Reading Archive (Simplicity)
What You See Is What You Get
Annie Dillard
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 find. It was a curious compulsion; sadly, I’ve never been s...
Each Thing's Way
Ray Grigg
Trouble is caused by people who think they are smart enough to improve things. First they try. When there is resistance, they push. Then they push harder until their intentions are lost in strugg...
To Know Without Needing To Understand
Gangaji
Usually, we search for understanding because we believe that it will lead to true experience. We try to understand every experience that is brought...
Simplicity of the Heart
J. Krishnamurti
Simplicity of the heart is of far greater importance and significance than simplicity of possessions. To be&nb...
Honoring Complexity, Being Rooted in Simplicity
Richard Powell
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 deeper richness contained within them gets overshadowed, lost in ...
Turning Ourselves Toward Stability And Hospitality
David Mckee
The Benedictine-Camaldolese monk, Bruno Barnhart says it very well: “We humans prefer a manageable complexity to an unmanageable simplicity.” A complex instability is our typical ...
Beauty of True Simplicity
Jack Kornfield
The clutter of our lives binds us to the precious simplicity that surrounds us and within us. Too of ten we become possessed and imprisoned by the chains of our own accumulations. We live in fear of t...
Untested Simplicity of the Villages
Ram Dass
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 past or of an enlightened simplicity of the future? Gradual...
Voluntary Simplicity
Duane Elgin
There is no special virtue to the phrase "voluntary simplicity"--it is merely a label and a somewhat awkward label at that. Still, it does acknowledge explicitly that simpler living integrates both i...
True Education
Krishnamurti
It is always difficult to keep simple and clear. The world worships success, the bigger the better; the greater the audience the greater the speaker; the colossal super buildings, cars, aeroplanes an...
Centuries of Culture
Rabindranath Tagore
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 necessary for us to have a repeated supply of water almost eve...
Dinner in Silence
Elaine St. James
[ Five or six weeks ago, we started to eat the post-meditation dinner in silence. Here is a related thought on mindful eating ... ] "As a personal or family ritual, have a meal in silence from tim...
Freedom of Simplicity
Peace Pilgrim
Some seem to think my life dedicated to simplicity and service is austere and joyless, but these do not know the freedom of simplicity. I know enough about food to nourish my body properly, and I ha...
Simplicity
Author Unknown
What is simplicity? These days, simplicity has become a complicated topic; some will say that it lies in having less and enjoying more while others will say that simplicity is in having m...