
Simplicity of the Heart
Simplicity of the heart is of far greater importance and significance ...
To Know Without Needing To Understand
Usually, we search for understanding because we believe that it will lead to true...
Turning Ourselves Toward Stability And Hospitality
The Benedictine-Camaldolese monk, Bruno Barnhart says it very well: “We humans prefer a manageable complexity to an...
Honoring Complexity, Being Rooted in Simplicity
The complexity of life can mask its poignancy. The web of daily tasks and events can seem so manifold, so knotty and tangled, that the...
Beauty of True Simplicity
The clutter of our lives binds us to the precious simplicity that surrounds us and within us. Too of ten we become possessed and...
Untested Simplicity of the Villages
Is the vision of simple living provided by this village in the East the answer? Is this an example of a primitive simplicity of the...
Voluntary Simplicity
There is no special virtue to the phrase "voluntary simplicity"--it is merely a label and a somewhat awkward label at that. Still, it...
Centuries of Culture
Once there was an occasion for me to motor down to Calcutta from a place a hundred miles away. Something wrong with the mechanism made it...
True Education
It is always difficult to keep simple and clear. The world worships success, the bigger the better; the greater the audience the greater...
Dinner in Silence
[ Five or six weeks ago, we started to eat the post-meditation dinner in silence. Here is a related thought on mindful eating ... ]...
Freedom of Simplicity
Some seem to think my life dedicated to simplicity and service is austere and joyless, but these do not know the freedom of simplicity....
Simplicity
What is simplicity? These days, simplicity has become a complicated topic; some will say that it lies in having less and...