Quotes About Simplicity

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

Faith in any religion is always somehow saying that God is one and God is good, and if so, then all of reality must be that simple and beautiful too.

This new coherence, a unified field inclusive of the paradoxes, is precisely what gradually characterizes a second-half-of-life person. It feels like a return to simplicity after having learned from all the complexity. Finally, at last, one has lived long enough to see that "everything belongs,"4 even the sad, absurd, and futile parts.

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

We need to hold together all of the stages of life, and for some strange, wonderful reason, it all becomes quite "simple" as we approach our later years.

Faith itself sometimes needs to be stripped of its social and historical encrustations and returned to its first, churchless incarnation in the human heart."5

In this high place it is as simple as this, Leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. Those who come with empty hands will stare into the lake astonished, there, in the cold light reflecting pure snow, the true shape of your own face. David Whyte, "Tilicho Lake"   Conservatives

Live simply so that others may simply live.

No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.

wasn't in fact possible to strip life of its clutter for the simple reason that life was clutter.

Had I been more, I'd be more. Simple.

Yes," she said, looking off somewhere. "I want Ã¢â'¬Â¦ my own true love." Her own true love. The outrageous simplicity, modesty, and arrogance of it took my breath away. It seemed to me, then and now, a wish that everyone had a right to, but that only the very foolish or the terminally naïve trouble themselves over.

If you want to encourage someone to do something, make it easy.

The puzzle of performance becomes much simpler when the bar is visible each day.

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple.

There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, Percy is my brother? like he'd just won the lottery. Aw, Tyson, I'd say. It's not that simple.

Keep it simple.

She ended up marrying Oceanus, which was kind of a no-brainer. "Hey, you like water? I like water too! We should totally go out!

My host needs a certain level of simplicity, the goddess continued. Percy Jackson is perfect. He is powerful, yet his mind is not overly crowded with plans and ideas. Wow, I said. Really feeling the love here.

You get angry, you punch someone in the face. Simple. Direct. Bloody. Fun!

Knowing your purpose gives your life meaning, simplicity, focus and motivation. It also prepares you for eternity.

The secret of effectiveness is to know what really counts, then do what really counts, and not worry about all the rest.

Another of Brother Lawrence's helpful ideas was to pray shorter conversational prayers continually through the day rather than trying to pray long sessions of complex prayers.