Simplicity is openness to the beauty of the present, whatever its shape, whatever its lack. Simplicity, clearly, leads to freedom of soul. When we cultivate a sense of "enoughness", when we learn to enjoy things for their own sakes, when we learn to be gentle even with what is lacking in ourselves, we find ourselves free to be where we are and to stop mourning where we are not. We find that simplicity is an antidote to depression.
Joan Chittister
Here's a test: James Thurber wrote that people "Should strive to learn before they die/ What they are running from, and to, and why". Simplicity, in other words, is knowing what my life is really all about. Which of Thurber's questions are you able to answer?
Joan Chittister
Songs of Joy: New Meditations on the Psalms for Every Day of the Year
