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"...as the world is at present, more and more things are being urged upon us, outwardly, externally.
Life is becoming more and more complex. In order to escape from that, we try to renounce
or be detached from things - from cars, from houses, from organizations, from cinemas, and from
the innumerable circumstances outwardly thrust upon us. We think we shall be simple by withdrawing.
A great many saints, a great many teachers, have renounced the world; and it seems to me that such a
renunciation on the part of any of us does not solve the problem.
Simplicity which is fundamental, real, can only come into being inwardly; and from that there is an outward expression. ...When there is freedom from beliefs, there is simplicity." The First and Last Freedom, p.88-89 |
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"Compulsion of any kind can never lead to simplicity. On the contrary, the more you suppress, the
more you substitute, the more you sublimate, the less there is simplicity, but the more you
understand the process of sublimation, suppression, substitution, the greater the possibility of
being simple.
...Simplicity comes only through self-knowledge." The First and Last Freedom, p.90-91 |
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"The desire for contentment or for simplicity is binding. Desire makes for complexity."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.60 |
