🪦 What Do You Have to Show for Your Life? (True Simplicity Isn’t Simple)

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Are you one of those people who crave to drink so deeply of life, to suck its marrow out, to use Henry David Thoreau’s phrasing, that you run around like a headless chicken dying of thirst in a spiritual desert?

Are you aware of the nature, the energy of what you choose to experience—how it impacts you and, daily, directs the course of your life—or do you feel that someone or something else is directing you?

There are many pandemics in today’s world, some less imaginary than others, and of these the pathological need for ever-increasing complexity nears the top of the list.

Are apps here to make life simpler or more complicated? Are you working remotely or being worked remotely? Who’s in control here—you or forces seemingly beyond your control?

Complexity is the simplicity killer, which is a shame because simplicity usually brings long life and good health.

Simplicity isn’t simple—or at least doesn’t have to be. Simplicity can be a lifestyle choice, the result of a decision to “turn on, tune in, drop out,” as Timothy Leary nuanced Thoreau’s signature meme of marching to the beat of one’s own drummer.

You know you’ve lost your simplicity when you’ve found your busy-ness. A packed schedule is a telltale sign of decenteredness.

Goal-oriented behavior is what’s marketed, material success being the name of the game, and all the while our personal and collective stress builds, maims, and kills.

Born Mildred Lisette Norman and later adopting her famous moniker, Peace Pilgrim grew out of her early “flapper” phase of frenetic social engagement to become a well-known American spiritual teacher and peace activist.

The first woman to walk the full length of the Appalachian Trail in a single season, by 1964, carrying only a toothbrush, comb, pen and map, she had walked 25,000 miles to bring attention to, among other things, the lost life-giving art of simplicity in a world dying—figuratively and literally—of overcomplexity.

By today’s social-media-enforced standards, she might easily be considered a simpleton, as could Thoreau.

Yet how many of those sitting comfortably in virtual judgment could, or would, live such a meaningful and memorable life replete with real challenges large and small?

Indeed, how many judging “simpletons” today could even comprehend that intentional simplicity might be a far more satisfying and enriching lifestyle than their own frenzied, narcissistic pursuit of satisfaction and riches?

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