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A Question of Simple |
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." — Albert Einstein The idea of simplicity in our lives seems to be growing in our awareness. We find that in an increasingly complex existence, simplification has an immense appeal. We seem to have too many things, and our lives become filled with clutter, both physically and mentally. Sometimes we yearn for simpler times when the world was easier to comprehend. However, as I talked about in the Haiku section, simplicity can in itself be extremely complex, e.g. fly fishing, ideograms, haiku. Most activities, if enough skill is involved, can be reached through hard effort only, where the inherent complexity is reduced to apparent simplicity. And beliefs...does one begin with elaborate formulations of thought only to simplify with study and time? Do the gods and goddesses with their elaborate history become over time the one god and then a generalized "creator" that has no corporeality of any type?
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Links on Simplicity
Wikipedias article on Simplicity http://www.gallagherpress.com/pierce/ http://www.gallagherpress.com/pierce/book-cs.htm http://www.word-works.com/simple.htm
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