Quotes About Simplicity

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've

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It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I wanted to tell you this, too: consciousness is a bad thing. Consciousness is a dead thing. Free yourselves from consciousness! It is high time. All that is needed is to strip off this garment: nothing very difficult about that. Tear the skin from your body, for it is not a true skin, it is a cellophane tissue that blocks the pores, that asphyxiates. Peel the tissue off, peel it off.

Jeanne Birdsall

I don't eat that much cake, but I never turn down a slice.

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The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean? Breathe more deeply, drink more water, meditate more often. Take it easy. You're not struggling to climb from hell into heaven, you're just having an in-the-body experience. It's not evil, it's just life, and when it's over, you die; easy as falling off a log.

It's very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it's not about awakening, they should change the name.

A poem by Ryokan comes to mind: Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. One of my favorites.

We should always be in pursuit of simplicity, in whatever form it takes.

3. Buy many small pleasures instead of few big ones

unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

Complexity is a universal norm, while simplicity in your life is an achievable exception.

Seeking a simpler life is not a 21st century phenomenon, nor a new-age fad, and it didn't begin in California – the desire for simplicity has been evident for centuries.

Complexity confounds and debilitates us, causing us to spend untold numbers of hours and countless sums of money to diminish or undo what perhaps didn't need to be done at all.

The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected