#simplicity

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all! ↗

— Elizabeth Prentiss

#christianity #faith #joy #mystery #simplicity

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#simplicity-in-life #education

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#christianity #god #identity #impostor #simplicity

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #self-awareness #simplicity #life

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #simplicity #time #love

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. ↗

— Hippocrates

#nature #simplicity #nature

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#science #simplicity #science

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#ears #eyes #hear #jesus #jesus-christ