Quotes About Simplicity

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.