Quotes About Simplicity

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

Amish recognize each others' horse like we do our friends' car.

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

And so we sat, holding hands, under the brilliant stars. Because sometimes we needed to take life one day at a time. Sometimes, we needed to slow down and dance in the meadow and watch for shooting stars with our best friends.

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

I want to live so that everything around me remains clean. I want to think about other people more. Pushing people out of the way and trying to climb over their heads are no good. Chasing nothing but money – that's no good eiher, like knocking your brains out trying to be a little more famous, a little more powerful. To hear the birds song and to say "Ah, they're singing!" To see the flowers and to say "Ah they're blooming!" That,s the way to live.

Yesterday was to me like the paper through which chemists filter their solutions: all suspended particles, all that is superfluous remains on this paper. And this morning I went downstairs freshly distilled, transparent.

Everything will again be simple, regular and limited like a circle.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......

The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn't make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.